How Apple Started A Dark Age of the Internet 

It makes me curious if there is any data that proves this though. There's probably loads, but because of how everything seems censored nowadays, I've never seen it. What are some good sources to check out that talks about that? Funnily enough, I told an acquaintance of mine the other day about my life goals and he told me that I should try LSD, as well as all the good things he's heard of it. Not that I'm going to, but I'm now infinitely curious about it.

Really ?

pog

@@spoonman9584 So, there has been some MRI imaging done recently about LSD in particular, i forget the details, but effectively what the drug seems to do is revert the brain back to a more childlike, connected state, one more akin to what is seen in early childhood when the brain is willing and ready to make all sorts of connections that it is not used to making.

Thank you so much for including Terrence, he has talked of the internet as sort of universal consciousness of our species! Loved the whole documentary man great work!

Fucking facts. Kids back in high school looked at me as the weird kid for not having Instagram or shitty snapchat

It'd funny that I (as a 2000's kid) vividly remember those rules being beaten into our heads.... right about the time when Facebook became popular. I mean to be fair, Myspace preceded it, but on Facebook it felt like people started posting _way_ more personal info and pictures than before. Funny too, since I followed those rules and ended up missing out on the early days of social media. Now that it's over, I kind of wish I'd just taken the dive...

let's be weird ones together

@@FourOf92000 ok :)

@@FourOf92000 i love you brother. Its not you. Its them.

You'll be waiting in vain for that...

Video replies were such a big thing back then

I'd be happy if they fired that vile vvoman that's running it and if they stop being so woke and censorship happy.

@@Hynotama Not gonna happen. That entire industry is the vvoke underworld.

@@edding8400 being woke is the new buisness model, unfortunately

His death marked the beginning of Apple's downward spiral.

@@lyokianhitchhiker well that's kinda true

@@khangminhlo2886 Not sure I’d that’s where it began, or it was just the point of no return while already on 1.

@@lyokianhitchhiker well apple is still creat new good things like the M1 chip and their privacy motivated moves

@@khangminhlo2886 that's just hardware man

Every day I try my hardest to step away. I don't really think I ever do though.

What am I supposed to do? How am I supposed to connect with my friends without it? I would love to delete Facebook but how would I know when my friends birthdays are?

Damn that's a really good line.

@@phoebexxlouise you buy a calender and ask them

@Læx try falling asleep in 30 minute intervals or repeatedly waking up and sleeping when tired. You can farm Dreams when doing that

I love your content too!

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Awesome seeing you here!

Always does....

Sadly the cobra effect bites back again

“A dark age of conformity…” is inevitable whenever corporations look to package, market and sell any product. This phenomenon of hyper-consumerism was ignited once tech companies realized how to weaponize capitalism disguised and advertised as innovation when in reality we are ironically enslaved.

@@stokedmtb333 they marketed the internet as a totally free market of ideas but failed to see that any free market leads to monopolies, even in the realm of ideas, but especially when your idea is physically held in server bays with very real people owning them

@@Mrmaverickism It's not really capitalism when the server owners, banks, and government itself turn against you the second you try to create an alternative, with your competitor getting subsidized by said government with billions. Don't mistake capitalism for what is in reality an oligarchy.

Yea there's some scary shit on the internet. people nowadays share literally everything about there private lives like it's completely normal. like im not even comfortable people knowing my first and last name.

that time was basically the wild west. it was fun as fuck. too bad people rather not have fun anymore

It was fun to discover, now everythings so sterile and boring, the general mindset is just less interesting

Yes; it really is harder to find anything I haven't heard of before since that time. Not impossible; just harder.

Yep.. I mark the age of the smartphone and social media craze (2012/3 - onwards) as the end of the "Internet Golden Age". That's spot on.

well, Jesus was jewish, you need to start from somewhere right?

@@strahinjatopalovic2540 lmao

You critique society, and yet you live in it?

@@nicolasvanausdale990 This guy came up with a moto and critique d society, like Nikola Tesla did he critiqued the old energy and came up with a new one

Reject animal form embrace your intellect take control

Yeah it's almost like the ones who brought things into the world they saw on "psychedelic trips" were being used by some entity.

exactly what i was thinking

@@mooilife2497 Ikr lol Alex Jones was right XD

@@shadowling77777 The people these days who fear "1984" are the very kind of people who are brainwashed by alex jones

@@MastaGambit And the people who don't fear it?

I feel like this is true for a lot of people, myself included. Looking at social media from an outsiders view is very alienating. Almost feels like we live on an entirely different planet.

Nope

Same here

No offense, but this sounds like something a narcissist would say.

That's not low self esteem, 90% of what people post, tweet, etc. don't really matter, they do it without thinking through it because if they do think they'll realise there's no real point besides the anxiety of the chance of feeling somehow liked

@@glacierlegion9439 actually the author of the video suggests taking psychedelic drugs, to be more weird. The parallels that can be drawn are literally dystopian...

Right now, being "weird" is starting a family and tightening ties to your local community.

@@glacierlegion9439 You probably need to use search to know the real meaning of this word...

@@glacierlegion9439 go outside dude. How the hell is that fascist?

@@thetechguychannel Being honest, incorruptible, having some morals, and having non-collective opinions is now also non-conformist.

When you realize he's made this exact same video in three different forms now though, it's a bit lackluster

it didn't for me :)

@@MagnaLynx21 what do you mean?

@Timothy Swindell- unless the YT algorithm is sending it to people that are chosen to see this video. Sending it to people that YT deems destined for witnessing Glink and his message/information.

When you realize it has.

@John J Keaveney YARR HARR FIDDLEDEEDEE YOU ARE A PIRATE

@John J Keaveney interesting idea

Is this whole thing an April fools’ joke? I’m genuinely confused. I had made a mean comment earlier but I realized replying here might give me a chance to interact with you directly on a personal level, so I deleted it out of goodwill remembering that content creators are people too. I don’t agree with the premise or the conclusions at all. The hippie movement did not by any means begin counterculture in America, and like other underground trends gone huge American counterculture both tolerated the movement and continued indifferently after its passing. I also found very disingenuous the way Google and Facebook’s roles in the state of things on the internet now were glossed over. The fact that someone could make such grand claims about openmindedness while blaming a single company for the modern world’s ills and failing so critically to study its roots, is staggering to me. The way Steve Jobs is lifted up in this video as anything more than a visionary businessman contributes to the cult of personality built up around him. As usual, the accomplishments of Wozniak’s brilliant engineering mind are overlooked. The fact that Jobs’ obsession with eastern medicine led him to eschew treatment for cancer and hasten his own death is a testament to the caprices of his “ideals”. The tik tok montage was the best part of the video, and I watched it several times. It genuinely opened my eyes and made me regret looking down on the app and its users.Watching those lovely young people all doing the same meme together at the same time made me realize the subtly individual spin each one put on their iteration of the meme in a way that seeing them one after the other never could. That their data is possibly being collected by the Chinese government (to what possible end?)isn’t as sad to me as the implication that someone could take the time to put together that montage, and not realize the subtlety, diversity, and creativity in what they were looking at. Even furthermore, that they instead have the gall to hold it up as an example of conformity. The sheer irony of you using an iPhone the entire time in the video... Is this all a joke? Did I get trolled hard? Or... are you actually serious?

@@447GHT The goal was never to say one company is evil or to even blame a company at all. Its true that Jobs couldn't have done it without Wozniak, but the truth is, Wozniak wasn't driven by the same vision Jobs was, infact he was perfectly happy at his job at Hewlett-Packard before Jobs convinced him to start apple. Jobs was undeniably inspired by the counterculture movement and the artists that came of it, not only that but at the same time, cyberlibertarians like John Perry Barlow who were also inspired by the movement, formed their own visions for the internet. Apple created tools for the mind, culminating into the iphone, the universal device which laid the blueprint for every other smartphone and smart device today. As a result, the internet of websites was replaced by the internet of apps. These apps have proven to be detrimental to the mental health of a growing number of people, but beyond that they have created a culture of conformity and consumerism that is larger than any other in history thanks to the accessibility of these devices. I didn't talk about Google, Facebook, or Microsoft as much because while there is a lot to say regarding their comeuppance, they didn't create the iphone and they weren't tied to the counterculture in the same way that Apple was. Im glad you liked the montage though. For what its worth, I do think I could have improved on a lot for this video and in the future I will try to do better. but the fact that you watched that far means that it was at least entertaining enough to hold your attention.

You both make good points and I wish the internet of apps that is youtube now too would allow for better discussion and discourse.

Same smh.

Same.

Ironic how it was more anonymous but more personal? I completely agree. I miss having dear relationships with people I'll never know the names of. FartKnocker69 may have had an obnoxious username but man did I enjoy his posts.

Are you a car?

@@violenceisfun991 I can't wait until this is an actual question. Imagine!

Of course it's not free, it's a market commodity.

Nothing can truly be free.

Let's all try Odysee

lol i was depressed long before social media so its funny to me, all these people commin out the woodwork with their "phone bad" ideology tryna claim that social media intrinsically causes depression nahhh bih, social media only amplifies what's already existing inside you, the goods and the bads

@@MastaGambit Not really. Apps like instagram and news apps tend to bias the posts you see in a way that prefers posts that make your angry. Anger is a very strong emotion that is pretty easy to illicit in most people and by keeping you angry at some "other" they keep you using their site.

If you think that’s what they’re doing you don’t understand tech

@@Shanboss277 No, it perfectly sums up what they are doing. People are happy to pay 40+% more money just for their phone to be a certain color despite color making zero difference in performance.

@@Shanboss277 they sold a fucking computer stand for $1000

@@funnelvortex7722 no, you’re just wrong, they have one of the best cameras, their CPU’s are also nearly the best, and the UI is the best, so no. You’re wrong.

@Me Am who even cares about cameras, why it's so important !

I mean it was... certainly interesting. "Lit", however, depends on who you ask, and where/what they visited. And god help you if you're actually gay. (I mean I guess society as a whole also rammed that shit through our heads too, but still)

@@MastaGambit "it depends" is generally true for anything. All I can say was that at that time a lot of stuff like social media, video streaming, online gaming, etc was still fairly new as being accessible to the general public. It was kind of a golden age in the sense that things weren't as tightly controlled like it is now. Lots of entities were still figuring things out. There wasn't generally a formula for everything and online didn't necessarily rule your entire existence in the way it does now for the most part. I had lots of experiences that just don't fly in today's modern internet setting. As for the gay thing, I hear ya but I went to a high school that had a fairly high number of openly gay students and they generally weren't hassled for being gay. It was still high school so it wasn't a utopia or anything but being gay wasn't an issue, we had a few trans folk there as well and this was in the midwest. I'm not trying to prove rules or exceptions all I'm saying is that from what I saw, mid 2000's internet was indeed lit.

Meh I was a 1990s internet user remember dial up

The world is a cube

@@rctecopyright yeah, 90s and early-mid 2000s were golden

Yes, the internet was for nerds not soccer moms and children (and corporations)

@@Grandmaster-Kush but the soccer moms eventually won. The same people who were afraid of the original Doom creating a bunch of hyper violent teens now dictate who gets to say what on the internet and their kids cancel you.

@@Grandmaster-Kush Only a really unimaginative person would think that.

Tf is cancel culture? In the 80s conservatives try to ban rap music, I call that real cancel culture. In the 90s and 2000s they tried to ban video games. Give me a break.

@@ceoofsony5924 today’s cancel culture revolves around individuals and brands compared to cultural movements. The Republicans of the 90’s didn’t specifically hate pac and biggie, they hated the entire genre for “glorifying violence” or some stupid shit. Nowadays an individual can be branded as an ist solely because enough people think that individual is an ist. Cancel culture is about a collective of equally ignorant people slandering a person or thing they do not like, solely because they think they are “problematic” and not in line with their own beliefs.

Great comment

Wasn't it just different because WE were different? Or is it really that the fabric of the net has changed?

@@transsexual_computer_faery Yeah the internet is sort of downstream of culture. An amplifier of the current culture almost.

@@More_Row oh yeah, that too

@@transsexual_computer_faery the fabric has unfortunately changed. It feels like innovation takes second seat to monetary gain.

Can't even arrange icons on iPhone as you want, let alone that..

Apple is still about Privacy they Track you less than Google on Android

@@IcidLink Nice PR.

@@IcidLink They do it and rely on other companies like google and facebook to get the data they need. While yes, i do believe Apple gave better privacy, if you use other apps that doesn't, its pretty useless. I won't blame you since people who critize this kinda thing still relies on their Android/iOS phones, windows pc and other things.

Wave goodbye to your favorite NSFW Discord server!

Gen z is too lazy to do anything 😂 we can barley work

@@bruno_kunda Nice essay, but what you are saying here isn't actual fact it just sounds like your personal sadness and frustration.

@@bruno_kunda i feel where you are coming from ..you made some great points for discussion

Imagine thinking the internet was a secret club in 2012. Next, you're going to complain about good songs only having a couple million views.

@@user-vi4xy1jw7e what do you think of this quote “Love is when you have a 9am the next day and you stay up talking to them till 7am anyway because you just like their company and existence so much”

Absolutely. Most of the stock I own is psychedelics, but that brings more concern than anything as they may be overused like opioids, synthetics are preferred since you can't patent the mushroom, and a lot of people risk triggering schizophrenia/vision disorders from their use. Like weed, it can end up used for pleasure and traumatize someone unprepared.

@@GibsHaberdashery yes I’m also scared that it gets worse for society and we End up with a Society that is constantly on Drugs because People can’t cope with reality anymore any other way. And than we have to deal with all the negative things that that brings like having People with even more Aggression because some Drugs can make them even more Aggressive. The Worst case would be a World like in Altered Carbon where People mostly from the poorer classes do Drugs, Partying and consume Entertainment all day because there is (they see) no other purpose for them in Life.

@@IcidLink drugs have been a part of human history since before we were recording it. theres nothing new under the sun, try not to be so alarmed about everything

This needs to be pinned.

Yep, been there. Had a 10 hour bad trip and it took years to come "back". Had anxiety for over a decade from it.

there also were trolls and professional a-hole types that were bred from the forum scenes . they were more rare but they were out there . there are people out are such huge zeros they have nothing else then to tear others down . these are the people who never have anything to share that they put their necks out for or worked hard for . these are the new satans and they are everywhere . its simple for me ... be nice . 2 words . if someone is a dick well they should be banned immediately . do not tollerate cruelty / evil .

Just wondering what will be the next big thing for people like us.

Problem is, it is hard to live a normal life today without using social media. I mean, youtube is social media for example. Not using social media is a huge handicap for yourself on many occasions.

@@peteytwofinger trolls are the least important factor that make social media problematic. The whole narcissistic culture of people wanting to show themselves as always happy and interesting (which ultimately depresses them) is far more serious.

@@maximrukinov3101 Off grid

Now as basic as it gets.

Because profits come first in these dealings

Apple is slow.. not good... lol. You kids are so clueless.. look up port royal benchmark.. that is the top benchmark software. its all intel, kid.. fact, i win

@@AntiquatedApe where are the profits in virtue signaling?

@@dertythegrower cringe

GREAT point man.

I'd rather not feel bored, thank you very much

Agreed. I purposefully don't take my phone with me when I take a shit. It's a meditative experience.

@@Ub3rSk1llz I just don't take it because I don't wanna get germs on it. It's hardly a meditative experience when your body is in pain from trying to get the shit out.

If I get bored my mind goes to places I'd rather it didn't.

Anyone who'd be surprised definitely should do so.

The problem is how to convince people of doing that. The internet has a huge grasp on today's society, to the point where some people would probably go crazy without it. And it gets extra hard when all the companies, marketing people, influencers all converge and make people think this way of living is the only way of living, and if you don't, well, you are not cool and shit.

People would rather watch others go outside on social media than do it themselves. I think that builds a sense of self doubt in a lot of soc media users. "Oh I could never do what they do", if you will. Self doubt is a huge problem now a days, and people are aware of it. They just choose to do nothing about it but make "relatable" memes and post about how trash they are. Hell that tiktok song in the video was a perfect example.

@@alexandrerodrigues9844 it's our digital mother

Thanks. Not sure why, but your comment prompted me to take a long walk, which is kinda rare for me. Definitely felt good. I was planning to just heat up a pizza once I got back, but now I wanna opt for actually cooking something.

Then proceeds to watch 18 other videos.

@@ipsofacto4313 and consuming 50 ads

“I think I need to delete all my social media” was all I was thinking about through this video.

It’s not that the iPhone is bad in much the same way social media isn’t bad, it’s what you do with it. I use RU-vid to watch videos that expand my knowledge and understanding about things I’m interested in and I use some social media to discuss things with a few friends. The problem is letting these platforms to warp your perception on the world and being able to discern bullshit when you see it

@@Suba932 jokes on you i use YTvanced

Thankd man, also im glad your channel blew up, inspiring knowing how hard you worked to get there

@@GlinkBetweenWorlds Thanks! I'm actually only 9 days away from hitting 10 years of daily uploads right now!

Every time RU-vid has "imporved" something they've only helped to make my experience less and less pleasant. Even things as benign as just changing a button's placement on the page. I mean fuck stop "improving" shit like that. Imagine you go from the 2021 Corolla to the 20222 model and they're like "yeah We know you got used to shifting from the floor and activating the turn signal with the left side lever, but we decided to switch both up and now you're gonna have to shift from the steering collumn (I know it used to be a thing, don't @t me.) and turn the turn signal on using the floor lever." and then the 2023 model is like "yeah we decided to put the turn signal directly on the door now and if you wanna put your turn signal on you just gotta have to press the new pedal we implemented." Constantly changing your site's layout for micro improvements that never actually made the site more ergonomic just served to drive people insane.

He didn't say which fossil he chose though :(

"Wah wah, I can't say the n-word without being criticized and oppressed by the mob rule, wah."

@@ajiththomas2465 as you make this comment, there's people in the american senate trying to pass laws to make any form of encryption illegal. Did you even watched the video? Free speech is being killed and you are making jokes.

@@123100ozzy Funny, who is it in the Senate again that claim that they're pro-1A yet they continue to support the Patriot Act and up our obscenely and excessively large military budget? Also, criticism is not the same thing as censorship. Grow some thicker skin.

@@ajiththomas2465 stop being delusional. Did you even watched the video of the comment section you are in now? Google "see something say something act". It's not about thicker skin, it's about the state against the freedom of the individual to feely express himself. If you think this isn't an issue you are part of the problem.

@akamaro20 And your lack of any real counter argument is telling. A boot licking reactionary sheep detected.

animal collective have some awesome songs (although that one was a cover of them). check out brothersport and fireworks by them

Fall Be Kind is a hella underrated AnCo release

Although they don't have much mainstream appeal, there's a reason they're one of the most recognized artists in the indie scene. Check out Merriweather Post Pavilion and Strawberry Jam. They're pretty good.

And the whole world is a cube too

@@alvin_row Feels & Meeting Of The Waters are also super underrated.

Adapting exclusively to phones is bad.

Facebook is almost unusable on desktop these days, it’s a react powered behemoth with a mobile interface that uses 80% cpu when you move your mouse

@@kyconny - several websites became hard to use after they redesigned, seemingly to optimize for mobile use. In most cases, browser extensions exist that restore the old look of the site. I couldn't use twitter without my old look extension. But for whatever reason, facebook really clamped down on any extension that saught to restore the old look, they kept killing any one that appeared within days. So i don't use facebook anymore, i used to use it daily but since their latest redesign, I've used it about 3 times. I have no clue why they won't even let people choose to see the site in a way that works on desktop.

@@WorthlessWinner Because the new designs implement new way to see ads that were not in the previous one. Each app that restores the old design would also remove that, meaning less data collected.

@@WorthlessWinner mobile ruined internet on so many different levels, I can barely start to list it.

To go against the grain, there needs to be a grain.

It still is. You just need to search harder.

@thertx1000 I don't use twitter but trolling imo is the only legitimate use for it. If for no other reason than to ruffle the feathers of the outrage mob.

I’m quite normal besides my Love for Videogames and Anime probably (what is now a really common thing) I don’t know really how you should be individual? Wearing Silly outrages Clothes? This is something already the e-boys on Tik Tok do! Wearing Gaming and Anime Shirts? Make your own clothes? Listening to weird music? Hmm how you can be totally individual in our Society today?

@@IcidLink I think you're going about it the wrong way. Being an individual is not about rejecting what everyone else does, it's about doing what you want to do regardless of other people's judgment. So if you want to make your own clothes, go for it, and if you want to listen to weird music, go for it. But you should not do it just because it's not what others do, nor should you try to impose your tastes and ideals into others.

Yeah now everybody is trying to compete for clout.

I was just thinking that. It almost seems like another universe now.

It's funny how them trying to rid the Internet of "toxicity" just created more of it.

Ppl were more chill in general....

There was a time like that? If there was, it most certainly had to have been before 2007 because I remember even back then there were bullies and haters online.

The only thing I can think of is that it used to be okay to be openly racist and homophobic online. And that’s not okay anymore. As it should. Although, republicans get lots of shit online for simply being a republican. Which is obviously not okay.

@@IkWeetHetOprechtNiet At no point was I complaining about not being able to say the gamer word or whatever. I'm complaining about spaces that were altogether politically moderate or politically free being infiltrated and ruined by those who brought it there, be it left or right. In many places you are censored for not having the correct opinion or saying the wrong thing, and it does not need to be homophobic or racist for that to happen. It stifles discussion and creativity in communities because if a person says or does the wrong thing, even accidentally, their ideas are discarded even if they have merit. Yes, back then some people said racist things, some people said homophobic things, but imo the sharp reaction has been worse than the bigotry, and I say this as a black person.

@@bb-anon6746 I haven't really seen any space like that yet tbh

@@devcron7041 Sadly, I have, i've literally had to leave a certian forum for the reason of having the wrongthink. and before you try to guess the stereotype, let me tell this: I am a leftist.

memes are still funny

Don't forget Instagram

So basically avoid all of social media

Step 3: Stop using Reddit

@@thatguysixx besides youtube

@@YourFatherVEVO Or 4chan for that matter

appreciate that

I once was away from internet for a 10 days. No smartphone or computer, just 10 days reading books and sleep. It was so weird, i felt absolutely disconnected from the world and i loved this. What a shame i cant really live without technologies being software engineer and musician. I wish one day i can hide in the cabin and never go back to the world

It's having access to the internet while you're outdoors that's the problem. Personally, even when I had a smartphone, I didn't use the internet on it. I've always stuck to the old school only using the internet when I'm at home, on my PC. When I'm out and about, I don't even think about the internet. I have known people who are addicted to the internet though and they've told me that they need to use the internet, even when they're outdoors, or else they start getting anxious. It's sad that smartphones have created this mentality.

I don't really NEED the internet, and I think most people don't as well. But certain behaviors have been strengthened by apps and the like, to make it seem like you can't go without them for even a day. Like you're going to miss out on stuff. I certainly get this a lot here on RU-vid, which is probably my main source of time wasting. I watch a lot of RU-vid content and I follow really good content creators, and after a few days I feel like I need to catch up on so much stuff and that makes me want to watch as much as possible. I think the same goes for any other thing on the internet if you dwell on it for long enough. I think the secret is realizing that it's not really necessary, and the things you think you can't live without aren't exactly that essential. I probably need to manage my time spent on the internet more efficiently and start cutting out some that time wasted on mindless entertainment and read stuff or practice new skills.

@@joshy-noha I can relate. I am big on self help and business content on RU-vid and I always get this FOMO that I need to watch the next video to make my life better. And click bait titles like "must watch" doesn't help either.

But why? The only time i use internet on a phone at all is when i go out of town and i just used it instead of computer, mostly for stuff like printing plane tickets and whatnot. Just use a desktop dude. A proper one, that you have to sit down and use it. That way youll only use it if you actually need to.

This. I feel exactly this. For a while I've been reading books, getting into nature, doing puzzles, trying to cure my social anxiety... not to "prove" I'm better than anyone or anything, but just because the internet isn't what it was and just being around it (and feeling the difference) has been making me so depressed. I didn't really notice it until lockdown. I was only born in '01, but have older siblings and was pretty "net precocious". I really miss the old internet. This video finally helped me realise why I used to be able to surf the web for hours, and each day felt new... but now? I can barely stay online because it's so draining and upsetting. Things just feel out of place, I can't explain it. It's so weird trying to get offline, go outside... only to find "no one" there... so where am I supposed to go now if I want human connection?

Just try the Mastodon that captures the Vibe of the old days quite good. Mostly nice People there not many idiots

@@N3ONLUV Try Mastodon it’s a decentralized Social Media site by a nonprofit organization so no Ads and mostly no Hate there are a lot of nice People there

@@IcidLink Yeah sure, no hate... until more people start using it 😏 isnt that the way it always goes?

@@N3ONLUV You seem like an incredibly deep human. We need you. Find local community groups, they exist. They exist everywhere. I found a group of late 20 somethings who gather every week for food and activities. They're a little religious but nothing crazy. Go find a group like that, if you have good intuition you'll run into the right people.

you're totally right. Jobs wasn't a good engineer or designer, but he was great at selling his designs.

Man what hasn't Linus Torvlads done. I am new to Linux and am blown away by its simplicity and consistency.To randomly find out about the creator's incredible but under-discussed contributions and achievements every now and then, is crazy. Its almost like he's the Nikola Tesla of the IT world haha

Excellent comment - I agree with pretty much all of what you said. I know of several cases of people who used psychedelics and basically went nuts - one friend was convinced that he was the reincarnation of Jim Morrisson after talking to some lady in a chat room who said "his aura matches yours," while a couple of others renamed themselves bizarre hippy names like Astro Turfburger, and became too spaced out to be much fun for me to talk to. Another friend actually received disability for mental disabilities caused by LSD use - he apparently suffered auditory hallucinations permanently, among other things.

@@myblacklab7 You're absolutely right, psychedelics (and generally anything that significantly potentiates your brain chemistry) should not be taken uncontrolled by people with certain pre-existing conditions, whether those are diagnosed or not is irrelevant. I suppose my defense here is that whatever psychedelics your friends used exacerbated an underlying issue more than being the direct cause. All the more reason for legalization, leading to adequate controls and research. Glink's commentary comes off as one without any significant first hand experience with psychedelics, and used more as an convenient allegory. I say this as someone who has tried most under the sun, guided many people though their own first-time experiences and with a doctorate in organic chemistry.

@@ElSuperNova23 How many people do you know who have been permanently altered by psychedelics? I bet the answer isn't "zero." Psychedelics are an attempted shortcut at enlightenment - they provide some perspective, perhaps, but everyone I know who is or has been into psychedelics is sort of a cliche of faux enlightenment, like people who took an introductory philosophy class on metaphysics and think they're privy to some grand spiritual knowledge now. Psychedelics are ultimately debilitating. They aren't a thing where they'll definitely screw you up for life, but they're Russian Roulette for your brain.

Ha! First boiii!

Im so excited for this, dude! You're one of my favourite content creators.

@John J Keaveney im starting to

@Thorne tru

glad to see more glink content !!!

>telegram

imagine using meme arrows

@@Kevzz2srs Imagine calling them meme arrows instead of greentext

@@Thebossstage1 greentext outside of the secret club

@@babitz0r yeah, I know, not perfect, but I couldn't find a better alternative at the time (Signal didn't have enough features) and better to have privacy by policy than none at all.

Appreciate that, I pushed myself to make something I can be proud of and more importantly to have an impact on people. Seeing comments like this brightens my day.

@@GlinkBetweenWorlds okay so you spread a message, which is a good thing. We do have a problem. But how do we solve this problem? There should be a place to think about this problem. What if we had a moderated discord or forum somewhere where people could post ideas. You could pin good idea's and then maybe people could add their opinion on it. We can do anything as humans, we are very smart. We just need good teamwork. And that's something we don't have on the internet. We have random idea's, often very good, thrown in the huge sea of youtube or tiktok or whatever. But we never truly think together about this idea. For example, you have an amazing video about a huge issue, I think about it later today and then I just forget about it. But if we had a focused group thinking about the idea, maybe we could find a solution, together.

@@GlinkBetweenWorlds I may just be one, "currently barely getting by financially so not even a patron" voice among the masses, but I'm HARD seconding the above comment; this video really did have an impact on me. The line you drew along psychadelics and their public perception was itself sort of an epiphany for me. I have been wanting to try psylocibin for a few years now, and am borderline infuriated by my lack of connections allowing me to do so. Not saying you were wanting the ultimate takeaway here to be "get out there and take shrooms, kids," but that part specifically really tied it all together for me. Jobs may never have had a fraction of the impact he did if not for his own experience with psychadelics. I can't even begin to imagine the possibilities if it were to become more accessible for people like me, who see what Apple and companies like them have become and how they have utterly ruined so many aspects of our lives, and tricked so many into going along with it. As for me, I have no idea what my options are, but you have inspired me to try a whole lot harder to find my own solution to these problems. If there is indeed a light in this darkness, I intend to find it and share it with as many people as I possibly can.

@@GlinkBetweenWorlds keep it up 👍🏽

Internet 2 baybee

Finally someone who isn’t all pessimistic about things Just because the world sticks now doesn’t mean it will forever And really compared to the past the world sucks a lot less

@@DogsRNice The world hasn't taken a toll for the worst, our outlooks have.

it's impossible, the internet's being taken too seriously now

@@raffandbotnik Times change, people change, mindsets change, but that take time to do. I do feel optimistic that one day we this dark game will end, but it won't be anytime soon.

agreed. It's worth mentioning that out of the hippie movement came more devoted spirituality like the Jesus movement. In many cases, hippie experimentation simply acted as a prompt for people to seek truth and wisdom.

Fair enough. Of course I didn't include every aspect of Steve Jobs in this. I dont expect everyone to fully agree with my perspective, or else it wouldn't be mine!

@@GlinkBetweenWorlds Thanks Glink, it is important to maintain individualism like you point out in this video. Everyone should have disagreements or else we will be conforming into a hive mind.

This stuff is common knowledge at this point. It wouldn't add anything of relevance to the point the video was making.

Yeah the psychedelics point kinda came out of left field

I don’t always respond to comments but I do read them, so thank you for commenting and Im glad you enjoyed it!

He was never following trends.

He is the trend.

Don't be too pessimistic about it. You can always just not use the apps. Use them however you want.

@@axelnick1 The problem with that is regardless of me not using, everyone else who I talk to use it. Even if I'm not exposed to a certain kind of culture, if everyone I know is then not that much really change, except for me.

@@ramontavaresdacruz2256 Yeah, that's why I don't talk to many people in my own age group. I know they get a bad rap, but I get along best with boomers, especially biker boomers, because most of them are totally disconnected from today's popular culture.

You get the tallest guy you can find, i'll get the tallest woman i can find and then let's make them fight in a shopping centre. Who ever wins gets to keep their fingers

@@violenceisfun991 name checks out

@@violenceisfun991 I like the way you think >:)

@@violenceisfun991 what the hell

Purchasing a sports car at 23? Are you frok united arab emirates?

That supra yours? XD

@@Sean-ct8cv yeah I have a 2020 red supra :D

@@HaohmaruHL from the US, wisconsin

@@duck8280 wow good stuff ^_^

Right! It’s like a sociology lecture but it’s visually interesting and well written and edited..his voice is pleasant..

RU-vid didn't exist untill 2005 when it was a dating site. What are you talking about?

@@WAncouvOR Around the time of 2007 to 2009 is what I meant.

I wish I grew up in a time where this piece of shit internet wasn't around in the first place.

@@dividedstatesofamerica2520 it sounds crazy but I wish I was born in the mid 40s, I feel like they were the last generation to live freely (in England anyway). There was the hope after the war. The way that England pulled together during the blitz is crazy when you compare it to how people have complained through lockdown.

@@lolaa6971 Word up.

@@lolaa6971 Nah, you would have spent your best years in the thatcher era hell.

@@StrazdasLT THANK YOU GOD i'm so sick and tired of all these know-nothings around here acting like they were born in the wrong generation or some shit

They are definitely connected

Perfect comment

It really comes across as more of a millennial viewpoint than a zoomer viewpoint. Zoomers either shill for the current state of the Internet or don't acknowledge it because all they know is the smartphone era of the Internet.

Queensryche IMI if I'm not mistaken

Do you have anything else to provide?

@@funnelvortex7722 And then there's us Zillennials who were too young to experience the 2000s internet for the most part but too old to care about TikTok.

Do we really need to do all that age separation stuff? o.o

A culture based around the free consumption of psychedelics still sounds better than our current culture based upon prohibition and control.

@@cultofthevoid5677 every culture tends to encourage and discourage certain things, the point is why. Why is alcohol and coffee so ingrained in our society while psychedelics aren't? It's because one is less interesting for the goals and objectives of our society, coffee helps wake up at certain times focus on work, alcohol helps you forget about your problems for a moment and socialize, but psychedelics make you reevaluate your own goals, detaching you from the work-consume cycle, not that it can't be productive, but our society is still focused on creating and maintaining worker-bees since pretty much the advent of schooling, and psychedelics present themselves as opposite of those goals. If our society's main goal was actually the well being of individuals in the society, we most certainly wouldn't have a culture so focused on alcohol consumption rituals, one of the most destructive and easy to over consume drugs out there.

@ayy lmao I wouldn’t go as far as to say psychedelics are essential and a human right, but I will say that it’s a human right to be able to consume them as you wish. The government should not be able to dictate what I can and can’t do with my mind and my body. I’m not even particularly progressive overall, I just think this is so obvious and so ridiculous.

Maybe ill be called crazy, but Im fascinated by the idea that the events of the bible are a template of events in history that replay themselves in various ways throughout time

Odd how one hears different stories to explain the same phenomena. I heard it was the apple that put Snow White in the glass box, and that the rainbow was a subtle indication of unashamed homosexuality, and that both of those symbols related to Alan Turing and his demise.

@@NajwaLaylah Simple fact is the rainbow wasn't associated with gays at the time. That's a very contemporary development.

That's wrong. That garden of eden imagery is a coincedence along with "representing god's grace" and other theories after a quick google search. Rob Janoff who created apple logos (besides the 1st logo designed by Ronald Wayne) dismisses these theories -check CNN link 7th paragraph. The articles "Apple Logo Evolution - It all Started With a Fruit" by The Logo Creative and "Did Alan Turing Inspire the Apple Logo?" by Stacy Conradt at Mental Floss and "Unraveling the tale behind the Apple logo" by Holden Frith at CNN explain the origins and other theories. The apple logo is simplistic because Steve Jobs wanted a new logo that could be recognised when it was small unlike the previous 1976 Isaac Newton logo. "The Apple II was the first home or personal computer that could reproduce images on the monitor in color. So it represents color bars on the screen." - explaining why the 1977 logo had stripes on it. thelogocreative.medium.com/apple-logo-evolution-it-all-started-with-a-fruit-e976427f5292#:~:text=The%20first%20logo%20was%20created,with%20his%20discoveries%20on%20gravity www.mentalfloss.com/article/64049/did-alan-turing-inspire-apple-logo edition.cnn.com/2011/10/06/opinion/apple-logo/index.html This was to not spread any misconceptions. Have a good day:)

I think it might be a collective unconscious thing.

The old message could be inspirational but don't forget it was just an add to sell a product Steve jobs has always been in favor of proprietary things like software this is the reason he got fired for apple. (or put aside whatever you want to call it) after having a big disagreement with John sculley that was in favor of open architecture The only time he gave up this mentality were when he went back to apple a few years later and microsoft made an investment of 150 million on apple but as we all know it didn't last long.

It could be a reference to his all fruit diet as apple is usually the first fruit to come to mind when thinking of fruits

Yes just look at the logo... closely...

thats my favorite thing to do

Where do I find like minded people. I'm tired of being alone.

@@tehparol same. I quite literally don't have any real friends. And this covid situation just made it worse.

@@tehparol join Glinks Discord!

Not really

Yeah uhh not really asking idk what you meant by this comment

Nice job missing the point of the video

Most of my internet usage is either RU-vid or browsing through Wikipedia. I remember say a decade ago where there was much more to do than there is now. Sad to see it all mostly gone.

so youre one of the folks who peaked in highschool?

It seemed we were reaching a higher collectivism in the mid to late 90s. It feels society could NOT fall save an intergalactic event we had no way to control. The terrorism attacks of the late 90s should've been a wake up call.

@@StrazdasLT sounds like it

@@kylehill3643 lol. Collectivism? In what country? America? Lololol

Not well researched though, at least not the Steve Jobs bit.

@@StrazdasLT care to explain?

PCs are still mostly fine and free. It's all categories of devices other than PCs, that have a more casual audience than them, that have been getting more and more controlled and constrictive.

@@happysmash27 But it has still spilled over. I can't get half my old games to run even via emulators it's a big pain. For example Zoombini's Mountain Rescue no longer works and it did a year ago. On Dad's AMD computer it still works so obviously something to do with Intel changes going on. Intel has been in a LOT of trouble after major F'[ks which they got caught in.

underrated comment!

Let's hope we get a tech Jesus to save us from the situation we put ourselves in.

you know some sects of christianity claim that god promised to redeem adam and eve after 5500 years. The coming of Jesus Christ was supposed to be that making the planet 7500 years old.

@@StrazdasLT I did not know this

@@StrazdasLT I feel like I'm stalking you through this thread, sorry guy

I instantly thought of the parallels to society after learning about the mouse utopia experiments, creepy perspective

I think I saw some Stein's Gate too :3

@@N3ONLUV yeah, with John Titor

Yeah, he really marketed the stuff other companies created so well.

If we're really going to argue who was better at MARKETING, you'd be fucking ignorant not to say Gates. Gates and Jobs practically did the same fucking thing, just in different ways, and one of them was just more haughty and stuck-up about it than the other. In reality they were both jackasses.

​@@MastaGambit One died with a legacy, the other ruined his own legacy by being a hypocrite at most of his statements.

I was in much the same boat growing up. It's strange how quickly stuff like being a 'nerd' or recluse went from making you the laughing stock to becoming the norm and touted as "relatable". The internet wasn't as friendly back then - RU-vid comments literally being deemed the scum of the earth - but it doesn't seem like the price paid for the inclusivity was worth it.

@@name347 Yep. If you accept everyone, this "everyone" is going to throw you out, directly or indirectly.

@@name347 It is still the pond scum of the earth. Well not quite bad as 4chan, but still pretty bad.

@@name347 People who think nerds are "relatable" dont actually know what the word means.

It's interesting to see so many things boomerang back. Even things I was made fun of in the late 2000s/early 2010s have became oddly really mainstreamed. Sometimes i dont really know how to take it, if it's good that people, for example anime, are able to be more open to different forms of media, or if its just all becoming some big sludge pile of entertainment we consume so rapidly through and tear at. The way alternative styles of fashion I see online after years of refreshing tags and still getting things from the mid 2000s to this resurgence of certain keywords. It seems like everything just is used over and over again, or maybe now there is a want to be different, even in the face of conformity and driving the 'herd' forward in your difference.

That's why I hated the psychedelic angle in this video. I can't stand those insufferable hippies.

I like this comment

Yeah, I could never get into psychedlics, one because I was born very premature and it would absolutely wreck my health, and two, I have mental health issues already and it would most likely exacerbate that. So yeah, no, drugs aren't for me. Probably not even weed. As tough as it is and as much as it hurts, I'd rather face the world and my problems sober. I don't want to cower away from them and end up creating more problems for myself by using them like so many of my family members have. I know not all drugs will lead you to get addicted to them, but there are so many people who end up severely addicted to them, and despite certain drugs having medical or mental benefits sometimes, I feel like mostly it's just a way to escape your problems. I'd rather not do that, I've got enough problems as it is.

There were a lot of "hippies" who acted like they were part of the scene, but they really just used it for "grass & ass".

I am not really pro psychedelics exactly, I would rather want people to try it atleast one or two times, but even with this mindset, it was a honestly bad part of the videos imo.

One of the fathers of modern computing, he mustn't be forgotten.

this video could have really done without the Jobs propaganda in the first half.

That's like saying Christianity was invented by Emperor Constantine and not Jesus Christ. It is technically true but extremely ignorant of the reality of how big ideas stick...they need a great salesperson. Sometimes the engineer is also a good salesperson (e.g. Bill Gates) but not always. Branding is everything.

@@JohnDoe-jk3vv It's OK if it's bad, as long as it is *true* . Delivery can always be improved. Truth is eternal. Branding matters more than substance when it comes to popular acceptance unfortunately --whether it be religion or technology.

@@JohnDoe-jk3vv That is a terrible straw man! If you reread my statement you will see that I am comparing the *adoption of Christianity by a mass audience* to the *adoption of Apple technology by a mass audience* . What is being compared is how people accept the products of both institutions, not the institutions themselves! Jesus Christ and his disciples created the tenets of the religion yet it required a Roman Emperor to indoctrinate all of his subjects and consequently the rest of Europe for centuries to come. The Early Christians did not even refer to themselves as Christian--it was the Roman outsiders who did! Likewise: Wozniak created the Macintosh. If you know the story well you would know that he did not want to sell his invention! He did not even want to quit his job at Hewlett-Packard! He tried to sell the invention to his bosses at HP so that he could keep working there and they found it to be useless. Steve Jobs convinced him otherwise and forced him to quit to focus on building computers full time. That is the reality of popular adoption.

​@@JohnDoe-jk3vv As an engineer I hear you and have to say you are wrong. Every patent office (in a developed nation at least) makes a distinction between utility and design patents, ie you can be an inventor if you engineered something new (utility) or you can be an inventor if you created a new brand or look (design). You can bet Wozniak's name is on the utility patents for his inventions but the design and branding of the Macintosh belongs to Jobs! It sounds mean, especially coming from an engineer's perspective, but that's reality. It has been that way since the inception of the US Patent Office and many other similar institutions around the world. Another note: science and discovery are ultimately about communication. It doesn't matter if you independently discovered calculus before Newton if nobody knew about it (wink wink Leibniz). Of course that's not a perfect example because Leibniz's notation is more widely used today but still -- the people that can convey and disseminate an idea are as important if not more so than those who serialize it in a process or product. As engineers we tend to believe *engineer* and *inventor* are synonyms when they are not. One is a "constructor of engines" the other literally denotes a "discoverer" or someone who "makes up things others have not". Da Vinci never even attempted to create most of his inventions and yet... It may suck to say it but Steve Jobs was an inventor, just not an engineer. Wozniak was both.

Back in the day, none of us knew who Jobs was. Woz was the man at Apple.