The old internet died and we watched and did nothing
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The old internet died and we watched and did nothing
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#2OK, Buzzfeed.
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#4The old internet died long before these centralized services appeared. The old internet was when we ran our own servers, built and hosted our own websites, and we were truly free in the wild wild west.
Its easier than ever to run your own servers, but today few do.
The old internet is dead (for now) and it looks more like the BBS era today. But we innovated past that then, and we will innovate past that now.
I am greatly looking forward to all of the decentralization work that is in progress from the numerous people on HN and the internet.
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#5OK, Buzzfeed.
Yep, still doing listicles.
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#6Is this a joke? I mean, it's buzzfeed, so it obviously is, but seriously?
That internet didn't die at all! You're looking at the same thing with different company names! Myspace and Facebook are the same thing with a different skin.
I figured this would be an article about like, vBulletin forums, IRC, tilde pages, something like that.
They all still exist, you're just not using them, why don't you start?
Re: The old internet died and we watched and did nothing
#7OK, Buzzfeed.
how was that not a trap?
Re: The old internet died and we watched and did nothing
#8The old internet died long before these centralized services appeared. The old internet was when we ran our own servers, built and hosted our own websites, and we were truly free in the wild wild west. Its easier than ever to run your own servers, but today few do. The old internet is dead (for now) and it looks more like the BBS era today. But we innovated past that then, and we will innovate past that now. I am gre…
If we want a (return to the) boom in open-source and paid standards-based solutions, we gotta ban collecting & monetizing user info. Monetized user info & related advertising paying for "free" walled services are keeping those down. We won't see widely-successful standards-based social networks or messaging services until that option is gone.
[EDIT] and wide success/adoption matters for those in particular because much of their utility is in "everyone's on it" (where "it" may be some other, but interoperable, service)
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Re: The old internet died and we watched and did nothing
#10The old internet died long before these centralized services appeared. The old internet was when we ran our own servers, built and hosted our own websites, and we were truly free in the wild wild west. Its easier than ever to run your own servers, but today few do. The old internet is dead (for now) and it looks more like the BBS era today. But we innovated past that then, and we will innovate past that now. I am gre…
The problem is economies of scale, as it's easier to pay someone who specializes in that sort of thing to host your things for you than to do it yourself.
Even I, a nerd who otherwise loves the old internet, don't self-host my website but use a provider (Neocities). When you compare learning HTML/CSS to make your own, quirky, beautiful website with spending five seconds making a Facebook/whatnot page, convenience will almost always win.