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Going back to what it was 20 years ago? I'm sold!

by qha 8y ago

bryanrasmussen 8y ago
If the web went back to what it was 20 years ago that would be economically catastrophic, I mean if it happened like nearly instantly, if it happened over a space of 10-15 years OK.
- hedora 8y ago
  In the context of the quote, let’s ignore non-ad based stuff, like amazon’s shipping network, and online banking. In what way would resetting the ad based parts 20 years be catastrophic? Were RSS and semi-curated news portals like yahoo and google news that much worse for publishers? (I thought they were actually better, economically, than FB...)
  - bryanrasmussen 8y ago
    the context of the quote was that the web went back to what it was 20 years ago, ignoring the non-ad based stuff is cherry picking after the fact.
manigandham 8y ago
There was basically nothing on the internet 20 years ago.
- humanrebar 8y ago
  MapQuest and Amazon both started around then. People stood up personal sites at places like GeoCities. There were chat services like ICQ.
  - joering2 8y ago
    Oh boy memories.. i still remember my six digit ICQ number. It had to be circa 2000?
- qha 8y ago
  I vividly remember lots of things... what I wouldn't give for seeing IRC rise up again
  - tomrod 8y ago
    It's still here!!! I love IRC -- especially being able to connect with open source project maintainers. Mad respect for all of them.
    - deleted 8y ago
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    - qha 8y ago
      I mean, the old IRC, not freenode which is full of power-tripping autists.
- AznHisoka 8y ago
  There were just a bunch of DragonBall webmasters trying to rank #1 for DBZ in Altavista and Yahoo, but couldnt take that spot from VegettoEX.
- checkyoursudo 8y ago
  There was battle.net already. I needed very little else from the internet back then.
dependsontheq 8y ago
There is no going back, we are now talking about a 90% mobile network, that is used by some people every two minutes. This is not even comparable to the network we had. If we switch to a non digital ad world, it will be a net with different classes of citizens. I‘ll gladly pay for my 30 subscriptions but a whole global class of people will not be able to.
- trothamel 8y ago
  We'd have websites sponsored and run by people willing to pay to put them online to push their agenda. Versus now, when we have websites sponsored by advertising and run by people trying to push their agenda.
joejerryronnie 8y ago
I've been awaiting the return of marching ants and "under construction" gifs for years.

Going back to what it was 20 years ago? I'm sold!

by qha 8y ago

Going back to what it was 20 years ago? I'm sold!

If the web went back to what it was 20 years ago that would be economically catastrophic, I mean if it happened like nearly instantly, if it happened over a space of 10-15 years OK.

hedora 8y ago
In the context of the quote, let’s ignore non-ad based stuff, like amazon’s shipping network, and online banking. In what way would resetting the ad based parts 20 years be catastrophic? Were RSS and semi-curated news portals like yahoo and google news that much worse for publishers? (I thought they were actually better, economically, than FB...)
- bryanrasmussen 8y ago
  the context of the quote was that the web went back to what it was 20 years ago, ignoring the non-ad based stuff is cherry picking after the fact.

manigandham 8y ago

There was basically nothing on the internet 20 years ago.

humanrebar 8y ago
MapQuest and Amazon both started around then. People stood up personal sites at places like GeoCities. There were chat services like ICQ.
- joering2 8y ago
  Oh boy memories.. i still remember my six digit ICQ number. It had to be circa 2000?
qha 8y ago
I vividly remember lots of things... what I wouldn't give for seeing IRC rise up again
- tomrod 8y ago
  It's still here!!! I love IRC -- especially being able to connect with open source project maintainers. Mad respect for all of them.
  - deleted 8y ago
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  - qha 8y ago
    I mean, the old IRC, not freenode which is full of power-tripping autists.
AznHisoka 8y ago
There were just a bunch of DragonBall webmasters trying to rank #1 for DBZ in Altavista and Yahoo, but couldnt take that spot from VegettoEX.
checkyoursudo 8y ago
There was battle.net already. I needed very little else from the internet back then.

dependsontheq 8y ago

There is no going back, we are now talking about a 90% mobile network, that is used by some people every two minutes. This is not even comparable to the network we had. If we switch to a non digital ad world, it will be a net with different classes of citizens. I‘ll gladly pay for my 30 subscriptions but a whole global class of people will not be able to.

trothamel 8y ago
We'd have websites sponsored and run by people willing to pay to put them online to push their agenda. Versus now, when we have websites sponsored by advertising and run by people trying to push their agenda.

joejerryronnie 8y ago

I've been awaiting the return of marching ants and "under construction" gifs for years.