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>Time is a flat circle, eh? I prefer Mark Twain's “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.” It's pretty obvious that we have come to a stagnant
by mrtksn 4y ago
>Time is a flat circle, eh?
I prefer Mark Twain's “History never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme.”
It's pretty obvious that we have come to a stagnant period of online content and there's a desire to move past the glamour of the Instagram and political fights on Twitter and optimised for ad revenue videos on Youtube but I don't think that the personal websites are coming back.
Those were cool because only specific type of people were able to build websites, then the code free services for sharing content came along and everybody got online presence but because the medium is the message we are kind of getting tired of the message. There seems to be a search for a new medium. The time for the next verse feels around the corner but I don't think we have found it just yet!
- pvg 4y agoI prefer Mark Twain's That has its own history https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/ https://quoteinvestigator.com/2014/01/12/history-rhymes/
- kachnuv_ocasek 4y agoI prefer Slavoj Žižek’s “first time as a tragedy, second as a farce”.
- notlukesky 4y agoThat was Karl Marx: https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/karl_marx_382655 https://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/karl_marx_382655
- taneq 4y agoMaybe the first time. ;)
- grey-area 4y agoIn a fun essay named The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon, though apparently lifted by Marx from a letter to him by Engels: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_Louis_Bonaparte https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eighteenth_Brumaire_of_L... So really it was Engels.
- pmontra 4y ago"First time is not first, second time is an inaccurate citation." Could we settle on this?
- vanderZwan 4y agoIsn't that more or less Stigler's Law of Eponymy? [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stigler%27s_law_of_eponymy
- isamuel 4y agoThat was someone else.
- account42 4y agoIt might just be observation bias but it seems to me that personal websites and blogs are coming back at least for the kinds of people that might have had one in the old web. Perhaps the trend won't wash over the whole web but having a subculture that is at least as large as the old web would be great, no?