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You have reached the end of the internet (2006)
- jacewhitmer 9mo agoReminded me of this commercial https://youtu.be/_uXtWIg_A7M?si=h0FSN79T5SDoUuGm https://youtu.be/_uXtWIg_A7M?si=h0FSN79T5SDoUuGm
- debo_ 9mo agoRecall the classic bash.org quote: "I beat the internet. The last guy was hard."
- wkat4242 9mo agoMakes sense for the last guy to be a gooner, that's why the internet was born!
- benwerd 9mo agoI mean, finally.
- mapontosevenths 9mo agoIt was fun while it lasted. For me the high point was Fark or maybe Homestar and the low point was obviosuly Facebook... or maybe the end of Democracy.
- Loughla 9mo agoFark and cracked in about 2007 were peak post development, profit motivated Internet. Homestar runner and albino black sheep (shout out to flashback for many fun dmt experiences) in about 2004 was peak fun Internet.
- 0xDEAFBEAD 9mo agoInteresting how internet boosters in the late 90s/early 2000s told us the internet would revitalize democracy by making it so anyone could publish. I'm not aware of a single cynic who successfully predicted how things actually ended up turning out. Nor have I seen much of an attempt to revisit those early predictions.
- neonroku 9mo agoEarth by David Brin and Ender’s Game made some predictions in this area
- eleventen 9mo agoI vaguely remember “The Nets” in Enders game but not how they functioned. What about Card’s portrayal did you find prescient?
- eucyclos 9mo agoCard's idea that everyone could publish and excellent voices would be amplified was correct in premise, though it's conclusion was completely off. Classic XKCD parodied it brilliantly IMHO: https://xkcd.com/635/ https://xkcd.com/635/
- wkat4242 9mo agoAlso William Gibson and other cyberpunk franchises. A big recurring theme is the lost fight against corporate interests. A bit worse than the state our world is in right now but certainly where we're heading.
- eimrine 9mo agoRMS has seen our troubles with non-free software as early as in 80s. What he has not predict that the software has find even more cruel way of shipping - disservices which do not even allow the freedom 0. BTW the statement about democracy is not a lie - everyone knows some big and small revolutions happened after someone's post in social networks. Also such things as anonymous news sources, torrents and bitcoin has democraticized a whole lot of things in our lives.
- exq 9mo ago"AI will democratize education and information access as everyone will have their own personal tutor and librarian!" History repeats
- dokyun 9mo ago
- abruzzi 9mo agoThe high point was the original useless pages (especially the uselessness of pi.) Its been downhill since then.
- taylorsatula 9mo agoA good friend of mine, god honest truth, met his now-wife on Fark less than three years ago. Sure is somethin.
- verisimi 9mo agoDo you realise we have never had 'democracy' - we have 'representative democracy', a totally different thing. Thousands, perhaps millions of people, vote once every 4-5 years for one person to represent them on thousands of governmental decisions. That person is under no constraints to do what they said to gain your vote either - they can do the exact opposite with no repercussion. Voting as we have it, is a highly abstract, meta "democracy", with 'the will of the people' effecting a meaningless level of force on the tiller. As per the design.
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- saghm 9mo agoAt least in the US, each person has a lot more than one representative they vote for, with multiple levels of government with different intended scopes. As much as that doesn't completely eliminate the problems you describe, I'd argue that that focus on only the first election listed in the ballot at the expense of the others is one of the (many) causes of how we ended in the state we are today. It's a lot easier for someone to be elected to represent you while ignoring your interests if you don't even know or care about the fact that they're running. If people cared more about local elections (and even federal elections other than for president), there would be at least some increase in pressure for legislative bodies to respond to the will of the people. Without that, the issue isn't even that they're going the opposite of what the people who voted for them want, but the the number of people who voted for them (or even for the candidates they're running against) aren't anywhere close to representative proportion of the population. We don't really know if representative democracy would approximate actual democracy because the people they're representing aren't the full population, but the small segment of politically active ones.
- eucyclos 9mo agoI still don't understand what happened to stumbledupon. That was INTERNET! for me.
- saghm 9mo agoA new Strongbad email was published within the last month, to the surprise of probably everyone left who remembers Homestar Runner. The fun stuff is still out there; it's just not the only stuff there (and never was), and there's probably a lot more of that non-fun stuff too.
- flippyhead 9mo agohttps://zombo.com https://zombo.com !!
- ginko 9mo agoOh but reaching zombo.com is only the beginning. You can do anything on zombo.com!
- tomjakubowski 9mo agoI used to work on a CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) integration for an in-house multimedia platform that was kind of like a game engine with distributed real-time rendering. We used https://html5zombo.com https://html5zombo.com routinely to smoke-test: the animation and audio together made it easy to tell when machines were getting out of sync, or when we weren't pushing frames fast enough, or when the audio was broken (as pulseaudio and CEF version updates would often do). Good times.
- YokoZar 9mo agoThe Internet is a mere 23 PiB according to the graphic. These days you can fit that on just a few racks.
- theblazehen 9mo agoCan even get it in a single rack if you use SSDs
- 1970-01-01 9mo agoA few ounces is all we need! https://www.wired.com/story/weight-of-the-internet/ https://www.wired.com/story/weight-of-the-internet/
- opengrass 9mo agoThis is up since at least February 2006.
- netsharc 9mo agoIn 6 weeks that'll be 20 years ago.. how did 20 years disappear like that?
- jrjrjfhgggg 9mo agoIt became part of the hologram that is the universe and time....
- Sophira 9mo agoI'm pretty sure the page itself has existed before then, just at a different location. For example, here's a page from 2000 that's in the Internet Archive that looks kind of similar: https://web.archive.org/web/20000115232652/http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20000115232652/http://www.shibum...
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- bensons1 9mo agoI remember back in the days the HTTP proxy of Sun Microsystems used to have a similar page when something went wrong. Always tried to find it again, but failed.
- ahazred8ta 9mo agohttps://thispageintentionallyleftblank.org/ https://thispageintentionallyleftblank.org/
- medwards666 9mo agoGeez ... that's a heckuvalotta pron consumption ...
- wizardforhire 9mo agoI was hoping for more… maybe some ending cuts scenes, some recaps of adventures, maybe some cameos from developers… this just seems lazy and like my time/life was a wasted effort…
- YokoZar 9mo agoThe developers never thought you'd make it this far.
- boncester 9mo agoomg I haven't seen this in years! :D
- nrhrjrjrjtntbt 9mo agoyou came back? keep planting trees!
- ChrisMarshallNY 9mo agoReminds me of this classic bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg
- nrhrjrjrjtntbt 9mo agoWhat year do we predict internet.zip would be downloadable in say one day.
- amarant 9mo agoOctober 30th, 1969. After that it started to grow uncontrollably and quickly became unwieldy
- nrhrjrjrjtntbt 9mo agoHa ha. I meant the particular snapshotted internet.zip with alleged file size on that site.
- Wowfunhappy 9mo agoIt occurs to me that downloading e.g. llama.cpp kind of is like downloading the whole internet? Or a very lossy-compressed version of it.
- wkat4242 9mo agoYes I've thought the same. It's pretty cool. Not terribly functional but yeah
- tehjoker 9mo agoWith a 100 Gbps connection, it would take 21.3 days, so it needs to get about 21x better than that.
- qingcharles 9mo agoMe finishing browsing the final page of the WWW in 1993. "Well, that was fun. Back to IRC."
- nativeit 9mo agoI remember when “browsing the WWW” literally involved scrolling through a categorized list of pages via a portal in Netscape. At the time, the only place I knew to get online was a single PC in the library at UNC Charlotte, where my mother worked. There was a sign next to it explaining what the World Wide Web was. I taught myself to play the guitar using ASCII tabs on the OnLine Guitar Archive.
- Anamon 9mo agoI remember buying print magazines that published the hottest new URLs, with screenshots!
- krackers 9mo agoI remember this used to be www.wwwdotcom.com but it seems the internet lasted longer than that page did.
- NateEag 9mo agoMy minimalist version has a better domain name: http://endinter.net/ http://endinter.net/
- tsumnia 9mo agoNow that we've reached the end of the Internet, enjoy instructions on how to get OFF the Internet. https://doctorsensei.com/how-to-get-off-the-internet.html https://doctorsensei.com/how-to-get-off-the-internet.html
- ofalkaed 9mo agoI remember when this was new and it was still possible to conceive of the internet as finite. Simpler times. Is it possible to view the internet as finite these days? Is it actually possible to turn out the lights (touch grass) these days?
- Tanoc 9mo agoThe thing that finally let it sink in that things were growing at an inconceivable rate was when I realized my chances of mistyping a URL and being lead to a blank page was in the thousandths of a percent. Between giant companies buying up typos to prevent phishing attacks and holding companies domain squatting almost every single combination of words and phrases now has a viable URL. Even my former go to example for a useless URL that went unused for the seventeen years I knew it, "skeeble", actually goes to a Chinese domain squat now.
- eucyclos 9mo agoDead Internet Theory seems the new iteration... not finite in extent but in novelty maybe, a small mirror maze with infinite reflections on a very small set of themes.
- seydor 9mo agomore or less correct. after that, it's all rehashes of the same material as memes and social nonsense. It's all services, no content
- dlm24 9mo agoWhy was it the end of the internet?
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- zelias 9mo agoHmmm this isn’t https://endoftheinter.net https://endoftheinter.net
- bunnybomb2 9mo agoTheres no way this is seriously the end of the internet? Is this confirmed?
- mlpro 9mo agoI don't understand.