The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back
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The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back
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#3"technology is cyclical" -Dennis Duffy, 30 Rock.
Jokes aside, I do not know if this is me getting older and becoming more grouchy and/or some of the tools (Gmail, Google Search, macOS/MacBook ) we've been using for a while are becoming more obtuse and less user (or power user) friendly in name of
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#4http://web.archive.org/web/20220125222736/https://cheapskate...
This post is from yesterday. Why the Internet Archive link?
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#5I sure hope that's right. It was the best feeling in the world to stand up an Apache server on my Amiga, and later my little FreeBSD server, and see my friends viewing the website I was hosting on my dialup connection. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't elegant, and it certainly wasn't fast, but it was mine. I made that. From installing the server to writing the HTML, I owned that service from end to end and had completely freedom to do whatever I wanted with it.
That's what I want the Internet to look like for my younger family and friends. It'll probably never happen exactly this way, but I can picture someone running an IPv6-only service on their phone to impress their friends. I know what their smile would look like because that was once my smile, too.
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#7I sure hope that's right. It was the best feeling in the world to stand up an Apache server on my Amiga, and later my little FreeBSD server, and see my friends viewing the website I was hosting on my dialup connection. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't elegant, and it certainly wasn't fast, but it was mine . I made that. From installing the server to writing the HTML, I owned that service from end to end and had completely…
Yeah no, I wish we don't go back to that. It doesn't scale at all.
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#8"technology is cyclical" -Dennis Duffy, 30 Rock. Jokes aside, I do not know if this is me getting older and becoming more grouchy and/or some of the tools (Gmail, Google Search, macOS/MacBook ) we've been using for a while are becoming more obtuse and less user (or power user) friendly in name of
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#10After layering abstractions on top of abstractions, and centralizing onto a few providers it makes sense to simplify and diversify again.
I miss things being presented via their own unique web sites as opposed to “pages” within the current top social network.