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Actually, the web began dying in the late 90s.
by mirimir 7y ago
Actually, the web began dying in the late 90s.
- sporkologist 7y agoYes right after Mosaic 1.0 was released. RIP
- devin 7y agoHard to tell if you’re joking. If you do actually believe this, I assume you also believe that e-commerce broke everything?
- mirimir 7y agoNo, I'm not joking. It's not so much e-commerce that broke everything. Although there were many who did argue that. For me, it's been the shift from self-published (and indeed, self-hosted) to Google, Facebook and cloud services. And the tide turned in the late 90s. Edit: When I first got online, it was AOL, CompuServe, EcoNet and The Well. I was on all of them except AOL. And then we had Usenet and websites. And networks of websites. The prospect of citizen-based journalism. But now we're back to something a lot more like AOL.
- rootw0rm 7y agoor something a lot like Prodigy...
- mirimir 7y agoDamn, forgot Prodigy. I was mainly a CompuServe geek.
- z3t4 7y agoIt has never been more easy to self publish ... via Twitter and Instagram. But the real problem is that you only have 1 hour of free time, spread out in five minute intervals during the day. Being an adult sux.
- mirimir 7y agoThose are all centralized. And trivially censored. I'd rather have stuff like Aether, NotABug, Tor onion sites, and so on.
- BlueTemplar 7y agoThis is NOT self-publishing.
- z3t4 7y agoWhen making home made food, do I also need go grow the wheat myself? eg. do I need to run the server at my house, or can I use a service? Where do you draw the line?
- BlueTemplar 7y agoHow easy is it to move your profile from Twitter/Instagram to another host ?
- blackflame 7y agoIf by the web you mean booting up an entire JVM to enable drag and drop
- mirimir 7y agoI mean static HTML.
- blackflame 7y agoWhy that is the web anymore than a javascript enabled version makes no sense.
- mirimir 7y agoIt's arguably rude to be running code on someone else's machine without explicit permission. Except for websites, indeed, it's generally illegal. That's why prudent folk use tools like NoScript.
- sago 7y agoThe eternal September was 1993. I remember that change well and the earlier flavour I remember nostalgically. And it was tied to the rise of the web. There's a good argument to say the web killed the internet. But all things change. Every phase has good and bad points. IMHO
- jancsika 7y agoI'll take 2000-on to the 1993 web/net any day. I get: * an up-to-date encyclopedia * all the music referred to by said encyclopedia (Napster) * an impressive number of books referred to by said encyclopedia (Demonoid) * 2010s bonus-- a lot of the scientific articles cited by said encyclopedia (Scihub) * 2010s bonus-- a searchable cache of stupid questions to do an end-run around the pain of interacting with the asocial gate-keepers who wish the internet wasn't so full of people (StackOverflow) * an archive of all the stuff you're nostalgic for (archive.org and Google's copy/paste of usenet junk) My internet is like O'Brien to your Winston from 1984-- its mind includes yours. Edit: clarification
- mirimir 7y agoOK. But most of that stuff is noncommercial, and not part of the neo-AOL/Prodigy thing that the Web has become. In my alternate history, the Web would have all that. And so much more like that.