There's a very good reason it died: aside from what's been mentioned there's the fact that throughout the tech industry, cool nerds got snuffed out via a combination of nerd crack and the wagie workforce grindset mentality. But most importantly it's the feeling of malaise from management.
You could be around this cool, high end tech. You can't tell a soul about it because it's under a (((NDA))) (turns out my last job fucked up the signing part of it LMAO). Not like you can ever dream of messing with it when it's retired, it's gonna go right into the cloud server thing to do cloud shit, and then to a secure scrapping site (so it doesn't end up like the "Chinese XDKs" did back in the day where they just had the ethernet ports ripped out.) You will never make it run games recompiled like the dudes who got SPARCStations and SGIs for "the price of shipping" or from the ewaste pile back in the day could, or force it to run your Pleroma instance. You will serve your wagie master, make the thing work, and do it with shit hours.
This is exactly what a previous job of mine was like, and don't get me started on the guys who work in a big company, make something cool, it gets shitcanned, and then they never do anything afterwards (likely because of (((non compete agreements))) as well).
Management isn't about cool nerds trying to do cool nerd things. It's about roasties and old boomers who want the line to go up infinitely. Big tech companies are like 90s Apple or 00s Sun or similar declining tech companies, where you hear about some really cool idea that was something that really ahead of it's time, and killed by boomers in management who didn't want to take any sort of risk, and then the risks they take are for shit nobody asked for like the Fire Phone.
Meanwhile there's fewer autists like the guy building a semiconductor fab in his garage, and more doing nerd crack, gooning on vrchat/gmod/sl/similar, and trying to speedrun getting you removed from a chat for some minor thing.
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You could be around this cool, high end tech. You can't tell a soul about it because it's under a (((NDA))) (turns out my last job fucked up the signing part of it LMAO). Not like you can ever dream of messing with it when it's retired, it's gonna go right into the cloud server thing to do cloud shit, and then to a secure scrapping site (so it doesn't end up like the "Chinese XDKs" did back in the day where they just had the ethernet ports ripped out.) You will never make it run games recompiled like the dudes who got SPARCStations and SGIs for "the price of shipping" or from the ewaste pile back in the day could, or force it to run your Pleroma instance. You will serve your wagie master, make the thing work, and do it with shit hours.
This is exactly what a previous job of mine was like, and don't get me started on the guys who work in a big company, make something cool, it gets shitcanned, and then they never do anything afterwards (likely because of (((non compete agreements))) as well).
Management isn't about cool nerds trying to do cool nerd things. It's about roasties and old boomers who want the line to go up infinitely. Big tech companies are like 90s Apple or 00s Sun or similar declining tech companies, where you hear about some really cool idea that was something that really ahead of it's time, and killed by boomers in management who didn't want to take any sort of risk, and then the risks they take are for shit nobody asked for like the Fire Phone.
Meanwhile there's fewer autists like the guy building a semiconductor fab in his garage, and more doing nerd crack, gooning on vrchat/gmod/sl/similar, and trying to speedrun getting you removed from a chat for some minor thing.
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@PraxisOfEvil One more thing I just remembered as well is the "Google Mindset" as I like to call it (MSFT is guilty too, and so was Sony with the PSVita).
Essentially, Google will come out with something, barely give a shit about marketing it or telling people what it is, wonder why it's doing badly, and shitcan it after a year.
https://killedbygoogle.com/
There's a lot of notable names on the killedbygoogle site, from things you've heard of and things you've never heard of that Google dumped out there and expected you to give a shit about. It's led corporations to ditch Google because they have no idea if what they're pushing this year will exist next year.
You can't get excited about something that will solely exist to create ewaste, like the Spotify Car Thing or other locked down pieces of shit.
https://youtu.be/ONxtLqGG32Q
https://youtu.be/1OxMnWrGyL8
Essentially, Google will come out with something, barely give a shit about marketing it or telling people what it is, wonder why it's doing badly, and shitcan it after a year.
https://killedbygoogle.com/
There's a lot of notable names on the killedbygoogle site, from things you've heard of and things you've never heard of that Google dumped out there and expected you to give a shit about. It's led corporations to ditch Google because they have no idea if what they're pushing this year will exist next year.
You can't get excited about something that will solely exist to create ewaste, like the Spotify Car Thing or other locked down pieces of shit.
https://youtu.be/ONxtLqGG32Q
https://youtu.be/1OxMnWrGyL8
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>killed by google
I'm actually nostalgic for a lot of these products/services because some of them were quite nice and even superior to what Google later put out. Like I really prefer Google Video over YouTube because Google Video actually allowed you to download the videos, even if it was in their proprietary video format. YouTube never officially allowed you to do that, even before monetization was a thing.
Google Desktop was also nice even though it was most likely used for Google to datamine your hard-drive. It contained gadgets which were basically web-apps, so you could play some flash games on your desktop (I was too dumb to learn that you can simply download the SWFs back then).
