📢 New Essay: The Boring Internet

[jake4480@c.im]

@tg oh awesome thank you- really gotta get it out!

[thelancashireman@hostux.social]

@tg

MAGA - Make Archie Great Again!

[thelancashireman@hostux.social]

@tg

The old "platforms" were better too.
ftp:sunsite.unc.edu was great. There was another that I can't recall offhand.
Also the crusty Demon Internet (UK) service for nntp.

FWIW I have my own low-volume blog with RSS. Maybe I should use it more.

[guffo@topspicy.social]

@tg Excellent! That sums up what my brain has been orbiting for some time.

[kochiko@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tg wow!
I checked the command and it is really work!
You inspired me to know about old technology. Thank you)

[wanderinghermit@mindly.social]

@tg

Unreadable, gray on black and/or dark colors on black DOES NOT WORK for those of us with old eyes.

I suppose I could copy it and paste it into a text editor, but I don't care enough.

[hailsandales@metalhead.club]

@jake4480 @tg you also need to post your blogs here Jake! I wanted to boost your latest cartoon post!

[jake4480@c.im]

@HailsandAles @tg hahaa oh man you're so right. For the more specific, non news-collecty ones, I will try to - that one had a lot in it and I'd been collecting that info for months hahaha - thank you for reading, man!

[thelunarfox@mindly.social]

@wanderinghermit @tg Your browser may have a button to make it easier to read. I'm using Chrome, and under the options there's an option to "show reading mode."

[wanderinghermit@mindly.social]

@Thelunarfox @tg

Cool, I'll try that. Good to know, thanks!

[wanderinghermit@mindly.social]

@Thelunarfox @tg

Wow, reading mode (or SpeedReader as Brave calls it) is a game-changer. Thank you so much!

Learned something new today...

[ghosttie@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@tg if they DDoS scrape it to death it'll die

[nethad@swiss.social]

@tg lovely essay, I feel the same way ️

[swade2569@mastodon.social]

@tg Ah such a wonderful trip down memory lane. Usenet and alt.binaries The lessons learned from encoding binaries has served me well. Thanks for the memories and a little reassurance all is not lost.

[grumpykaiju@mastodon.social]

@tg Great essay! The modern web feels like a panopticon where every action is immediately fed into an algorithm without being asked. And yet, the truly great things are only recommended by real humans.

[hinnerk@mastodon.social]

@fasnix @tg @johl Maybe I was stuck a bit in the past. They seem to have come over the issues they had. Still no way for a concept to authenticate a user afaik. Everything is very public but dependng on the intention that may not necessarily be a problem.

[c_riesen@openbiblio.social]

@tg Thank you for writing and sharing this, Terry! Most important thing I've read in a while. There is a kinship to libraries in there somewhere I'm interested in exploring. (Thanks to @datn for sharing)

[artfulrobot@floss.social]

@CowMan @sr_rolando @tg haha I gave up reading because of that UI. Every paragraph I read was interrupted by the next one "loading". Good that there's a button to do away with it but not going back now.

I wonder if it was normal and there was a button instead that said "make it all fadey and disappear when you scroll back" anyone would click it?

[miss_rodent@girlcock.club]

@tg Yeah, a significant frustration I've had for a while is trying to get parts of my community to actually move to the boring-but-resilient options. I've had some luck dragging a few people over to XMPP, for example, but many are still stubbornly clinging to things like discord, and presumably won't leave until a chatbot asks for an HD scan of their ID & what their political affiliations are.