So, not sure what is meant by “old internet “ ... is meaning 1980’s BBS ‘s ? Because the equivalent of those probably still exist for those who seek. Is meaning 1990’s and early noughties? Or is meaning the noughties in their entirety?
I Miss the Old Internet
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#312The old internet is still there, it's still growing. It's just covered in a thick layer of corporate shit sites. All you have to do is be the change you want to see. Start hosting your website from home. Code it by hand. Don't use any javascript frontends. It's a good time. As for finding others, well, HN isn't a bad place to start. Just install an RSS reader client and every time you find yourself enjoying an articl…
Neocities[1] and tilde servers like tilde.town[2] is a pretty large hub of old-internet sites. It's a free Geocities-like host that's home to a lot of neat, creative sites. You can also get a VPS for about $5/mo and have your own self-hosted server with whatever servers and web apps you want, like an RSS reader, an IRC client, FTP/Gopher server, etc. (Shameless self plug: this is what I do with my own personal site,…
This is great, thanks for sharing. It's great to see a community like Neocities come to life with no ads and no bullshit.
Re: I Miss the Old Internet
#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
I only user Reddit a few times a month, specific focused subreddits, but find it invaluable for hive mind opinion/debate without product shilling (which is all you get on Google or Youtube). Reddit is great. It reminds me of Usenet back in the day I suppose it can get addictive too, but I haven't found that to be the case for me, not yet anyway. HN on the other hand... :)
The problem with reddit is that you get downvoted simply for going against the hivemind, even if you supply evidence that you are right. It's impossible to have a meaningful conversation on the more popular subreddits, especially on politics.
Politics, internet, meaningful conversation - choose two
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#314I generally agree. I've taken to appending "reddit" to many of my search queries, because flawed though it is, reddit is one of the few places you can read an actual human thought. It feels like nearly all content on the internet is some de-personalized corporate "content marketing" blog at this point. Just give us your email address and we'll send you a PDF (and a drip marketing campaign.) I think the old internet w…
If you tend to do this a lot and use Chrome, you might find the tweak this comment inspired for me useful: open chrome://settings/searchEngines add a new search engine, called anything you want, with a convenient shortcut. I use "r". The important bit is the search string this expands to: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+%s This does exactly what it looks like: search google for whatever you're looki…
reddit's search has been a running joke for as long as I've been using reddit* and I worry that improving it this late in the game might unexpectedly wipe out the entire site and severely damage the surrounding internet.
*Just checked. 9 years. Gulp.
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#315Earlier quoted context omitted.
The problem with reddit is that you get downvoted simply for going against the hivemind, even if you supply evidence that you are right. It's impossible to have a meaningful conversation on the more popular subreddits, especially on politics.
Politics, internet, meaningful conversation - choose two
Can I just have internet?
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#316The old internet is still there, it's still growing. It's just covered in a thick layer of corporate shit sites. All you have to do is be the change you want to see. Start hosting your website from home. Code it by hand. Don't use any javascript frontends. It's a good time. As for finding others, well, HN isn't a bad place to start. Just install an RSS reader client and every time you find yourself enjoying an articl…
I've been missing the old internet. A little while ago I tried to find StumbleUpon and discovered it's transformed into more of a social media thing. I took a couple days to recreate what I thought of as the core StumbleUpon functionality - click button, get random site. And I've been trying to aggregate what feel like unique, individual, not well known sites into my index for it. https://stumblingon.com It currently…
I used to love StumbleUpon. I haven't thought about it for years. Thanks so much for making this. Let me know if you need an extra human to moderate submissions or whatever :)
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#317Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you tend to do this a lot and use Chrome, you might find the tweak this comment inspired for me useful: open chrome://settings/searchEngines add a new search engine, called anything you want, with a convenient shortcut. I use "r". The important bit is the search string this expands to: https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Areddit.com+%s This does exactly what it looks like: search google for whatever you're looki…
reddit's search has been a running joke for as long as I've been using reddit* and I worry that improving it this late in the game might unexpectedly wipe out the entire site and severely damage the surrounding internet. *Just checked. 9 years. Gulp.
Johnny come lately, eh? https://www.reddit.com/user/mattknox :)