It’s a great ad! Sadly the underlying message is simply not true. Regardless of the browser you use (and I do use firefox) the old internet is no longer there. Now it’s just four apps full of brain dead content. It’s quite sad actually. Loved the video though, it made me smile :_)
Check out my Myspace page, while you’re there you can find me on Digg and google video! /s
I used to read a lot of comics on the internet, pretty sure I hit mid to high 60s of bookmarks. 80% of them no longer exist.
Even the newer sites for things like finding niche products have been wiped, I used Massdrop for an age to get some good tech, now its owned by corsair and sells absofuckinglutely nothing.
The modern rules of the internet are “If it doesnt make more money than god then it’s not worth shit, if it does, then it’s bought out by a shady conglomerate then used to harvest your data”
I don’t know, small personal websites and webrings are having a bit of a comeback. Federated networks are humming along ,if not growing. AI is, ironically, making it much easier for people to build their own tools and ditch SaaS.
I still have hope for a decentralization comeback.
I’m working on a website, and to ensure it had the old Internet charm I’m doing everything from scratch. Learning html and css on the go and using bright colors. I hope some friends would make their own sites at some point so we could have our own little web ring, or find strangers who are doing similar things to me. I’ve been using wiby.me to find random cool sites but I wonder if there are places where people who are in a similar niche can hangout (that’s perhaps more active than !keepwriting@lemmy.world
It’s a great ad! Sadly the underlying message is simply not true. Regardless of the browser you use (and I do use firefox) the old internet is no longer there. Now it’s just four apps full of brain dead content. It’s quite sad actually. Loved the video though, it made me smile :_)
The old internet is still around. It just doesn’t show very high on most search engines because of SEO bullshittery
I started blocking sites like Facebook, Amazon, Instagram and every AI slop in my search results and it made everything so much better.
It’s still there, folks have just gotten so used to using those same four shit apps that they forgot how to surf the web.
Check out my Myspace page, while you’re there you can find me on Digg and google video! /s
I used to read a lot of comics on the internet, pretty sure I hit mid to high 60s of bookmarks. 80% of them no longer exist.
Even the newer sites for things like finding niche products have been wiped, I used Massdrop for an age to get some good tech, now its owned by corsair and sells absofuckinglutely nothing.
The modern rules of the internet are “If it doesnt make more money than god then it’s not worth shit, if it does, then it’s bought out by a shady conglomerate then used to harvest your data”
I don’t know, small personal websites and webrings are having a bit of a comeback. Federated networks are humming along ,if not growing. AI is, ironically, making it much easier for people to build their own tools and ditch SaaS.
I still have hope for a decentralization comeback.
I’m working on a website, and to ensure it had the old Internet charm I’m doing everything from scratch. Learning html and css on the go and using bright colors. I hope some friends would make their own sites at some point so we could have our own little web ring, or find strangers who are doing similar things to me. I’ve been using wiby.me to find random cool sites but I wonder if there are places where people who are in a similar niche can hangout (that’s perhaps more active than !keepwriting@lemmy.world
It’s been cyclical so far!