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There was a certain method of presenting information that just doesn't seem to exist anymore in the modern world. The by-design weaving together of text, image
by Causality1 7y ago
There was a certain method of presenting information that just doesn't seem to exist anymore in the modern world. The by-design weaving together of text, images, video, and audio when giving information about a certain topic. Sure, wikipedia articles have one or two images, maybe an audio clip, and plenty of links to other text articles, but nothing like an encyclopedia or other informational software of the 90s. You'd have software about, say, dinosaurs, and there'd be big diagrams where every word was a link to a descriptive media. It feels like we've shrunk. You can watch a Youtube video but it's just a video; you can't pause it on a picture of a T-Rex and click on its mouth to learn about T-Rex teeth. The modern web forever has you finding any piece of information you need starting from zero, and most of the time you can't summon the energy to do that for everything you might find interesting.
Interactive multimedia is dead and I think today's children are worse off for it.
- mopsi 7y agoVideo of the dino browsing experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgOZUPUGuwY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dgOZUPUGuwY
- Causality1 7y agoExactly what I was thinking of, thank you.