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Re:The web is 30 years old today by heresie-dabord on Sunday December 20, 2020 @12:00PM (#25487628)
The importance of the WWW for me has been research papers and books, dev tools, and jazz & classical music.

Although I use it every day, the WWW has become something that I actively mistrust. There are too many predators, both commercial and espionage.

I scrape WWW pages from the terminal and download archives for offline reference. Just to use what TBL conceived, it has been necessary to develop multi-layered defence: router, firewall, dns doh and filters, VPN, firejail, browser extensions.

I think it's safe to say that this is not what most users have in mind when they buy a shiny new computer and "connect to the Internet".

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Re:The web is 30 years old today by OpticalWindows on Sunday December 20, 2020 @12:37PM (#25487962)
There may be a few sites I don't know about but I wish there was a reputable resource that saved archived information. I think libraries should archive everything on the internet if they haven't already. It would be really neat to give students the ability to surf the web of 2001's ecetera.

By archiving the internet I mean everything. Search engine performance on each date, ads, social traffic.

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Re:The web is 30 years old today by roastytoasty on Sunday December 20, 2020 @12:07PM (#25487690)
Agreed.

I am also saddened that there is some things that I was too lazy to download for offline use and is now no longer available online.

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