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I think the old internet still exists. Despite how terrible things have gotten in some aspects, you can still freely share ideas, data, and opinions. Yes, it ma

I think the old internet still exists. Despite how terrible things have gotten in some aspects, you can still freely share ideas, data, and opinions. Yes, it makes me sad that we are forcing archaic meat-space ideas onto the internet, but, in many ways, the "core idea" of the internet moves around them. I agree that in many ways the internet looks sad compared to what it was, but I don't think hope is lost.

krapp 11y ago
Just because most people only consume content from a few corporate sites now, that doesn't mean the entire rest of the web has disappeared. The truth is, the web has only grown since its adoption by the mainstream. Yet out of some mixed sense of hipster despair and anti-capitalist contrarianism, it seems that "hackers" more than anyone have lost the ability to see the forest for the trees. Of course the old internet still exists, at least as far as the old sites go - as long as someone is still paying to keep the servers up. What doesn't exist anymore is the exclusivity of online culture. But if the web is a platform for expression, and I don't think anyone can argue it isn't, then is it really the case that the old "culture" of the web, biased as it was towards hackers and university students merely by happenstance, was really more "true" than the culture of the web today?