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Re: I Miss the Old Internet

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Post by AndrewUnmuted »

mattlondon wrote: post #12

I don't miss the days when you had to physically send a paper form with a cheque or postal order, go to a bank, wait 28 days for things to be delivered, stand in line at a post office, or phone someone up to get mundane stuff done. Can you imagine sorting out car insurance quotes or booking flights/hotels or doing your tax return without the internet? What a ballache! The modern internet has been utterly transformati…

>postal order

>a bank

>stand in line at a post office

>car insurance quotes

>booking flights/hotels

>tax return

These conveniences you cite of the modern internet all feel like they help the other side of the relationship even more than they help you. Imagine how much the airlines, banks, tax collectors, and insurance companies love the modern internet, making it all the more convenient for you to interact with their products and services! And at such scale!

My point here is that, on the intellectual front, the old internet was a lot more transformative for humankind than the state of today's "cable television as a service" internet we endure today.

Re: I Miss the Old Internet

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Post by robotstate »

ethagnawl wrote: post #117

I generally agree with the author's sentiment regarding "the Old Internet". However, using "voat" and "thank goodness" in the same breath raised a red flag for me about the author and their motives. They mentioned being kicked off raddle.me for posting links to their site (the one that's currently linked to on the top of the HN homepage); maybe that was with good reason and not a result of gatekeeping? For example, f…

The way you're just completely proving his point is amazing.

Re: I Miss the Old Internet

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Post by jtnjns »

greggman2 wrote: post #128
notJim wrote: post #5

I generally agree. I've taken to appending "reddit" to many of my search queries, because flawed though it is, reddit is one of the few places you can read an actual human thought. It feels like nearly all content on the internet is some de-personalized corporate "content marketing" blog at this point. Just give us your email address and we'll send you a PDF (and a drip marketing campaign.) I think the old internet w…

where are you looking on Reddit? I find crickets for every topic I look for.

I think they mean searching using a search engine but appending reddit to the query.

For example if I search “best vpn” I’ll get loads of VPN review blog spam who are just pushing the provider with the highest affiliate commission.

If I search “best vpn reddit” I should get discussion from real people about services they have used.

Re: I Miss the Old Internet

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Post by hnzix »

ethagnawl wrote: post #117

I generally agree with the author's sentiment regarding "the Old Internet". However, using "voat" and "thank goodness" in the same breath raised a red flag for me about the author and their motives. They mentioned being kicked off raddle.me for posting links to their site (the one that's currently linked to on the top of the HN homepage); maybe that was with good reason and not a result of gatekeeping? For example, f…

Can you please link to the list of Empirically Correct Viewpoints™ so that I can identify and purge myself of thoughtcrimes?

Re: I Miss the Old Internet

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Post by fortran77 »

ethagnawl wrote: post #117

I generally agree with the author's sentiment regarding "the Old Internet". However, using "voat" and "thank goodness" in the same breath raised a red flag for me about the author and their motives. They mentioned being kicked off raddle.me for posting links to their site (the one that's currently linked to on the top of the HN homepage); maybe that was with good reason and not a result of gatekeeping? For example, f…

So because you don't like some of their content it's a "good thing" that it's hard to find on the Internet?

I guess I miss the old internet, too.

Re: I Miss the Old Internet

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Post by grrowl »

ethagnawl wrote: post #117

I generally agree with the author's sentiment regarding "the Old Internet". However, using "voat" and "thank goodness" in the same breath raised a red flag for me about the author and their motives. They mentioned being kicked off raddle.me for posting links to their site (the one that's currently linked to on the top of the HN homepage); maybe that was with good reason and not a result of gatekeeping? For example, f…

I was very much on-board with his message until he brought up voat and raddle existing, "Thank goodness". Oh dear.

Re: I Miss the Old Internet

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Post by fortran77 »

hnzix wrote: post #134
ethagnawl wrote: post #117

I generally agree with the author's sentiment regarding "the Old Internet". However, using "voat" and "thank goodness" in the same breath raised a red flag for me about the author and their motives. They mentioned being kicked off raddle.me for posting links to their site (the one that's currently linked to on the top of the HN homepage); maybe that was with good reason and not a result of gatekeeping? For example, f…

Can you please link to the list of Empirically Correct Viewpoints™ so that I can identify and purge myself of thoughtcrimes?

Let me guess! It's probably something like this:

https://www.rust-lang.org/policies/code-of-conduct

Re: I Miss the Old Internet

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Post by ChristianBundy »

robotstate wrote: post #132
ethagnawl wrote: post #117

I generally agree with the author's sentiment regarding "the Old Internet". However, using "voat" and "thank goodness" in the same breath raised a red flag for me about the author and their motives. They mentioned being kicked off raddle.me for posting links to their site (the one that's currently linked to on the top of the HN homepage); maybe that was with good reason and not a result of gatekeeping? For example, f…

The way you're just completely proving his point is amazing.

Voat is a breeding ground and gathering place for white supremacists.

A small selection of the top posts on Voat right now:

- "jew politician calls for war on whites" -> http://magaimg.net/img/9f2p.png

- "NFL player's wife accuses Dolphins owner of favoring 'Jew buddies'" -> https://www.timesofisrael.com/nfl-players-wife-accuses-dolph...

- "Everything's about race. Every single thing is about race. Remember that it's all about race, everything. All of it." -- member-only discussion

- "Voat in a nutshell" -> https://files.catbox.moe/se4iny.jpg

Re: I Miss the Old Internet

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Post by momentoftop »

zozbot234 wrote: post #50
Sohcahtoa82 wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Start hosting your website from home. This isn't feasible for a large chunk of the population, mainly because ISPs like Comcast love to give you 500 mbps down while limiting your upload to a pitiful 10 mbps. Host a single 100K image that hits the front page of reddit and your home internet gets hugged to death.

IPFS solves this. You only need to host an index of the content, plus the "seed" copy, for anyone else to download and mirror as they please.

It solves it so long as you are happy to upload several gigabytes a day seeding nothing just to keep up with DHT chatter:

https://github.com/ipfs/go-ipfs/issues/3429

Re: I Miss the Old Internet

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Post by walrus01 »

grrowl wrote: post #136
ethagnawl wrote: post #117

I generally agree with the author's sentiment regarding "the Old Internet". However, using "voat" and "thank goodness" in the same breath raised a red flag for me about the author and their motives. They mentioned being kicked off raddle.me for posting links to their site (the one that's currently linked to on the top of the HN homepage); maybe that was with good reason and not a result of gatekeeping? For example, f…

I was very much on-board with his message until he brought up voat and raddle existing, "Thank goodness". Oh dear.

"Hello? Whole man disposal services? Do you offer same day pickup?"
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