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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.
Why? It's minimalism, isn't it?
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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?
Implying we should 'fix' Eternal September is pretty close to implying we should keep important technology out of the hands of those the current users deem unworthy. That prevents both spam and the Arab Spring, both 4chan and Wikileaks.
Keeping the Internet as it was prior to 1991, when commercial access was first allowed, means keeping it a small, controlled entity with obvious choke points that make it trivial to censor or kill entirely. It largely prevents its use for social or political change other than the kinds of change its owners want to see. It would trivialize the Internet by relegating it to a tiny fraction of its current usefulness.
It's easy to idealize what we had. However, losing sight of what we have now, and what we could have, is actively harmful to the prospect of future moral growth.
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#353This is typography
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That's a great anecdote. Out of curiosity, how did you find the site? I had just turned four at the time, so I don't quite remember what browsing the Internet was like then.
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…
Yes! I will gladly second that.
The sheer amount of information back then was nothing compared to what it was today, but it was so much easier to browse around. Something as trivial as a webring was a cement for a community rather than a pledge for traffic.
Despite the nostalgia, I do think that, overall, the WWW experience has mostly gotten better since then, if only for the amount of information and communication. However, the density of quality has rather shrunk...
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#355Thanks for bringing me back to 1994.
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#356It's the anti qz.com.
Why is there so much hate for Quartz on here? It may be hard to read on a mobile device, but if you focus on just the articles it is very distraction free and easy to read. Nit-picking is fine, but overly criticizing is stupid when qz.com is miles ahead of almost every other publishing outlet online. Would you rather see more sites like qz.com that focus on content and navigation or more sites like traditional newspa…
I don't know either. I really like qz.com, I just tried visiting it on my iPhone, articles are easy to read. The sidebar allows me to quickly find other content on the site. It's great.
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#357Except Web Design has long been more similar to commercials, which have next to nothing to communicate except "BUY ME!"
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Wireshark doesn't think so: 9792 42.750939000 74.125.109.232 10.1.1.21 TCP 1506 [TCP segment of a reassembled PDU]
Dunno, I tried loading a YouTube page and capturing packets. Only ports in use were 443 and 80, even to the cdn-like hostnames (bla.c.youtube.com). First packet shows "GET /videoplayback?...."
Youtube uses RTMP on port 80.
RTMPT is RTMP over HTTP, but Youtube doesn't use it.
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#359This is why I love https://github.com/circa75/dropplets
Simple, minimalist, publish through markdown. I stripped the Twitter button out of my fork because I thought even that was too much clutter (example: http://notes.darkfunction.com). Now I have just a list of articles, with a link to each article, and I can't think why I would need any more. I always found article history navigation on traditional bogs tedious (how am I supposed to know which month/year you wrote what I am looking for?) and as for social media buttons, if I want to put your post on my Facebook page I don't need a button to do it.
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#360understand the core, and do things as simple as possible.