I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked
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Re: I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked
#332Earlier quoted context omitted.
> What? It's not at all impossible. Get a server, put whatever you want on it. Not in Germany. There is a set of laws called "Impressumspflicht" ( https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impressumspflicht ) which forces you to add a mandatory imprint on your website. If you do something wrong or forget to include some mandatory information (what is mandatory also depends on the kind of website), you can easily get sued (and th…
The context of this conversation seems to have more to do with code and complexity than legal necessities but point taken. The parent was suggesting it was impossible to create the sort of simple, personal, just for fun sites that people used to, but there's no technical reason for that to be the case. It just happens that people add unnecessary complexity to their projects nowadays because 1) they use frameworks and…
> The context of this conversation seems to have more to do with code and complexity than legal necessities but point taken
The laws introduce lots of complexity, which leads to lots of requirements in the code. So this is no contradiction.
> It just happens that people add unnecessary complexity to their projects nowadays because 1) they use frameworks and tools that facilitate it and 2) it looks better on their resumes.
And 3) because the law requires such complications (in my personal perspective the largest problem that causes the most headaches). Just to give another, "more EU/less German" example:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Privacy_and_Electronic_Communi...
which requires that the user has to explicitly opt-in before a cookie is set. This of course has to be coded - otherwise risk being sued.
Re: I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked
#333Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is it richer and deeper now? Maybe at the fringes, but I feel that the internet today, with my emphasis being on the "inter" (different) "net" (networks) part of it, is far less deeper or richer than before. What we basically have reduced to are a bunch of siloed netowrks such as Facebook. When I searched for something when Google first came out I got a mix of results from a variety of sites I had never heard about.…
I'm beginning to think that there is a niche for a peculiar kind of a search engine. A search engine for static almost-none to none JavaScript pages. It would penalize pages for ad-network usage. I would really like to not have in search results most sites that try to monetize on my attention. I want raw facts and opinions. No click-bait to grab my attention or feed my internal cave man with rage. No ad-networks or d…
> It certainly would be easier than competing with Google on indexing whole of the attention-whoring Internet.
Probably not, actually; the kind of pages you describe would almost always be leaf nodes on the web graph, so your spider would need to walk "through" the attention-whoring parts to get to them, whether you kept records of doing so or not. (And it'd be very inefficient to not.)
Re: I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked
#334Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had that feeling of discovering Internet again when I used tor and surfed hidden websites for the first time and read beginner's wikis, opinions pieces such as The Matrix, etc.
I am not interested in most of the "deep web" but what you say sounds interesting. Could you please provide link to that Matrix thing? And other pieces you found interesting?
http://zqktlwi4fecvo6ri.onion/wiki/index.php/Main_Page is the wiki I stumbled upon when I first accessed hidden websites, the matrix rant is the first link, but it's not in the form of what I remember (PS: I do not endorse the content, it's mostly a critic of our society's mechanisms).
Re: I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked
#335Related to this, I had trouble finding examples of pre 1996 web design. The internet archive has a lot from 1997 onwards. The oldest live examples of sites from that era, that I know of are: http://www.w3.org/History/19921103-hypertext/hypertext/WWW/T... http://oreilly.com/gnn/gnnhome.html http://www.trincoll.edu/zines/tj/tj12.02.93/tjcontents.html The BBC also donated its Networking Club to the Internet Archive: htt…
The Space Jam (film) website is a golden example and I find it amazing that it is still functional: https://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/jam.htm (1996)
The trailers still work!
https://www.warnerbros.com/archive/spacejam/movie/cmp/jamcen...
A good demonstration of how far video on the internet has come.
160px X 120px, 8 frames per second