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I'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 impressiv
by jancsika 7y ago
I'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.