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Doors I touched today (1999)

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Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

#31

If you like this, you will love the book The Design of Everyday Things. You will never look at a door the same way again. https://a.co/d/65WzcpJ

Instead, you'll learn to get mildly angry every time you come across doors so poorly designed it _must_ be on purpose.

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

#35
post #29

...and I thought I was the only one photographing apparently pointless stuff. I like this.

When I'm doing home repair and my endoscope isn't handy I use my phone as a periscope. Because of this it is full of "pointless" photos e.g. dozens of out-of-focus shots behind my AV receiver in my stereo cabinet to make sure I didn't over-strain a cable while pushing it back. Does this count as pointless stuff?

It could! The art is in the curation.

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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post #5

It's sites like these that make me dearly miss the old internet. Then I remember that the old internet is mostly still there, just buried under the ad-riddled mass-produced garbage pile of the current internet, and there are ways to dig through to it, but I never do.

Exactly my sentiment. I’d like to add that I’m grieving the discoverability of all these ingenious self made often a bit unpolished experiences. Platforms come to provide a shiny space for the makers and then slowly enshittify everything snuffing out the life out of the originals. Just like Disney ;)

There's a search engine for it.

https://wiby.me/

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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post #5

It's sites like these that make me dearly miss the old internet. Then I remember that the old internet is mostly still there, just buried under the ad-riddled mass-produced garbage pile of the current internet, and there are ways to dig through to it, but I never do.

you dug through today, barbs

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

#38

It's amazing that pathogens capable of living on surfaces haven't wiped us out already. Thanks immune system.

I firmly believe the number of upper respiratory infections I have each year is directly proportional to the number of doors I have to touch throughout the day. Once worked for a well-known fruit company with a reputation for paranoia and secrecy, and because of that secrecy, everything was behind locked doors. Therefore, I constantly had to handle doors throughout the day to do anything at work. I'm pretty sure during those years I was on average sicker than ever.

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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post #5

It's sites like these that make me dearly miss the old internet. Then I remember that the old internet is mostly still there, just buried under the ad-riddled mass-produced garbage pile of the current internet, and there are ways to dig through to it, but I never do.

Exactly my sentiment. I’d like to add that I’m grieving the discoverability of all these ingenious self made often a bit unpolished experiences. Platforms come to provide a shiny space for the makers and then slowly enshittify everything snuffing out the life out of the originals. Just like Disney ;)

"enshittify" for the win

Re: Doors I touched today (1999)

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post #21
post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's so much harder to find the good parts of the web like this than it used to be that it drains a lot of the fun out of it.

Is there any particular technique anyone uses to find sites like this? About the only way I know of is to happen across a link to them on some forum, like this instance.

Not the World Wide Web, but Gemini and Gopher has this feel. There are multiple aggregators [1][2] that bubble up new and interesting content from individuals.

1. https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/gemini.circumlunar.space/capco...

2. https://portal.mozz.us/gemini/rawtext.club/~sloum/spacewalk....

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