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I do miss the mad west of the IRC/NNTP days. I also miss multiple search engines. Yahoo/Lycos/Hotbot/Dogpile/AltaVista all give you different results and you co
by djsumdog 9y ago
I do miss the mad west of the IRC/NNTP days. I also miss multiple search engines. Yahoo/Lycos/Hotbot/Dogpile/AltaVista all give you different results and you could have fun searching around.
The current Internet is a monoculture
- Gigablah 9y agoYou do realize that DDG is the modern incarnation of Dogpile? Also, why are we pretending that Bing, Yandex and Baidu don't exist?
- endisukaj 9y agoBecause Yandex and Baidu give your data to some of the worst governments in the world.
- lazyjones 9y agoNNTP, so awesome until 95% of its resources were consumed by its abuse as a file sharing platform for (naughty to nasty) images and pirated software and until power-hungry local group moderators started abusive banning/deleting practices against people who disagreed with their opinions on politics etc. People want their own fluffy & safe social bubbles, not open, distributed networks.