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That depends on your definition of "Web". If you mean the proliferation of watering holes (including this one), then the old web is dying. I've seen a few new n

by eksith 13y ago

That depends on your definition of "Web". If you mean the proliferation of watering holes (including this one), then the old web is dying. I've seen a few new nuggets of gold on NeoCities, but people's proclivities toward building "websites" seems to be on the wane. I blame search engines for this as much as anything. Back in the days of the webring, the only guaranteed way you could come across a site that's relevant to what you were browsing for was to see whether it was linked on the current site. I.E. "Surfing" actually meant something. The web is not an application.

dllthomas 13y ago
Whoa, I'd almost completely forgotten about "webrings". These days, links and targeted advertising play something of a similar role, but not quite the same thing...
- eksith 13y ago
  They're not completely gone. I think "Blogroll" filled that void for a bit, before that too was taken over by ads. The next step was public bookmark sharing, like Stumbleupon or Delicious. Still, those services feel a bit sterile for my taste. Something nostalgic and hard to replace like a hand crafted HTML link on your own site carries a bit more weight with me.
zimbatm 13y ago
I loved this feeling that I got when I found a web-page with good content that was hard to find. It was like opening a treasure trove. There were also a lot of different (rough) designs with personality making the experience much richer. Now information is per page, accessible from Google. And everyone is mimicking other people's design. More and more people are consuming than creating and it changes the ecosystem. I would love to see more personal wikies that have traesures in them.
- eksith 13y ago
  They're still out there, albeit harder to find. Geocities dying was quite a blow and Tripod is scarcely touched these days. Squatters, I fear, are moving to NeoCities, but here and there I find some sites that are diamonds in the rough. Individually hosted sites are rarer still. I.E. http://www.nakka-rocketry.net http://www.nakka-rocketry.net http://www.mcleanmonocycle.com http://www.mcleanmonocycle.com http://www.neogentronyx.com http://www.neogentronyx.com http://rimstar.org/sdprop http://rimstar.org/sdprop http://www.matus1976.com http://www.matus1976.com http://www.restrainingbolt.com http://www.restrainingbolt.com I tend to browse forums (barely have the time these days) where these links are shared. Once in a while Google will get these pages or you might see a Wiki page created for them, but for the most part, they're really spread through manual sharing.

by eksith 13y ago

dllthomas 13y ago

Whoa, I'd almost completely forgotten about "webrings". These days, links and targeted advertising play something of a similar role, but not quite the same thing...

eksith 13y ago
They're not completely gone. I think "Blogroll" filled that void for a bit, before that too was taken over by ads. The next step was public bookmark sharing, like Stumbleupon or Delicious. Still, those services feel a bit sterile for my taste. Something nostalgic and hard to replace like a hand crafted HTML link on your own site carries a bit more weight with me.

zimbatm 13y ago

I loved this feeling that I got when I found a web-page with good content that was hard to find. It was like opening a treasure trove. There were also a lot of different (rough) designs with personality making the experience much richer. Now information is per page, accessible from Google. And everyone is mimicking other people's design. More and more people are consuming than creating and it changes the ecosystem. I would love to see more personal wikies that have traesures in them.

eksith 13y ago
They're still out there, albeit harder to find. Geocities dying was quite a blow and Tripod is scarcely touched these days. Squatters, I fear, are moving to NeoCities, but here and there I find some sites that are diamonds in the rough. Individually hosted sites are rarer still. I.E. http://www.nakka-rocketry.net http://www.nakka-rocketry.net http://www.mcleanmonocycle.com http://www.mcleanmonocycle.com http://www.neogentronyx.com http://www.neogentronyx.com http://rimstar.org/sdprop http://rimstar.org/sdprop http://www.matus1976.com http://www.matus1976.com http://www.restrainingbolt.com http://www.restrainingbolt.com I tend to browse forums (barely have the time these days) where these links are shared. Once in a while Google will get these pages or you might see a Wiki page created for them, but for the most part, they're really spread through manual sharing.