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Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

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post #42

It's awesome how you can stumble upon sites that are so funny or interesting (in multiple ways) that you just want to share them immediately forward. Everyone says it but it's true: something just got lost in translation when social media pages ate the whole internet.

My theory is that it's that on many of these sites there's no easy way to comment, like or otherwise publicly interact. Sure you could try and email the person but that takes effort and you have to talk directly to them, not to a crowd.

When you don't have to worry about a mob of negativity, you can write far more freely.

Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

#103
I actually love this, and I bookmarked it.

Why? Not just because of nostalgia.

Web 1.0 sites had a different set of UI idioms, which seem unintuitive to us, as we're too set in our new ways now. If you get past the fact they're ugly by modern standards, you'll see these sites accomplishing amazing results through startlingly simple means.

It's an excellent source of inspiration, and if you combine those ideas with modern design, but keep it minimal, I believe there's a lot of potential to create something compelling.

This is the same reason for which I like reviewing old OS GUIs, old apps and even UIs in movies sometimes (but not the modern take which just slaps animated circles and gradients on everything, I mean actual UIs showing something readable/usable).

Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

#105
post #16

What exactly marks the difference between Web 1.0, Web 2.0 and Web 3.0? I read these terms all the time, is there a good explanation?

1.0 was mostly static web pages with content changes largely driven by manual page updates to static web resources. This was the era where most sites were powered by an httpd host. 2.0 was when databases and ajax (JavaScript async) started to take over as a web content delivery form. Often content delivery moved from semantic page navigation flows to "single page applications" where the client state was often held cl…

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Re: Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

#107
post #86
post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I've found consistently scarier this past decade+ is the casualness and seeming inevitability with which vast swathes of the population can be captured by unfavorable technology and social spaces or narratives. And yeah, what you and others here often enough describe(d) are the shadows on the wall. Keeping civilization and culture on track really is a constant struggle.

Vast swaths of the population are uninteresting rubes. Reddit, Facebook, and Twitter are all doing us a favor by keeping those people occupied and their drivel contained.

The MSM/MEM as population control vehicle/idiot honeypot is a salient angle though you quickly get into self-fulfilling prophecy stuff there. Perhaps it's me being overly pessimistic, but I too might have been captured by the mind-rot matrix if I had grown up with that shit, never knowing what was or could be.
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