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

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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 by Dalewyn »

varjag wrote: post #147
mulmen wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They didn’t eat the entire Internet. They didn’t even eat the web. They set up parallel walled gardens. The web is still there. Personal websites just don’t scale to the masses. This is fine and probably for the best.

It's a nice theory if not for the fact that one never seem to run into things like these off Web searches.

That speaks more to the gentrification of search engines and their results rather than the loss of small, independent websites.

Once upon a time, I could search for something on Yahoo or Google and get nothing but those kinds of websites in search results, even when some central repository sites like Wikipedia were starting to take root.

Everything changed when the SEO nation attacked, and nobody expected the social media inquisition.

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

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Post by varjag »

duncan-donuts wrote: post #160
varjag wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a nice theory if not for the fact that one never seem to run into things like these off Web searches.

You used to be able to find them deep in search results but now it’s all blogspam. It’d be nice if this stuff was easier to find.

Yes you used to be able maybe in mid/late-aughties. This is not something recent.

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

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Post by RGamma »

mulmen wrote: post #143
RGamma wrote: post #132

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I'm not and yet the fate of a population is not arbitrary. MSM is society-level technology and it's clearly doing something to it that would not have happened in its absence. I'm seeing it in personal acquaintances, who get lost in the information garbage sphere and struggle to contextualize the places that unfavorably shape their belief system (not talking about niche crackpot sites, but trash media here). This is t…

What do you mean by MSM? To me that is “mainstream media”. I don’t understand how that is applicable here.

Mainstream social (or entertainment) media, by which I mean all the content consumption apps your typical non-tech parents or acquaintances in that age group know about (in my case Instagram, Facebook and ragebait meme groups but luckily not yet TikTok; the wider web outside news sites is pretty much unknown).

Reddit or Mastodon for instance I would not call mainstream from my standpoint, but I left the former site many years ago and have no idea about its current popularity (my only contemporary use is when it pops up in my searches as a sort of wildcard forum).

Sorry, if that's not the usual usage of MSM.

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

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Post by varjag »

Dalewyn wrote: post #161
varjag wrote: post #147

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a nice theory if not for the fact that one never seem to run into things like these off Web searches.

That speaks more to the gentrification of search engines and their results rather than the loss of small, independent websites. Once upon a time, I could search for something on Yahoo or Google and get nothing but those kinds of websites in search results, even when some central repository sites like Wikipedia were starting to take root. Everything changed when the SEO nation attacked, and nobody expected the social…

It's both. Loss of discoverability leads to ecological collapse of personal website. There's little point when the only reader is destined to be its own author.

Period true search methods (webrings, curated indexes, portals and early search engines) are gone and so is the fighting chance for this kind of projects.

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

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Post by s1artibartfast »

3cats-in-a-coat wrote: post #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 mo…

I still don't believe modern we design is actually preferred by the masses.

Ofen times it isn't even a balance between aesthetics an clarity, because the modern pages are broken or otherwise unusable.

It has gotten to the point where I wonder if maybe I'm not neurotypical. I'll take sites formatted like Craigslist 100% of the time.

Now I'm just waiting for windows OS to fully replace file navigation text with iconography and I won't be able to use a computer

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

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Post by Aeolun »

ficklepickle wrote: post #118
IshKebab wrote: post #98

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I feel like I need a more comprehensive explanation of jelly/jam. So jam is the same in both countries? What is jelly in America then?

Wikipedia to the rescue! > jelly (from the French gelée)[29] is a clear or translucent fruit spread made by a process similar to that used for making jam, with the additional step of filtering out the fruit pulp after the initial cooking. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fruit_preserves#Jelly

That seems entirely counterproductive. Why remove the fruit from jam?

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

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Post by mensetmanusman »

varjag wrote: post #147
mulmen wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They didn’t eat the entire Internet. They didn’t even eat the web. They set up parallel walled gardens. The web is still there. Personal websites just don’t scale to the masses. This is fine and probably for the best.

It's a nice theory if not for the fact that one never seem to run into things like these off Web searches.

This doesn't make Google money.
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