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How it's less free? It's easier than ever to publish something for free with knowledge that can be acquired for free and reach/collaborate with orders of magnitude more people. I remember digging through HomeSite 4.0 help file to learn what HTML tags do.
Surveillance everywhere, ads everywhere, automated armies of trolls/bots/astroturfers, censorship on the rise
Thank you and for existing dear world wide web and happy birthday,Although I can't watch your birthday because my mere CPU can't handle the complexity of this website. Thank you for adopting The Greatest language:JavaScript .I hope to achieve a certain level of fluency in Javascript that it becomes first language of my children. Thank you for helping us reinvent operating systems and name them web browsers just to be…
I, as a consumer not an academic/student/employee, buy an internet access account from my local monopoly highspeed internet provider. I'm set up with my wifi router/modem and suddenly have a LAN that can connect to a huge variety of sites via the web. Note that the web isn't in any way distinguished from the internet. For most folks, the two have become synonymous.
I have 3 (imaginary) devices to use. A phone, a gaming console, and a PC. 2 of those devices are already using a walled-garden app store, leaving only the PC as something still sort of free. So I think there's a burden on Apple/Google, and Microsoft/Sony/Nintendo to put measures in place to increase freedom and decrease the negatives of the web.
Yet they don't control the main culprits of the problems that the web faces: Twitter, Facebook, and I would add news sites comments, and Reddit, here. Those web sites do have a huge responsibility for the problems that their users have added to the web.
Their hands-off attitude allows bad actors to fester and grow, pulling people in and further spreading their message to new sites. I don't see the problem being tackled anytime soon though.
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> are going to make the web a lot less fun are going to? It already has. I'm old enough to remember a time when the web wasn't considered a synonym for the Internet, when USENET was actually useful, gopher was a thing, and one could participate in online discourse without constantly walking on eggshells. I want the early 90s Internet back.
> I want the early 90s Internet back. Here, here! Save for the whole part where we could only connect via dial-up out in Feckall, Nowhere. Could you imagine trying to download the latest Ubuntu ISO, for example, over dial-up?
It was nice when they started offering the CD/DVD copies for a donation (or free, if you were a poor kid from Feckall...)
There used to be so many fights over the phone line in those days... it shouldn't make me nostalgic but it does a little.
30 years and the WWW is about sending people to Facebook to watch a video :(
What's with the negative nitpicking? There are endless learning resources now available to people who couldn't afford an education, communities around anything you can imagine, people making a living thanks to the Internet, and the list goes on and on. Heck, I don't even have Facebook so I don't know what you're talking about.
Internet, you're not as free, wild and fun as you were 20 years ago, but I still love you.
How it's less free? It's easier than ever to publish something for free with knowledge that can be acquired for free and reach/collaborate with orders of magnitude more people. I remember digging through HomeSite 4.0 help file to learn what HTML tags do.
There is more high quality content online than there ever was—if you know how to look for it. There's also a lot more crap.
I gather the perspective on the internet/web might be very different for people who were introduced post-Google, post-Facebook, etc. For many people those are the introduction, unfortunately. I'm glad Google is featuring some bit of history there, but those large services seem to like to promote that you stay within their walls. In that way I can see the disappointment.
To quote Billy Bragg— "You've got to take the crunchy with the smooth, I suppose"
Yes hurrah for the internet! And I can’t wait until the next 30 years when we get to witness the birth of even more tedious crypto currencies with wackier names, I get to stress about my kids seeing Momo, and Facebook start tracking my bowel movements to know when I should next see a Domino’s ad. Thanks Tim! (HTTP 417)
I hope you are being sarcastic. While there are reasons to complain about the current state of the internet, it _is_ an achievement of mankind which has transformed the world in many ways.
I'm trying to think about how the web is different for a new user now vs 15 years ago. I, as a consumer not an academic/student/employee, buy an internet access account from my local monopoly highspeed internet provider. I'm set up with my wifi router/modem and suddenly have a LAN that can connect to a huge variety of sites via the web. Note that the web isn't in any way distinguished from the internet. For most folk…
I'm trying to think about how the web is different for a new user now vs 15 years ago. I, as a consumer not an academic/student/employee, buy an internet access account from my local monopoly highspeed internet provider. I'm set up with my wifi router/modem and suddenly have a LAN that can connect to a huge variety of sites via the web. Note that the web isn't in any way distinguished from the internet. For most folk…
At least Google's Android isn't a walled garden. You can just download and install APKs from random websites.
30 years and the WWW is about sending people to Facebook to watch a video :(
Even if wanted to choose the other walled garden there is this: >Please note that the Youtube recording has a time-lag on the soundtrack, so use our Facebook Live page instead for immediate access. What? CERN can't upload a coherent video+audio stream?
I would actually like to see a good explanation of the validity/nonvalidity of this. If too many people watch this video, FB maybe has the best tech to handle the load.