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For those who didn't read the article:

The donation program has existed since 1996, with a total of $67.3 million contributed — an amount that remains negligible compared to the federal debt.

The only new thing is more convenient donation methods.

That's fine. The actual internet will still be here.

Apparently ultra-high-IQ people like to use comma splices too.

I said the same thing on another post and got upvoted to the top. Damn, lemmy is fickle.

I miss when JS was just a silly thing you could use to add trails to the mouse cursor to impress anyone who stumbled onto your geocities page

The next version added sprinting.

Also forgot to mention the latest version has tiles support that looks like this:

So you don't have to play with ASCII graphics. ;)

Sil (specifically Sil-Q, the most modern fork) is a great Tolkien-esque roguelike in the vein of Angband where pacifism is a first-class citizen. You get a lot of XP just by observing hostiles from the shadows. I highly recommend it!

There are way more people today and we compete with the entire world so it's harder to stand out.

And progress is a lot more complicated today. It requires bigger teams working with more complicated equipment and more data than ever before. That means more people involved and, again, less opportunity for any one person to stand out.

This is all exacerbated by scientific journals and media companies that are more interested in making money than in making sure the best stuff rises to the top.

And people aren't on the same page like they used to be. When there are a billion books, movies, songs, etc. to choose from, pop culture becomes less and less of a thing. People end up in their own increasingly atomized camps and can spend whole lifetimes there, not really caring about stars from the other camps.

Descent II has maybe the most unique soundtrack I have ever heard in a game.

I think very few of them would have been famous, even posthumously, if they had lived today.