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> golden age of espresso machine reviews Probably when the first search result was a hobby page maintained by an espresso machine enthusiast. Those days ended
by inimino 7y ago
> golden age of espresso machine reviews
Probably when the first search result was a hobby page maintained by an espresso machine enthusiast. Those days ended early, but I remember the pre-commercial Web and it was a very different place.
- phs318u 7y agoI remember using a work sponsored subscription to Compuserve back in the day, and finding it incredibly useful. Signal to noise ratio was awesome (for a pretty narrow set of subject areas). I guess there’s something to be said - in certain domains - for a real, direct cost, acting as a barrier to bots and “frivolous” use. Having to pay to publish (and to consume) separates the diamonds from the diarrhoea. However this is really just saying that “walled gardens” are nice. I don’t think a return to this approach is viable except in specific knowledge domains (where the knowledge is explicitly highly valued). Espresso machine reviews (as per example floating around in this thread) may not be such a domain.
- krageon 7y agoCompanies have deep marketing pockets and can therefore afford to saturate walled gardens protected by payment with shit.