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The fact that the website this comes from is "ff8isthe.best" makes this so much better. I love hyper-specific websites. Also, I love documentation on these obs

by jjice 3y ago

The fact that the website this comes from is "ff8isthe.best" makes this so much better. I love hyper-specific websites. Also, I love documentation on these obscure things from times passed. I'm not sure where else I would have ran into this, but I appreciate the author for writing this kind of thing down.

bombcar 3y ago
This was what the Internet made beautiful for a time, international access to hyper-specific deep sites on highly specific topics. Instead we get 9000 identical sites regurgitating the same identical garbage; I want sites where I can enjoy people going into way too much detail about something they feel strongly about, like why steam engines were going to lose to diesel no matter what, because diesel can get traction going up an incline that a steam engine simply cannot do (and that detailed page is lost to me, I can't find it). It's just how subreddits devolve to meme-reposting unless actively and strongly countered; forums were a bit better at that but you had to have active moderation.
- krapp 3y ago
  > I want sites where I can enjoy people going into way too much detail about something they feel strongly about, like why steam engines were going to lose to diesel no matter what, because diesel can get traction going up an incline that a steam engine simply cannot do (and that detailed page is lost to me, I can't find it). You can find plenty of that as content, it just exists on platforms rather than individual sites, and mostly as video.
  - azemetre 3y ago
    Not the same, it's much harder to watch video content than content you can read. I don't have time to spend 30 minutes watching some in-depth video essay on a game, but I can read someone's blog for 5 minutes that hits all the relevant points.
- mistrial9 3y ago
  > Instead we get lots of publishing history in different media tells the story. "Broadcast media" was always suspect from the point of view of artsy, sophisticated and niche circles.. and I do mean circles, because publishing, content creation, and fans are all different people and need each other to make it work. This has been done "well" over and over.. but in the digital realms the incentives and mechanisms are powerful in overwhelming ways. More people than have ever existed in previous eras, are involved now. Cory Doctorow has plenty of (imperfect) insight into some of these things.. a local bookstore and network of those used to be an answer.. evolution is not over
- sonicanatidae 3y ago
  This is part of why I miss BBSes.

by jjice 3y ago

bombcar 3y ago

This was what the Internet made beautiful for a time, international access to hyper-specific deep sites on highly specific topics. Instead we get 9000 identical sites regurgitating the same identical garbage; I want sites where I can enjoy people going into way too much detail about something they feel strongly about, like why steam engines were going to lose to diesel no matter what, because diesel can get traction going up an incline that a steam engine simply cannot do (and that detailed page is lost to me, I can't find it). It's just how subreddits devolve to meme-reposting unless actively and strongly countered; forums were a bit better at that but you had to have active moderation.

krapp 3y ago
> I want sites where I can enjoy people going into way too much detail about something they feel strongly about, like why steam engines were going to lose to diesel no matter what, because diesel can get traction going up an incline that a steam engine simply cannot do (and that detailed page is lost to me, I can't find it). You can find plenty of that as content, it just exists on platforms rather than individual sites, and mostly as video.
- azemetre 3y ago
  Not the same, it's much harder to watch video content than content you can read. I don't have time to spend 30 minutes watching some in-depth video essay on a game, but I can read someone's blog for 5 minutes that hits all the relevant points.
mistrial9 3y ago
> Instead we get lots of publishing history in different media tells the story. "Broadcast media" was always suspect from the point of view of artsy, sophisticated and niche circles.. and I do mean circles, because publishing, content creation, and fans are all different people and need each other to make it work. This has been done "well" over and over.. but in the digital realms the incentives and mechanisms are powerful in overwhelming ways. More people than have ever existed in previous eras, are involved now. Cory Doctorow has plenty of (imperfect) insight into some of these things.. a local bookstore and network of those used to be an answer.. evolution is not over
sonicanatidae 3y ago
This is part of why I miss BBSes.