I miss the old internet. The beautiful people are in charge

Re:I miss the old internet. The beautiful people are in charge by dangarbri3 on Monday October 17, 2022 @08:52PM (#33241660)

The old internet is actually still around. There's just so much noise and Google isn't going to direct you to it.

Neocities is a platform that promotes those quirky personal homepages.

There are chat room/irc platforms like matrix and libera chat that still go on.

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Re:I miss the old internet. The beautiful people are in charge by anthk on Monday October 17, 2022 @09:25PM (#33241893)

A lot of Neocities pages are full of JS...

It's better to seek out pages at http://wiby.me

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Re:I miss the old internet. The beautiful people are in charge by graypegg on Monday October 17, 2022 @09:57PM (#33242094)

I find myself missing the creativity and passion of the old internet, rather than the specifics of how they were built. Is it really so bad that these sites have some scripting involved?

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Re:I miss the old internet. The beautiful people are in charge by heynowheynow on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @12:47AM (#33243076)

I miss Netscape on Windows 3.1 on a 4:3 CRT monitor in 256 colors with red on yellow Comic Sans bold italic H1 blink tag marquee with an unnecessary trail of ellipses scrolling left to right with 3 iframes with Java and Flash applets with a redirect to goatse.

But seriously, I miss Pythonline, gopher, finger, IRC, and sunsite.

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Re:I miss the old internet. The beautiful people are in charge by anthk on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @02:35PM (#33251884)

IRC is still up, from Libera.chat (ex-Freenode) to efnet and so on. Gopher has lots of usage at gopher://sdf.org, gopher://magical.fish and gopher://floodgap.org.

On Sunsite, Ibiblio it's still up. And Slashdot.

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Re:I miss the old internet. The beautiful people are in charge by heynowheynow on Saturday October 29, 2022 @03:00PM (#33386973)

Without VRML97, we wouldn't have PNG. Ah the bad old days. Netsplit!

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Re:I miss the old internet. The beautiful people are in charge by MisterSandman on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:30AM (#33248848)

Why is JS mutually exclusive to the old web?

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Re:I miss the old internet. The beautiful people are in charge by ncr100 on Monday October 17, 2022 @10:33PM (#33242322)

AI recommendations are a blessing and a curse on YouTube.

More satisfaction from word of mouth (hand curated search index, effectively) hits than AI lately for me.

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Re:I miss the old internet. The beautiful people are in charge by uni_rule on Tuesday October 18, 2022 @11:24AM (#33248743)

For me they're annoyingly self referencing. I rarely ever get recommendations outside my recent watch history so it feels like there's nothing to discover on-site outside of stretching the "my mix" playlist until it starts improvising.

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