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Those simple web 1.0 sites made by college professors are a gold-standard in my book. I always enjoy finding them in search results. Although they are becoming
by BitwiseFool 3y ago
Those simple web 1.0 sites made by college professors are a gold-standard in my book. I always enjoy finding them in search results. Although they are becoming increasingly rare.
- dredmorbius 3y agoUnfortunately, that's a trivial signal to emulate. At a minimum, you'd have to validate them by confirming existence in the Wayback Machine. Otherwise agreed that those are indeed high-signal documents. Increasing reliance on integrated educational software means that even such things as online syllabi are increasingly rare.
- LordDragonfang 3y agoThe type of sites GP is talking about are typically hosted on .edu servers, under faculty webhosting (often featuring a "/~profname/" in the url). That's a non-trivial signal.
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- dredmorbius 3y ago~/name at an edu is pretty attainable. .edu domains can be had for any otherwise eligible "U.S.-based postsecondary institutions" per Educause: <https://net.educause.edu/eligibility.htm https://net.educause.edu/eligibility.htm> Pages at extant domains might variously be available to undergraduate or graduate students, faculty, staff, and adjuncts. Those might either directly host emulative material or be convinced or compromised into hosting content. If there's one thing that the Internet's history to date has proved, its that perverse incentives lead to perverse consequences.
- l33t7332273 3y agoIt is not easy for a regular person to obtain access to a .edu webpage.
- dredmorbius 3y agoA "regular person" can: - Enroll or be hired at an eligible institution. There are literally thousands of these. - Bribe or compromise someone enrolled or hired at an eligible institution. - Create a de novo eligible institution. For-profit colleges are not uncommon. Someone motivated by profit or advantage would likely find virtually any of these options quite straightforward. I'm ... somewhat pained that this needs to be spelled out.
- l33t7332273 3y ago> Enroll or be hired at an eligible institution. There are literally thousands of these You don’t generally get the kind of personal website being discussed to my understanding. > Bribe or compromise someone enrolled or hired at an eligible institution Finding a professor willing to stake their job and reputation for such a blatantly immoral scam seems hard. > Create a de novo eligible institution Is it actually easy for a regular person to create their own college? I find the snarky finish to your comment obnoxious.
- 90-00-09 3y agoA "regular person" also can: - start their own country and call it Edunistan - bribe ICANN to take over the .edu TLD - open a university in the new country - spend 15 years earning a PhD at that university - reserve ~/name and start posting LLM generated content
- heavyset_go 3y agoCan't prove it, but it seems to me like black text on white background sites from the past are poorly ranked compared to sites with "modern" layouts.
- hashtag-til 3y agoYes. I love black text on white background. A rare find these days. Browsing today is like: “You ask for a spaghetti recipe and the page tell you the whole history of civilization.”
- zeroonetwothree 3y agoThats specific to recipes because they can’t be copyrighted
- hashtag-til 3y agoI had a look and definitely learned something today so #til. Also, note to self to collect my favourite recipes in markdown files from now on.
- xkcd-sucks 3y ago#til! https://www.justtherecipe.com/ https://www.justtherecipe.com/
- grotorea 3y agoI heard that before and have trouble believing this is the cause at least for Internet recipes. Sure for a recipe book in 1950, but are recipe content farms going to sue each other? Isn't the lawyer costs way more than could be gained?
- StableAlkyne 3y agoDon't forget how Google will now drop search terms if it thinks you mean something else, or add unrelated synonyms to your search (presumably to "help" folks who aren't good at writing queries)
- MrVandemar 3y agosearch.marginalia.nu is a great place to find those sites, and some more interesting stuff besides.
- StableAlkyne 3y agoPaul's Notes remains the absolute best textbook Calculus and intro to DiffEQ! Not sure if it's been updated since 2005, but I mean, it's not like they're discovering new Calc II methods! Being that it's not a $200 textbook rehashing the same stuff as the last 10 editions, it's easily one of my favorite websites