Comment on Do you like the centralized wen of today?
TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
The modern internet is very sterile, sanitised, and boring. It is a hollow and empty shell of what it once was.
That means you need to get out more.
The old Internet is still out there; it’s just that it is as flaky and hard to navigate as it always has been.
The “modern” Internet is just a select number of services that send each other traffic and run by the algorithm.
Most of the Internet I use in my spare time is stuff that’s been around since the 90s and still has about the same number of users it had then. Some of it is even indexed by search engines.
Could you give some pointers?
Well, browse Google below the SEO dreck. Then follow the links.
Or, find some niche hobby site and follow its links.
Branch out from the world wide web… I still visit Hotline sites, the odd Gopher server, and other protocols of yesteryear.
what it once was.
Very slow connection with inability to find websites,and needing to know every single url?
Lol this is some weird out of touch take if I’ve ever seen one
Ah, yes, I remember those days with the text-only LYNX browser from the unix terminal and the joy of Netscape Navigator on machines that could handle windows. Searching was difficult until there was Alta Vista, which was AMAZING compared to the competition, but even it failed for D&D-style gamers who tried to search for "role playing games" and got back a list of a million sex sites and zero visible pen/paper/dice games. Happily, you could add boolean operator rules to get rid of some of that (NOT sex NOT babes NOT XXX) -- but you'd either be typing a lot of naughty words to skip or you'd have to remember the sites that catered to RPGs because searching could be very hit or miss.
Well, yes.
Human curated but now my connection is faster than what some of the sites I visit can serve.
I don’t know how you arrived at this based on what @TheFeatureCreature@lemmy.ca was saying.
Connection strength is a network/infrastructure problem while what was being said in the original comment is an application/usage one.
The other part of your statement can be solved using a search engine which restricts itself to just searches and not distract itself with ads and AI. But evidently such a product is hard to build in today’s world.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yea but think of how many ads you could fit in that bad boy
wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 18 hours ago
You could even host a website where it is just ads, and not only do people pay for the privilege, but other people visit it, like it’s a point of interest.
Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world 16 hours ago
I like to work 8 hours to earn a living and then spend the next 6 hours I’m awake being subjected to ~sales men trying to sell me things~ watching dude perfect