Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
by hyperpallium on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @08:24PM
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It's great for tech research, but if you search for anything else, it's all spam/commercial sites.
Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
by marci on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @10:27PM
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In what domain do you find spam to be overwhelmingly present?
Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
by sanbor on Thursday January 31, 2019 @04:29AM
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I can be really hard to find "hot singles in your area" nowadays.
Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
by mod on Thursday January 31, 2019 @03:32PM
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Fitness, health, DIY, investing to name a few I see regularly.
Re:Why isn't the internet more fun and weird?
by IgorPartola on Thursday January 31, 2019 @09:40AM
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That’s fair. My response was partially to the general theme of the thread, and your comment described quite well the 1995 state of things.
My comment about the non-nerds being the apparent problem is not that I actually think that. It’s that this sentiment often comes up. But reality is that we have way more nerds online now than before.
And overall the whole article is basically an advert for a new blogging system. Which may or may not be fun to use, but pining for the days when XSS was a desired feature.
Wikipedia alone would make that choice easy.
Throw in that I can get an answer to some obscure error code in some library to talk to an old piece of hardware in <30s and I'm completely sold.
I was just describing my experience between then and now.
> The thing is that the apparent problem is that non-nerds are now allowed online.
Now you are just projecting, I never said modern internet was worse and I definitely didn't say anything about non-nerds been a problem, the internet is a larger part of my mums life (nearly house bound due to arthritis) than it is mine and that's a good thing.