The last sentence can’t be true. If you go looking for them, they’re easy to find. The problem is you don’t.
Does anyone remember websites?
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#12Does anyone remember geocities, tripod, webrings, and Amazon affiliate links?
Pepperidge farm remembers...
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#13> You’ve enabled HTTPS-Only Mode for enhanced security, and a HTTPS version of tttthis.com is not available. This, too, is nostalgic, in a way.
It's silly to try and encrypt everything, and arguably it can be worse for the authors privacy. Sometimes a blog post on a plain http web site doesnt need to be encrypted.
What’s the argument that it can be worse for the author’s privacy?
In general, I think we should encrypt everything. The more encrypted stuff floating around, the less it stands out, and the better for everybody’s privacy. Of course, nowadays encrypted content is quite common. But it didn’t become that way without effort!
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#14The early internet was like some settlers' shacks, built uncontrollably and unsystematically whereas the modern web is all skyscrapers, residential and business. Uniform apartments, uniform offices all looking very similar differeing in only subtle interior design details here and there. Should we go back to the shack era? Of course not. But maybe we should start a new era of land exploration and start over. It shoul…
The only thing missing from your analogy is the fact that the shacks were filled with personal diaries and curios, while the skyscrapers are mostly chock-full of homogenous sewage slurry.
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#15> You’ve enabled HTTPS-Only Mode for enhanced security, and a HTTPS version of tttthis.com is not available. This, too, is nostalgic, in a way.
It's silly to try and encrypt everything, and arguably it can be worse for the authors privacy. Sometimes a blog post on a plain http web site doesnt need to be encrypted.
If you don‘t encrypt everything a malicious actor like some ISPs can inject nasty things like pervasive tracking or zero day exploits.
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#16> You’ve enabled HTTPS-Only Mode for enhanced security, and a HTTPS version of tttthis.com is not available. This, too, is nostalgic, in a way.
It's silly to try and encrypt everything, and arguably it can be worse for the authors privacy. Sometimes a blog post on a plain http web site doesnt need to be encrypted.
It helps against this kind of stuff (2015)
https://blog.fox-it.com/2015/04/20/deep-dive-into-quantum-in...
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#18The early internet was like some settlers' shacks, built uncontrollably and unsystematically whereas the modern web is all skyscrapers, residential and business. Uniform apartments, uniform offices all looking very similar differeing in only subtle interior design details here and there. Should we go back to the shack era? Of course not. But maybe we should start a new era of land exploration and start over. It shoul…
> Should we go back to the shack era? Of course not.
This isn’t obvious, at least, we can’t write the idea off with an “of course not.”
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#19The last sentence can’t be true. If you go looking for them, they’re easy to find. The problem is you don’t.
Sort of. There are many confounding factors here. For one, they're harder to find because the number of personal websites doesn't scale as quickly as commercial content and SEO spam. It's also a bit of a vicious cycle, because if your website is less likely to be read by anyone, why bother writing it in the first place?
But for the most part, the very people bemoaning the current state of affairs then go back to scrolling through TikTok / Instagram / Facebook / Reddit.
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#20The early internet was like some settlers' shacks, built uncontrollably and unsystematically whereas the modern web is all skyscrapers, residential and business. Uniform apartments, uniform offices all looking very similar differeing in only subtle interior design details here and there. Should we go back to the shack era? Of course not. But maybe we should start a new era of land exploration and start over. It shoul…
The only thing missing from your analogy is the fact that the shacks were filled with personal diaries and curios, while the skyscrapers are mostly chock-full of homogenous sewage slurry.
Also the shacks weren’t really particularly shabby or anything, they were just more like well-enough-constructed single family homes.
Old websites before scripting became popular were pretty much solid in that boring-tech way. Hardware and networks were not as reliable, but the sites themselves could be fine via simplicity.
Modern overdesigned sites are sort of like modern apartment buildings: shitty build quality under fake plastic marble and wood.