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Title says "internet" when it should say "world wide web."
by TwoBit 6y ago
Title says "internet" when it should say "world wide web."
- doersino 6y agoSynonymous for the intended audience, and close enough for anyone else.
- Shared404 6y agoTrue, but that makes it a good place to raise technical literacy a little bit.
- com2kid 6y agoI also miss the old FTPs, and the days when you could list all website directory contents. I miss the early days when BBSes tried to migrate to telnet online. I miss P2P sharing apps that had chat rooms and communities build around them (anyone reading this remember VNN2000?). alt.tasteless, principa discordia, and I remember reading about was the 3rd (or 4th) burning man long before it was "a thing". Back when "The New Hacker's Dictionary" used to provide a common lexicon and even people who didn't read 1960s Sci-Fi knew what "grok" meant.
- DEADBEEFC0FFEE 6y agoGood times. Exciting, explorative and adventure. Having multiple favorites search engines.. wild. It's all very boring and feels filtered.
- com2kid 6y agoI remember literally running out of websites to visit in 1996 or so. If you read fast enough that was a legit thing that could happen. I also remember how terrible forums were until a few generations of AJAX happened. Massive sites could afford beefy servers to make forums not suck, but everywhere else things were pretty bad. Search engines were beyond bad, it was pretty much "I know this exact term exists on this site, so I'll put it in quotes and hit search."
- johnchristopher 6y ago> I miss P2P sharing apps that had chat rooms and communities build around them (anyone reading this remember VNN2000?). Nah. But I really did dig WASTE !
- com2kid 6y agoI never used WASTE, I was a fan of Direct Connect though. It is weird how technological limitations forced tiny servers and users to talk in order to swap files. IRC of course being the precursor to all this. Bit torrent has everything, but I don't get to stumble on someones shared files know they like somethings I like, and then explore organically. What I miss most from the earlier web is mp3.com. To this day I am angry at the founder for screwing over countless independent artists so he could try and prove a point against the RIAA. The market still hasn't consolidated on a similar product that does everything MP3.com used to do: 1. Bands Organized by Genre 2. Streaming of the band's songs 3. Ability to order a band's music 4. Social discovery of new music If I cobble together Sound Cloud and Bandcamp I'm still stuck with a discovery problem that Spotify only kinda helps. Mp3.com was a directory like the old Yahoo, so browsing around was a great way to discover new music and then BUY it. (I still haven't been able to find a replacement for an album I ordered off mp3.com, the band up and vanished as most bands do and I lost the CD.)
- johnchristopher 6y ago> (I still haven't been able to find a replacement for an album I ordered off mp3.com, the band up and vanished as most bands do and I lost the CD.) I feel you. There a tons of bands (and other works such as books) that aren't and likely won't ever be accessible. This grinds my gears when I read comments about how the Internet/Piracy has everything. It has everything that is mainstream enough and even then the ephemeral nature of some technology used to share it (torrent, emule, etc.) don't necessarily mean it's available years later. In the sense that torrent networks aren't for storage but for sharing. It's an error to believe piracy makes everything available.
- pwinnski 6y agoAre there a lot of gopher and ftp sites around that I'm missing? Email is still going somewhat strong, I guess.