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The 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
by sago 7y ago
The 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.