Please tell me someone remembers Google wave and the insane amount people were paying on eBay for an invitation. (Sorry, just randomly remember it when I saw Google+)

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[–] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

I'm still wishing the internet could go back to how it was in the 90's so I'm hoping it will continue to look the same in 12 years.

[–] elbarto777@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The difference is that Google+ tried to be Facebook. And Lemmy is just Lemmy.

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[–] throws_lemy 8 points 1 year ago

12 Years ago.. I've zero interested in Google+

[–] csolisr@communities.azkware.net 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Probably merged with all the other ActivityPub frontends into a single, hyper-customizable mega-app.

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[–] MrNemobody@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Google+ was too much of a copy of the existing social networks at the time.

I'm still a Google Reader orphan though.

[–] dismalnow@kbin.social 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

2013 was a terrible year for media consumption.

Google killed the only thing about Google that I had any sort of true feelings for. It was exactly what I wanted in a feed reader. It almost killed my affinity to read the news during my commutes.

It was the same year that The Onion stopped printing paper copies, too.

It was also the year The Hangover 3 was released at the request of nobody, but I digress.

RIP Google Reader.

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[–] solstice@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Hopefully more content and more simplicity. I haven't experienced much of either yet. There's tons of threads about how great Lenny is but I'm just not seeing it yet ¯\(ツ)/¯

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[–] Coeus@coeus.sbs 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just get never get any of my friends to use Google +. It was just me and a few of my tech nerd friends.

[–] SadTrain@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Any hype it had was killed by the gated access that required invites. Plus, Facebook didn't have your racist uncle on it yet. It was still fun.

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