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How about we let all the useless noise die? I mean the sites here, not the ads. I have fond memories of the 'old' internet, where web sites existed because som
by gnud 10y ago
How about we let all the useless noise die?
I mean the sites here, not the ads.
I have fond memories of the 'old' internet, where web sites existed because someone cared, not because someone wanted to sell ad space. Maybe I have selective memory, though.
- wjossey 10y agoI remember popups, punch-the-monkeys, and junk on the internet long ago. Things have become more pervasive, but I think our use has also dramatically gone up.
- brownbat 10y agoYeah, I have fond memories of that era, and of pulling postcardware down from BBS's. Search was pretty awful, so I guess I'm glad ads funded Google. The "Cool Site of the Day" archives give a good idea of what was online back then: http://www.coolsiteoftheday.com/cgi-bin/stillcool.pl?month=08&year=1994 http://www.coolsiteoftheday.com/cgi-bin/stillcool.pl?month=0... The oldest active site plugged by "Cool Site of the Day" is "The Froggy Page." http://www.frogsonice.com/froggy/ http://www.frogsonice.com/froggy/ The only other one from Aug '94 that seems pretty close to original was a site dedicated to documenting thoughts of festival-goers at Woodstock '94: http://www.well.com/woodstock/ http://www.well.com/woodstock/ Hrm, maybe we are a little better off... but there is some charm in pages from that era. Even though it's not conventional modern design, it's like outsider art. You can see people's passion, just doing what they care about.