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Re: This is a web page

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Post by hobs »

dwd wrote: post #311
at-fates-hands wrote: post #279

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>There was also Usenet which people often posted links on and which was sorted by topic and a handy way to find stuff. When my college roommate showed me how to download a graduate student's thesis from Usenet, I thought my head was going to explode I thought it was so cool. Here I am, halfway across the country, and I can download, read and cite some grad student's paper from the University of California Berkeley. I…

You had alt.religion.kibology and the first crowd-sourcing app in The Internet Oracle. The technology changes but we seem to keep reinventing the wheel every time the cart gets overcrowded.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September What should we do about it?

Re: This is a web page

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Post by angrytoast »

The future of the web is ideas, and the medium that it is delivered through, whether it be test, video, audio, or whatever that I can begin to comprehend, will hopefully be one that will be seen by as many as possible.

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Post by [deleted] »

williamcotton wrote: post #240
lelandbatey wrote: post #162

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I feel that words are the best way to communicate because words are born purely out of us; they are literally our thoughts in physical form. Videos, music, pictures, are all representations of physical things in the world around us; words are representations of the worlds inside us.

I sometimes have a hard time putting certain thoughts or feelings in to words, in which case I either draw a picture, play a melody, or use one of the other myriad forms of expression available to me to communicate with others. I in no way feel like I am translating these thoughts from words to these other forms of expression. I have a much easier time singing a melody than transcribing it. I have to force the music…

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Re: This is a web page

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Post by qw »

SilasX wrote: post #303
petercooper wrote: post #239

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Because other people have given good answers, I just wanted to add.. the Web was so much better linked together back then. Prior to Altavista made searching useful most of the time, it was common to rely on jumping from one site to another through plentiful link pages, web rings, and lists of resources that people had put together. There was also Usenet which people often posted links on and which was sorted by topic…

As late as 1998 I remember a friend griping about people who said that a site on topic X was good "because of the links".

Couldn't the same be said about Hacker News? Search has improved, but we still rely on "sites with links" to find interesting content.

Re: This is a web page

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Post by Myrmornis »

pg wrote: post #330
Myrmornis wrote: post #329

> This is a web page. Pretentious drivel more like.

If that's all you have to say, better to say nothing.

I respectfully disagree with this ethos of positivity or nothing. Criticism is a valuable thing. We don't want our discourse to resemble some sort of Christian summer camp.

Re: This is a web page

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Post by bad_user »

derleth wrote: post #112
bad_user wrote: post #43

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> We run into trouble when we adopt some sort of "minimalism, always, ever, for everything" dogma. Evidence? Examples?

Use only the text editor ed for your next project. Oh, and no version control. Don't tell me that's impossible, either, because we both know it isn't.

That's a stupid analogy dude.

Re: This is a web page

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Post by adregan »

nhamann wrote: post #256

I had an insight a few months back when I was looking at djb's website ( http://cr.yp.to/djb.html ). I was spending far too much time playing with toys (static site generators) and not enough time actually producing interesting content. Nobody cares about your pretty blog theme, they care about your ideas .

I've been adopting an incremental approach. Enough style to get you going, and as you produce content, you refine the design. So by the time you announce it to your friends, the world, etc., you've got a bit of content and a good looking site.

Re: This is a web page

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Post by vivekian2 »

I think what I really miss is reading web pages which were truly written from the heart. I remember even as far as back in 2005, for a search like "unrequited love", Google's top hit would be a link to a physics Phd's home page who had written about his multiple experiences of being declared 'just a friend' and how to get past being rejected over and over again.

Jump to today and the Google search yields following the obvious wikipedia link, is a whole bunch of wikihow, nytimes, urban dictionary and youtube links.

Those personal web pages with an intellectually rich content have just been lost to the dark internet.

Re: This is a web page

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Post by haldujai »

raymondduke wrote: post #326
hnriot wrote: post #147

This guy is living in the 90's. Today the web is a platform for providing digital services. Words are a very small part of the story.

You couldn't be more wrong.

Actually, he couldn't be more right. This post is the internet equivalent of a newspaper article, really simple and some people will like it, but you can't really sell anything in that format or build a community.

Modern, design based websites, are the equivalent of magazines. People would rather read the Economist in color than (insert newspaper here) in black and white by far.

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