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How do you guys remember the early days of the internet? What do you miss about it? (tim.kicker.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Wanted to ask you about this article, how do you remember the early days of the internet (I was sadly too young at that time). Do you wish it back? And do you think it can ever be like that again? I would be very interested

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@4am @swan_pr And it's much harder to sell ads on text instructions 😞

The ad-driven nature of the internet means we get that instead of what we want.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

@codefolio @4am @swan_pr which is fine, if people want to get paid for providing tutorials or instructions, then that's good for them, if advertising is the mechanism to allow that, then so be it.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

@keith @codefolio @4am @swan_pr people should get paid for their efforts, but advertising and algorithms negatively impact the quality of what they produce.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@keith @4am @swan_pr

It's still hard that it cuts off the early internet. Ads driven by search engines means SEO, which mean making it *very* hard to find the kind of instructions you can't sell ads on.

It's understandable that people write what they can get paid for. It's hard that the early Internet methods of doing this are now effectively dead, with no replacement.