The Boring Internet

CM30

I mean he's right, the old internet and the technology that underlies it still exists, and there's nothing stopping you from building and using sites that work independently of the big social media platforms/centralised services. That said, I do wish this essay was a bit better contrast wise. Had to highlight some of the tables to read them at all, which isn't exactly ideal.

pamcake

Alternative readable rendering: https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet/ascii

w4yai

I find this website really hard to read, even in ASCII.

philipwhiuk

GPJV2kLVWR8R9AIzFcHTE Interesting

ianhxu

Not sure. Without commercialization and ads, there might not be the free high-quality web apps from Google. Things have two sides. But the complexity of the internet should have far surpassed the level that even large corps could influence, and therefore, the key might be culture instead of tech.

syhol

Great topic and message. But the AI-generated writing really gets under my skin. It's not painful. Not unclear. Just really annoying.

numericOverflow

Fade scroll, hard pass.

Martin_Silenus

The Internet I grew up on was not the web. It was mail, newsgroups, IRC… maybe the article talks about that, but I don’t care as this is nothing the web can kill in any way.

hntiz

I thought it was a cool essay because I've been using Gemini (the one mentioned in the article, not Google) in my terminal browser lately. And it has been a lot of fun! But yes the whole "re-explain by negation" writing style does come across as AI-generated.

cryo32

I think the best bit about this is the reminder that SomaFM still exists.

pona-a

This essay returns 50% on Pangram, which matches my impression of it. The human-written bits do have real insight, but it's being buried in vacuous slop that makes it. I understand from personal experience how addictive writing with AI can be. Universally when I looked back at the result a week after composing it, I saw it was what it was - slop - and did the responsible thing - throw that out and use my own brain to express those thoughts, or decide that thought needed more time in the oven before touching the page. If the original author is reading this, I beg you to consider this instead of becoming another contributor to the internet's cacophony of slop.

TYPE_FASTER

Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol) Useful in 1993 before the Unix machines in the computer labs were running Mosaic.

cosmicgadget

That was a lot of short, punchy sentences. A lot. Tough to read. Reads like a political speech. Or advertisement. Not great.