Old School VS New School
Posted: Mon Sep 11, 2023 9:07 am
Alright, I think it's time to give the newer generation of operators some credit where it's due.
I found myself poring through old archived data recently and that included a ton of old night ops content. Naturally I had to pause and take a look at some of it.
Honestly... I think night ops mostly seemed more exciting back in the early days because we didn't know almost anything, came up with ridiculous bullshit, and there was nobody back then to step in and tell us it was fucking retarded. I mean in all fairness, if it ever seems to anyone here that I talk about the old days on &TOTSE with some kind of affection, believe me, we branched off for a reason. So... it's not like "night ops" was formed by ex-special forces operators. Literally everyone was a high schooler when it started and we were just curious as fuck.
Looking back through that stuff, it formed a bond of sorts because we were sort of despised, urbex wasn't more of a household term yet, so it was like us versus everyone else. For those of you who weren't on the internet back then at all, it was a much more vicious place. People today talk about cyberbullying? Trying entire communities rallying to see if they can get someone to commit suicide via their comments just because it'd be funny.
Anyway, you all today have such a better head start. The whole "age of information" thing is really something. I wonder if it's enough with how everything is advancing. Still, at least there's a foundation of some sort to pick through.
Actually thinking about that, it's a bit strange. I literally found places like this by typing things into search engines that I was interested in. You can actually still do that with night ops using various terms one might search for. Makes sense I suppose, I've read that the newer gens aren't nearly as into traditional search engines at all. Hard to blame them with how far they've gone down the gutter in terms of curating content.
It's easy for someone like myself I suppose to set my expectations way too high even when I'm actively trying to think about where a newer user might be in their operating headspace. So here's me recognizing that not only are most of you not posting some of the inane shit we were during the early days of NO, but you actually start out far more advanced than we did.
One of these days I'll have to start a joke thread where I regurgitate some of the funniest posts that somehow... I don't know fucking how... got a pass.
I found myself poring through old archived data recently and that included a ton of old night ops content. Naturally I had to pause and take a look at some of it.
Honestly... I think night ops mostly seemed more exciting back in the early days because we didn't know almost anything, came up with ridiculous bullshit, and there was nobody back then to step in and tell us it was fucking retarded. I mean in all fairness, if it ever seems to anyone here that I talk about the old days on &TOTSE with some kind of affection, believe me, we branched off for a reason. So... it's not like "night ops" was formed by ex-special forces operators. Literally everyone was a high schooler when it started and we were just curious as fuck.
Looking back through that stuff, it formed a bond of sorts because we were sort of despised, urbex wasn't more of a household term yet, so it was like us versus everyone else. For those of you who weren't on the internet back then at all, it was a much more vicious place. People today talk about cyberbullying? Trying entire communities rallying to see if they can get someone to commit suicide via their comments just because it'd be funny.
Anyway, you all today have such a better head start. The whole "age of information" thing is really something. I wonder if it's enough with how everything is advancing. Still, at least there's a foundation of some sort to pick through.
Actually thinking about that, it's a bit strange. I literally found places like this by typing things into search engines that I was interested in. You can actually still do that with night ops using various terms one might search for. Makes sense I suppose, I've read that the newer gens aren't nearly as into traditional search engines at all. Hard to blame them with how far they've gone down the gutter in terms of curating content.
It's easy for someone like myself I suppose to set my expectations way too high even when I'm actively trying to think about where a newer user might be in their operating headspace. So here's me recognizing that not only are most of you not posting some of the inane shit we were during the early days of NO, but you actually start out far more advanced than we did.
One of these days I'll have to start a joke thread where I regurgitate some of the funniest posts that somehow... I don't know fucking how... got a pass.