The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell

Re:The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell by wkjagt on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @07:05AM (#39356877)

I love the comparison with gentrification. It’s not the same though. You can still see the old web untouched, it’s just almost impossible to find. But if you do find it, you don’t see the gentrification.

Maybe it’s more like Rome being surrounded by hundreds of miles of malls, and parking lots, and highways, and those highways (and Google Maps) only leading you to those parking lots and malls. You’d have to stumble upon a backroad that’s not on the map to find the old Rome.

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Re:The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell by darkwater on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @07:13AM (#39356917)

> it’s just almost impossible to find.

Just like it was back then... There was a very steep path for the entrance to he^W the Internet, and then it was easy to find those places. Now you can access the Internet easily but it's harder to find those places.

EDIT: typo

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Re:The Catalogue of UK Entrances to Hell by bbarnett on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @10:01AM (#39358205)

Part of it is, SSL certs. Google downranks, heavily, websites without SSL.

Some of these sites will never see SSL, and so they are indeed as roads not on a map.

(It isn't relevant how easy or hard ssl and obtaining certs are. The reality is, these older, static html sires sometimes don't have ssl, and will never have ssl.)

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