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The Internet is more useful than it ever was for a lot more people. It has more information on more stuff, and you can do a lot more than you ever could, and a

The Internet is more useful than it ever was for a lot more people. It has more information on more stuff, and you can do a lot more than you ever could, and a lot more people benefit from it in more ways than ever. Is it universally better in every way ? No. Could it be better in many important ways? Yes. But hyperbolic statements like "the Internet was ruined" is just nostalgia and hyperbole.

tannhaeuser 3y ago
> The Internet is more useful than it ever was for a lot more people. It has more information on more stuff, and you can do a lot more than you ever could, and a lot more people benefit from it in more ways than ever. Without proof, that's just as hyperbolic as the post you're criticizing.
- drivebycomment 3y ago
  https://www.statista.com/statistics/273018/number-of-internet-users-worldwide/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/273018/number-of-interne... The number of users on the internet went 5x from 2005 to now. https://www.zippia.com/advice/online-shopping-statistics/ https://www.zippia.com/advice/online-shopping-statistics/ E-commerce volume went similarly steep and steady in increase. https://siteefy.com/how-many-websites-are-there/ https://siteefy.com/how-many-websites-are-there/ Number of active websites went up similarly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia#Annual_growth_rate_for_the_English_Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia#... Wikipedia number of articles exploded.
ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago
Not quite. I think "surfing the web" has become a worse experience now than in the past. There are some "internet connected" experiences such as Wikipedia which work well. But the biggest change is that the internet has moved away from being an exploration space to a push content space. The hyperlinking got reduced because tech companies didn't want people to leave their platform and that just made the culture very pushy and clingy.

tannhaeuser 3y ago

> The Internet is more useful than it ever was for a lot more people. It has more information on more stuff, and you can do a lot more than you ever could, and a lot more people benefit from it in more ways than ever. Without proof, that's just as hyperbolic as the post you're criticizing.

drivebycomment 3y ago
https://www.statista.com/statistics/273018/number-of-internet-users-worldwide/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/273018/number-of-interne... The number of users on the internet went 5x from 2005 to now. https://www.zippia.com/advice/online-shopping-statistics/ https://www.zippia.com/advice/online-shopping-statistics/ E-commerce volume went similarly steep and steady in increase. https://siteefy.com/how-many-websites-are-there/ https://siteefy.com/how-many-websites-are-there/ Number of active websites went up similarly. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia#Annual_growth_rate_for_the_English_Wikipedia https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Size_of_Wikipedia#... Wikipedia number of articles exploded.

ilrwbwrkhv 3y ago

Not quite. I think "surfing the web" has become a worse experience now than in the past. There are some "internet connected" experiences such as Wikipedia which work well. But the biggest change is that the internet has moved away from being an exploration space to a push content space. The hyperlinking got reduced because tech companies didn't want people to leave their platform and that just made the culture very pushy and clingy.