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Wow the internet really took a nosedive the last few months.
I like to think of it as a reset to early 2000s internet, which was basically the golden age.
I hope you’re right. Everything was a lot more wild. You’d discover a blog through some link and feel like an adventurer explorer a blank part of the map. It was much more fun.
Stumbleupon!
I miss Stumbleupon. I wish someone would attempt to create a spiritual successor to it. I found so much good stuff with it back in the day.
Yeah I miss it too. I found a nice community of people there too.
I still maintain a regular blog. Have for a long time!
(https://semioticstandard.com for the curious)
I think I might run a personal website, if this trend back towards the wild-ish west continues.
I was too young back then and in the past years I felt that it'd be too weird, but why not, right?
Yeah, it seems like people made the internet something valuable, a bunch of commercial businesses turned up to take the reins so they could harvest hat value for wealth for investors, it's reached a point where that juice is no longer worth the squeeze for them and we'll go back to a phase where the progress and generation of value will revert back to regular people again for a while. Likely that balance will then tip back towards profitability again and the cycle will start anew.
@Piers @z500 I remember in the early days of commercialization of the interwebs, the capitalists just could *not* wrap their heads around the idea of *sharing*. Legalities aside, putting music or art or whatever that you had spent money and time on, and then just... putting it out there for anyone was so foreign to them.
We may be past the point of a profit driven internet. At least in terms of social media. I would like to hope that we’re at least close.
Tech bubble is over.
Let's hope the old web returns.
I don’t believe that
To be fair, this really does feel like the dot com bubble all over again
You know, come to think of it, the internet has been oddly stable for the past decade. Prior to modern social media, sites used to come and go all the time. I had to switch forums twice because the ones I was using shut down. Same for my image hosting sites and flash game sites. We were honestly due for a major shake up.
Very true. The only sites I've seen disappear and pop up semi-regularly in the last years were of the Youtube-to-MP3 type.
remember that one year a few years ago when all the celebrities died? was it 2016? now we're getting the internet version.
Oh man, let's do politicians next!
billionaires
I do believe there's room for both.
It's going to have to be a much bigger submarine though.
Nah, we just need a ferry, and a whole bunch of wash bins and concrete.