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The web, on this day 10 years ago

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Re: The web, on this day 10 years ago

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Post by pdog »

czardoz wrote: post #16

Haha, the HN post about Facebook has a very interesting comment which mentions the internet "a decade from now": > It is just a joke that Facebook could be valued at $6 billion. An absolute joke. > FB has 30 million users, and that's not considering potential duplicates. > The number of active users may be even smaller than that, and some people like I only log on once a week or so. > If FB gets sold for $6 billion,…

Facebook now makes roughly $9 billion in revenue (and $4 billion in profit) per quarter.

Re: The web, on this day 10 years ago

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Post by the_cat_kittles »

hhmc wrote: post #18
bitwize wrote: post #7

popular subreddits: * programming * science Oh, how times have changed.

The 'race to the bottom' of reddit has been fascinating to watch. I think it clearly demonstrates that without moderation popular forums will necessarily devolve to lowest common denominator content. (I do, however, appreciate there are still quality subreddits).

agree, though i think its tempting to view this cynically rather than as an almost inevitable product of the circumstances. i think it was david foster wallace who made a similar point about tv, namely that it caters to the lowest common denominator because thats what we all share- you cannot have the "mass" part of mass media without doing that. we all have more deep interests, but they are disparate- so the venn diagram essentially dictates the subject matter.

Re: The web, on this day 10 years ago

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Post by hhmc »

the_cat_kittles wrote: post #45
hhmc wrote: post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The 'race to the bottom' of reddit has been fascinating to watch. I think it clearly demonstrates that without moderation popular forums will necessarily devolve to lowest common denominator content. (I do, however, appreciate there are still quality subreddits).

agree, though i think its tempting to view this cynically rather than as an almost inevitable product of the circumstances. i think it was david foster wallace who made a similar point about tv, namely that it caters to the lowest common denominator because thats what we all share- you cannot have the "mass" part of mass media without doing that. we all have more deep interests, but they are disparate- so the venn di…

For sure, but technological trends have certainly catalysed the process, at least with respect to reddit. The ubiquity of the gif, and incredibly low friction image hosting services come to mind.

Re: The web, on this day 10 years ago

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Post by taneq »

losteverything wrote: post #42

What i love about these things is i have to think about back then What phone was i using? When did i last buy a roll of film? First amazon order and what was it? First online order? When did i get rid of landline? When did i stop using aol? When did i get gmail?

Pretty sure it was an Ericsson W880i. The last non-touchscreen phone I owned... I miss that phone sometimes.

Roll of film? What's that again?

I think I still haven't ordered anything off Amazon, hadn't bought much online at all back then.

I've never had a landline in my own name (that we actually used, had a couple that came with an ADSL bundle when naked ADSL wasn't cheaper).

What's AOL? Got Gmail in '04 I think, late in the 'invite only' phase before they got evil.

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