Sums up my experience growing up
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Sums up my experience growing up
@ilovecomputers
i just can’t convey the frustration and sorrow that it’s been to grow up at first without the internet and then watching it bloom into this useful, fun, connecting force you sometimes spent time on, only for it to degrade into this constant oppressive waste of time and energy where people are constantly pumping out algorithmically designed content for max algorithmic appeal and even the most simple search generates either no results or an unimaginably bad ai generated slop none of which is usable or correct. we briefly had a library of alexandria and then fed it into a paper shredder so advertisers could sell a random mass of pulp back to us at a premium. -
Sums up my experience growing up
It’s almost like you wanna go back to a library. You know, people building stuff they like or create and for local business
It really calls for a municipal utility network that serves the residents of a location of a city or town, that provides Internet access, web posting services and a data center. Librarians would be recruited to provide information services to structure things usefully.
Each city could then federate with other cities to create a larger network.
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Sums up my experience growing up
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Sums up my experience growing up
@ilovecomputers Such truth. I could have written that 🫣
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@cassolotl TY! Searching for a tumblr post is such an utter pain.
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Sums up my experience growing up
https://eldritch.cafe/@cassolotl/116288484685754164
A big kudos to this person for finding the source
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@cassolotl TY! Searching for a tumblr post is such an utter pain.
@ilovecomputers You're welcome! I just google an interesting phrase from the post in quote marks and it usually pops up in the first three results.
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Sums up my experience growing up
I know the guy who invented it gave it to us all with good intent and selflessness, but had he kept a la Jimmy Swales and prevented it from being colonized by entities hellbent on making money off it, we'd be better off.
Maybe those companies would have created their own facsimile. That would be fine. Have a profit-driven internet separate from the humanist internet.
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Sums up my experience growing up
@ilovecomputers been thinking about this a lot. I miss the shear excitement of the discovery of enthusiastic individuals making great sites. Tech giants damaged it. FB killed blogging and forums. Google and Apple pushed everything into their myopic view as the small, enthusiast was pushed out by corporate greed and the fact that ultimately a few geeks decided they knew best. Agree about AI but for me the bigger issue is constant tracking and advertising. We have become commodities. Sure some of the Internet is very useful... but the joy has gone.
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@ilovecomputers I feel like the core of what we loved about the internet is there - it's hiding in chat rooms, little closed member forums, hand crafted websites. It's not gone, just harder to see, but if you dig through the muck, you find yourself in a small meadow with a few other folks who might share with you something good.
@triptych @ilovecomputers i never stopped feeling the vibe of diy and having your own style, errupting into happiness when sb wrote in your guestbook world. Close, personal and open.
I always hid invisible links to fav stuff in single letters of website text to discover. Presently I have a similar website running for me to find and remember stuff when I need it. -
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