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No and it worries me. I have a great memory normally, I speak several languages and computer languages. I was raised in the era before search engines when bookm

No and it worries me. I have a great memory normally, I speak several languages and computer languages. I was raised in the era before search engines when bookmarks were important. But these days it worries me to say that I just visit the same three websites over and over. Aggregation websites with links and content. Sometimes I find myself staring at the url bar not being able to think of anything to do because I've visited my three websites already. Of course besides those three aggregators there are sites like google and stackexchange that I visit indirectly. And any blogs, forum and such that I might find through google.

taude 10y ago
I don't think this is a bad idea. Let other's aggregate what's important and filters up to the top. I'm the same way. I used to subscribe to a lot of blogs and stuff, now I just visit Hacker News and my custom Reddit front page, and read a couple articles that are popular, and then get on with my day. If you find yourself staring at the URL bar with nothing to do because you already visited your curated aggregation site, maybe you don't need to be randomly surfing the Internet, and instead can accomplish some important work. (This is a good place to be in as opposed to someone hot-tabbing to 10 different websites.)
- narak 10y ago
  I used to feel this way but there is intellectual concentration risk. Reading the same stuff as everyone else has created an echo chamber for me, and I intend to seek diverse sources again like I did before the link aggregator era.
bogomipz 10y ago
>"I was raised in the era before search engines when bookmarks were important." Out of curiosity when was the era when there existed browsers and no search engines? Both web browsers and search engines arrived around the same time, circa 1993[1][2] [1] http://www.wordstream.com/articles/internet-search-engines-history http://www.wordstream.com/articles/internet-search-engines-h... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_web_browser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_web_browser
- golergka 10y ago
  They were very, very bad, and many preferred to use link catalouges, for example.

taude 10y ago

I don't think this is a bad idea. Let other's aggregate what's important and filters up to the top. I'm the same way. I used to subscribe to a lot of blogs and stuff, now I just visit Hacker News and my custom Reddit front page, and read a couple articles that are popular, and then get on with my day. If you find yourself staring at the URL bar with nothing to do because you already visited your curated aggregation site, maybe you don't need to be randomly surfing the Internet, and instead can accomplish some important work. (This is a good place to be in as opposed to someone hot-tabbing to 10 different websites.)

narak 10y ago
I used to feel this way but there is intellectual concentration risk. Reading the same stuff as everyone else has created an echo chamber for me, and I intend to seek diverse sources again like I did before the link aggregator era.

bogomipz 10y ago

>"I was raised in the era before search engines when bookmarks were important." Out of curiosity when was the era when there existed browsers and no search engines? Both web browsers and search engines arrived around the same time, circa 1993[1][2] [1] http://www.wordstream.com/articles/internet-search-engines-history http://www.wordstream.com/articles/internet-search-engines-h... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_web_browser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_web_browser

golergka 10y ago
They were very, very bad, and many preferred to use link catalouges, for example.