Created this after reading conversation in comments below some tech article somewhere. Someone mentioned "surfing the #internet sewer" and I really liked that phrase.
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Ich werde heute Abend wieder dort sein und neben dem spannenden Vortrag vom Timo Grossenbacher auch nette Menschen treffen. Wer nicht vor Ort sein kann, kann den Vortrag auch über einen freien Video-Stream auf @c3voc über das Internet verfolgen.
"The significance of this development is profound: If AI provides the answers to all the searches that you’re looking for, there is no need to click on the source articles that provide the answers. If you don’t click on the source articles, the publishers do not receive any ad revenue, and if the publishers do not receive ad revenue, they cannot pay their writers to provide the answers for Google’s AI to steal."
if there's one thing I miss of the early net it's the way people just put their random shit and fun comments ideas in a textfile and saved it for public consumption somewhere.
there's still a few archives around (e.g. textfiles.com), but new stuff isn't really added anymore
This article nicely sums up my suspicion about the state of 'Xwitter'…
"Twitter is now a siloed attention roulette machine just like TikTok. That was the plan when Elon took over and they succeeded. There's no going back."
These guys actually tracked down a copy of Archie (including the source code) and now have a public Archie server back online!
Archie was the Internet's first search engine (before the web existed). I remember using it in the early 90s.
It's pretty funny how usable 90s tech is: imagine, a search engine that just gives you direct links to file downloads without any other nonsense involved!
Ja… äähhh,… ja und dann vielleicht gleich auf @briar und/oder @cwtch zum chaten wechseln? Wenn dies überhaupt noch jemensch aktiv nutzt. Nun ja, @signalapp ist leider nicht dezentral.
»Messenger der 2000er – ICQ macht nach mehr als 27 Jahren dicht:
Er ist einer der ältesten Chatdienste ‒ und hat die Jugend der frühen 2000er geeint: Nun ist für den Messenger ICQ bald Schluss.«
Can someone with mad computer skillz tell me if this is legit, or if doing so will open a wormhole to a shady hacker underworld that immediately steals my identity?
(also, if any members of the shady hacker underworld are reading this and tempted to respond, I’ll only believe you if you say “scout’s honor”. Can’t fool me!)