Some kind humans keep this site going even though the author passed away. Its a trove of info.
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its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Its sad. We’ve lost so much over the last decade. Many of the wonderful and hobbyist passion projects from the early internet are gone too. Think of niche sites by historians, archeologists, train enthusiasts, etc that were a wealth of information. Much of that is gone
BCsven@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org 2 days ago
Incredible! I love this so much, and Boston (love that dirty water).
There was the below; the original now only accessible via the Internet archive. Please do not ask my how often I think of the Roman Empire. Sites like your link and mine are what I miss. Neocities has some of that but its not the same.
[web.archive.org/web/…/www.roman-empire.net/](Roman Empire.net)
reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
The only problem back then was discovery. Finding the site that could give you what you were looking for wasn’t always easy, then Google came around and not only was it lightning fast, but it actually found things so much easier than Ask Jeeves, msn, AOL or Yahoo.
Then it slowly morphed into the mess we get now from there. AI seems to be making it much worse, not better.
I searched verbatim for something niche and uniquely named the other day. The smaller sites I use to avoid the big tech couldn’t find it, and Google was 3 pages of ads, AI crap and competitors. The site was on page 4.
Ugh.
its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org 2 days ago
That’s a really great perspective. Google is unusable now, I concur. I tried looking up a guide for Nova Roma (sorta like a classic Sierra Caesar game) water management, and my Buddha it was pages of AI guides, ads, and slop from the same three sources. I give up.
breakcore@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
Try adding “before:2023” to your google searches. Should prevent AI slop in the results.
its_me_xiphos@beehaw.org 1 day ago
I do for everything. Alas…new video games :-(. Going to need to go back to ye olde strategy guides. Which, reminds me. I used to own the TIE Fighter series for PC back in the…gosh…mid 90s? The strategy guide had an entire storyline woven into it from the “main characters” perspective. Super cool.