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The modern internet is much more expressive for a great many more people that geocities ever was. Geocities even constrained by the technology of the day offer
by goatinaboat 6y ago
The modern internet is much more expressive for a great many more people that geocities ever was.
Geocities even constrained by the technology of the day offered far more expressiveness than Facebook’s “fill in these fields and we’ll populate a standard template” approach does.
- krapp 6y agoThe "modern internet" is more expressive in terms of content. It's no longer entirely populated by a monoculture of university students or technologically savvy American nerds, and no longer limited only to what text and images can provide. Geocities, compared to modern platforms, offered more technical freedom in that it gave you direct control over HTML, CSS and Javascript, and yet still many Geocities sites wound up looking very similar to one another, and the quality of content in many cases was more shallow than now.
- goatinaboat 6y agoIt's no longer entirely populated by a monoculture On the contrary the Facebook of 2020 is far more a monoculture than the internet of 2000 or 1990.
- krapp 6y agoI wasn't referring to the culture of the platform, so much as the culture of the userbase. Besides, Facebook is anything but a monoculture - nothing with a billion users could be considered a monoculture, especially not a platform where people maintain their real identity and culture rather than adopting a "platform" culture like on Reddit or 4chan. Also, obviously, Facebook isn't the internet.