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By pure volume, there's got to be more whimsy on the internet today than back then. There are orders of magnitude more people on it. But sure, the percentage
by bjt 6y ago
By pure volume, there's got to be more whimsy on the internet today than back then. There are orders of magnitude more people on it.
But sure, the percentage is probably lower.
That says to me that this is a search problem. Could we build a search engine that favors indie/personal labors of love over commercial sites?
Or maybe it's a curation problem rather than search. In which case a site like HN is just the thing to help it bubble to the surface.
- dhosek 6y agoBack in the early days of the web, one of my regular stops was Worst of the Web which was a collection of the most embarrassing things people put up on personal "home pages." (As an aside, at a work meeting last week, someone used the term home page to refer to a web page and I was instantly transported to 1995. I remember one upper level manager excitedly declare that the term home page should only refer to the page that opens when you start the browser and not to the page that we had at our companies main address.)