Is the internet of today better than it used to be?
Has anything actually good come out of the corporate web revolution?
I don't think so.
>>55124074
>global audience
the US is not the globe
>>55124455
Give it a century or two, it will be.
>>55124179
not a single damn thing.
>>55124074
Hell no.
By 2007 the internet were at its best
>>55124074
Significantly worse. I mean, just look how 4chan has fallen. Now consider the rest of the internet fell 4x deeper.
>>55124549
it was way past its peak in 2007 desu. iphone came out that year, facebook and youtube were already a thing, etc.
>>55124179
Maybe Amazon Prime, but Amazon has a lot of Walmart grade chink shit now.
And you're SoL if you want to use a search engine that isn't google or bing.
>>55125251
>paying a membership fee for a retailer
2008 Internet was the best and will always be the best
>>55125461
Cause having to remeber about 8 different video websites was a good thing.
Thou they did have better content due to everything being handpicked.
The only better things have been the rise of on-demand commercial video and music streaming services, and constantly improving mapping services.
Everything else on the Internet is either the same or worse (particularly online culture) than before.
Also, where does Wikipedia rank in comparison to the corporate giants?
Every summer you stupid, underage faggots come in here and cry about some golden age of the internet and the Eternal September you weren't alive for. Grow up and think for yourselves, stop spouting memes.
Yahoo is selling off all it's stuff at a yard sale
>>55125871
>stop spouting memes
so you don't like the internet of today?
2002-2008 were the best years for me.
After that everything just started to go to hell with social media this and mobile apps that.
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>>55125871
>Offspring Chat
>chatpit
>Coke Music
>Vanilla WoW
>Zune
>Nerdcore Rap
The internet was better.
I could pick up emo and punk bitches all day.
dae remember the good days online when there were no smartphones?
>tfw you could get back home and still have stable latency instead of insane lagspikes because your family learned to watch facebook videos
>tfw when not everything was going around google and botnets
>>55124074
The internet was the closest thing to a free unrestricted market in US history and look what happened. It's the most competitive market with the lowest point of entry and we still got a borderline oligopoly.
Libertards are idiots.
Yeah, it's great if you're a hip woman into social media or a leftist cuck who likes that corp/gov dick. #yesallwomen
>>55128379
>>>/tumblr/
![internet_explorer_logo_6[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/lCpcYpD.png "internet_explorer_logo_6[1].png")
remember ie6 ? right. Internet today is much better than it used to be.
>>55128818
IE6 was good for its time.
The only problem was with Microsoft who thought their monopoly is untouchable so they can do all the want whatever they want.
>>55128518
Yeah bro ARPANET and those university networks were totes the best free market in town
>>55124074
Are questions getting smarter?
The answer to this question is the answer to yours.
>>55128995
Retard.
>>55129065
wow haha you sure got him holy fucking shit he'll probably never come on 4chan again I mean Jesus Christ he was btfo I mean that was just insane
>you will never again be 13 and pick up girls your own age on habbo hotel, get them to add you on MSN and camming with them whilst you both got naked at 1am during the summer holiday from school
The internet is literally shit now. Mainly becasue that shit above required work. Now tweenagers are sharing nudes on Snapchat like they're going out of fashion.
Fuck. And those Hungarian "funny image" sites with huge amounts of questionable content.
>>55125270
Kek
>>55129258
Reported for distribution of child pornography
>>55125270
>what is costco and sams club
You're paying for standardized and improved shipping anyway, not for the ability to buy something.
Internet content went to shit over the past 6 years, mostly because large corporations learned just how powerful internet marketing could be. Bot followers, "viral" campaigns, etc. Because these corporations wanted a larger audience for their ads, they began to try and pressure hosts to sanitize their sites. It worked, and we had the whole "cyberbullying" news cycle, which has recently culminated in FB literally policing opinions for the EU commission.
Chat services going down isn't surprising, their only value comes from userbase scale. I'm amazed that forums aren't less shit though, the amount of clutter you have to wade through is stupid. I mean, come on, >it's 2016
Video hosting was always going to go to youtube, which had the easiest site to use, but Google turned it into a giant pile of shit peddling ads.
Wikipedia has been politicized by "activists" whoring out postmodernism, so there goes the one true hope for the the internet anyway, the whole free dissemination of ideas/information.
>>55124179
>>55129359
>niggernet exploder
Nice try shill
>>55126438
so the problem is not the internet, the problem right now is that you are old.
>>55129424
That's the joke you autist
>>55129424
>not noticing the tabs
it's b8 fampai
>>55129450
>>55129453
THAT'S THE JOKE YOU UNMETAFAGGOTS HOLY SHIT
>>55129359
Thanks for your 'tip'
>>55129377
The irony is that shit shithole has "fallen" much less than the rest of the internet.
4chan generally does feel cleaner though. I don't like it, but I'll take it over anything else at this point.
Fuck. I really miss the first iteration of r9k.
>>55124074
>I found 4 chan at the age of 14, in 2004 via YTMND
I've been wanting to say that for years but never could.
Hold me.
>>55129538
Fuck off
>>55129553
Fuck you bitch
>>55124486
Haha, good one.
The US is collapsing more with every passing day.
>>55124074
Better for what?
I mean, there's more stuff on it. You can buy things via mail order on it now. You can watch videos over it. Its reach and breadth is amazing now. Collectively I think it is probably the greatest single achievement of humankind, even if most of use use said achievement to shitpost, watch cat videos, or fap.
As a result of it becoming mainstream, it certainly lost the cozy feeling it used to have, and for many the ability to have semi-rational conversations - but that's simply because instead of a few subcultures nestled within, it's become enormous. I remember the days before spam and ads, and it'll never quite be the same since.
It's still worth it. Also, I don't have to dial through a BBS door to browse Gopherspace at 14400bps now.
>>55129553
>>55129560
samefag
>>55129512
>>55129538
>>55129553
>>55129560
C-c-c-c-ombobreaker.
>>55124074
I remember in Compuserve and AOL early days when morons publish that mainstream ruined online culture.
>>55129412
>implying plebbit is web 3.0
>>55129465
I'm glad you understand now :^)
>>55129683
>>>/reddit/
>>55129605
Nigger
>>55129673
What exactly is Reddit?
It's like a forum aggregator for shitposting.
What attracts people? Reddit gold? The fuck?
I suppose it doesn't matter, the more people, the better porn.
>>55124074
I remember in 2005, when internet was still much of a alternative culture thing, that it was all about the cool people doing cool stuff sharing it on their absolutely dunk sites. Somewhere between 2010 and 2012 apes that couldn't use a keyboard got their devices, so those could use their fingers. By now just the vague wind of the old is left, and net is full of white trash and different niggurs.
>>55125136
2007 was the last good year in America
everything started to suck after 2007
>>55124074
desu I like it this way. I like having small, unnoticed pockets of the internet all to ourselves. It's fun.
>>55128521
Be still my cringing heart. Sadly, unless something gets done, the future will be worse.
>>55129802
Let me check
>Forged Alliance released November 2007
Yup, after 2007 something died
>>55129803
I'd much rather have a smaller internet than smaller pockets on a larger internet. You know that eventually, the small pockets will cede to the larger hosters, and that one community you found that fits so well will die.
>>55125871
but anon don't you remember when usenet was the peak of enlightened discourse?
>>55128818
you seem to forget about how XMLHttpRequest transformed the essential nature of a "web site"
>>55129476
>>55129476
most of 4chan is unusable
>mu
>"check out trench-coat-core music", "you listen to wave-core-fusion-pop? get on my level"
>pol
>nsa spamming jew memes
>/g/
>same ten threads on front page for three years running
>/v/
>basically one large advertisement
the only usable board is /lit/ and its fucking dead
there's no sense of community anymore on 4chan. i come here out of habit and for the rare insightful post.
>>55129879
Usenet is incredibly useful, I wish I used it for more than just a few unix announce groups
>>55129802
Exactly.
>>55129955
>text-only usenet
nice dumb dub dubs
>>55130045
Uuencode an image with your post, nigga.
>>55130045
Binary newsgroups should be eliminated and all their users executed.
>>55129892
>Not /fit/
>/po/
>/sp/
Served stop right for going to boards full of retards, and 14 year old retards.
>ads everywhere
>100 scripts to load a news article
No.
>>55124074
I don't really notice a difference.
>>55130727
>implying ads are new
>>55130810
>implying I implied that
>>55130817
what did you imply?
ads have always been everywhere.
>>55129745
epitome of web 1.5
>>55130842
No they haven't, they used to be just here and there, on some pages. Now they're practically all over every page. Don't even fucking try to pretend it's not 1000x worse now than it was 15 years ago.
>>55130878
depends where you go. anyway, if you want free stuff you have to sit through ads. that's how it works.
>>55130898
No it's not. There once was a time when people didn't run webistes for profit.
>>55124074
Wow dude im sorry i don't want to read some manual.txt on instanet.com to visit the famous Yahoo server yahoo.com
>>55124074
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu_gE8gQLIc
>>55129722
Its not funny or interesting anymore. Instead its just a sad reminder about your failed, pathetic life, that you continue to piss away, drooling on the internet in a mindless self perpetuating cycle of OCD that is reinforced by repetitious >>>/reddit/ posts. You feel the need to share that cycle with others, which is tantamount to you sitting in the corner, rocking back and forth, singing "Brown bear, brown bear" until someone forcibly medicates you and smacks your bottom.
Please, log off, and get help. This is not a healthy reaction to life. It indicates a serious problem. I'm not sure what sort of abuse you suffered, or what trauma you lived through, that drove you to this point, but it doesn't matter. You can get help, there are places and specialists that have devoted their lives to aiding people just like you.
you can make a break from your sad, failed life, and live something approaching like a normal life. You may never be totally human, but you can at least experience society in a context outside of a computer monitor.
- your /g/ friend.
>>55131434
>he thinks anything on /g/ is your friend
jesus, go outside.
>>55131445
>he is too autistic to realize this is a copypasta
jesus dude, if you can't post without sperging out then don't
>>55124549
>>55125136
>>55129802
>>55129859
> The internet was good was good when I was in my early teens
The Internet died when Geocities lost its relevance. Then it was all corporate shit and hardly had any OC that wasn't payed by someone else
>>55130898
this is how it works now
>>55126438
>MC Frontalot
>>55124074
The iPhone killed the Internet. People can't be bothered to open a Web page anymore, they want a dedicated app. And with a shitty 16gb of storage, the average pleb isn't going to keep a lot of them.
>>55124074
What the fuck
How is microsoft so close to google?
Who the fuck visits Microsoft.com daily?
Are there this many poo in loos in America?
>>55131915
Their online Outlook suite has a lot of pull in education, a lot of college students have to use outlook
>>55131617
>needing ublock
for what exactly? only time I absolutely need it are shady jav sites. actual legitimate sites don't have popups.
>>55131915
All that 'telemetry' probably.
>>55131949
>I've never been on the internet for the past 20 years
>>55131585
>someone is nostalgic for shitty geocities pages
wow.
>>55131940
Wasn't outlook just MSN?
If so, then it shouldn't be included with Microsoft's number because MSN is in "other notable mentions"
same goes for YouTube and Google
>>55131970
show me one. show me a mainstream site that inundates you with popups that crash your browser.
>>55131991
facebook.com
On the whole, yes.
The internet of years ago ...I've been on it for, holy shit, 25 years... was rudimentary, looked like crap (compared to now,) and was largely one-way communication. It's like waxing nostalgic about the "golden age" of television. It was shit. Yes, we got some classic programming out of it, but the technology was shitty, access limited somewhat by economics, and programming limited in options and actual air time. Anyone old enough to remember all the TV stations playing the national anthem and going off air around 1AM?
Today you're carrying in your pocket a screen almost as big as those early TV sets, and the ability to call up virtually any form of programming on demand, anywhere.
>>55131991
Literally any newspaper site. Forbes and Daily Mail both recently had incidents where ads infected visitors with malware.
>>55132022
really? wouldn't know. welp, guess don't use it.
>>55125270
you do know you can get prime for free
>>55132022
If you're getting popups on Facebook, then something is seriously wrong with your computer.
>>55132047
And that would be facebook, yes.
>>55124074
worse, but the bigger the bubbles for other websites becomes, and the smaller 4chan is in comparison, the better our post quality
>>55129465
>thats the METAJOKE you META METAFAGS
pls stop with the reddit
>>55132031
well, the worthwhile ones don't. now that I think about it wired has some annoying shit like that too.
>>55132072
fug :--DDDDD
>>55132031
>Forbes
Clickbait shithole, I'd say the same exact thing for their actual magazine if it were anything like their website.
>Daily Mail
Literally nothing of value.
Just listen to the radio if you want to stay up to date with the news.
>>55125251
>capitalist garbage
NEXT
Web technology is better but the quality of content is garbage.
>>55130716
/fit/ is fucking garbage now and has been for at least 3 years.
>>55129745
Reddit was supposed to be a place where people would share news and shit but then was sold off to some magazine company or some shit and now it's cancer. At least that's what I gathered from the shitty documentary that documented that faggot Aaron's gay life.
>Is the internet of today better than it used to be?
Yes.
Websites with frames and burning skull gifs are dead, but the niche websites are still here, and they're better than ever.
The explosion of the normienet has changed the top websites by the proportions of traffic, but the raw numbers are still up outside of it. They also make things like quality web services easier and cheaper for all of us. They also make legislative reform and regulation, and infrastructure upgrades easier to move forward.
A rising tide lifts all boats, yo.
>>55133361
/fit/ was dead to me the day Scoob was made to feel afraid for his family.
>>55129453
>fampai
The ebb of Usenet and Gopher is sad.
dynamic HTML eventually killed the web
>>55132028
So because the technology wasn't as advanced it was worse? People remember the golden age of TV because the content was genuinely better, people used to take pride in their work and work hard crafting shows instead of airing easy to make content for a quick buck. We are in the age of quantity over quality. Sure there are good shows on tv but they are few and far between, and often on premium channels.
Sure the technology is better when it comes to the internet, but what is the point when people can't use it properly or be creative with it? No site should need that many scripts or beacons. The internet used to cater to enthusiasts, hobbyists, and dedicated tight knit communities. What we have now are content mills spewing out as much shit as fast as possible for money, and people regurgitating this content on massive websites with sanitized advertiser friendly commentary; puking up narcissistic tat, or meaningless noise about the shit the content mills spew forth. Good communities and hobbyists sites still exist but they are dying, and fast.
>>55133604
>They also make legislative reform and regulation
This is legitimately the worst aspect of the modern internet. Over legislation has lead to; copyright nonsense, the ever expanding surveillance dragnet, the erosion of privacy, the trampling of consumer rights, the policing of speech/thought, geofencing, abusive EULAs, and heinously broad computer crime laws that allow for the prosecution of innocent people and prosecutorial overreach for petty acts.
>>55134638
The internet is better now because it is more widespread and democratic. Back in the mid 90s when you wanted info about Japanese animation you had to go to that godawful BBS. If you wanted Kernel news you had to sift through every single mail in the kernel maillist.
Nowadays we have online hyperlocal news and it's better than ever. Everything you think about chances are there is are multiple communities out there that want to talk about the same thing as you. Also online learning now is better than ever.
How the duck does yahoo have that much traffic
Is it because of tumblr?
>>55134933
It has a dedicated Indian news section, and lots people use yahoo email/messenger still.
>>55134933
I don't know if it's counted but Yahoo is big in Japan
>>55129745
Digg 2
>>55129574
Not when the United States of Iraq and the Levant becomes a country.
>>55134891
Anything "democratic" inevitably goes to shit. Prove me wrong. Back then you had to work for it and appreciated what you had. The internet is worst than 4chan with the proportion of shit versus diamonds.
>>55135128
>>55135132
It's North American traffic.
>>55126438
I miss my Nerdcore rap days. Rhyme Torrents was the best forum I've ever been a part of.
Whsass I wish things was like when I was younger, change is scary. Adapt or die you weaklings.
>>55130163
The alt.bin.* tree is infinitely superior to torrents
>>55131657
>can rock the turntable.... I'm unable
>>55133624
Mind explaining this to a non-/fit/?
>>55126438
>Ragnarok Online
;_;
>>55128379
>i am 12 and don't know how to set up QoS
>>55136435
Scooby was a bodybuilder who posted on YouTube for years. He was kind of eccentric, and gave tips and info on how neetfags can exercise and get fit at home.
He always presented his videos shirtless, and usually with a fedora. He started engaging with /fit/ when their obsession spilt over into the YouTube comments, and hid riddles specifically for 4chan into a few of the new videos. He valued his family's privacy, so they never featured in his videos, and he never really talked about them. However to the average anon, that means he's totally gay and likes teh buttsecks, then some more obsessed anons doxxed him, and sent threats to his family.
So he did what any normal human being would do when faced with creepy stalking motherfuckers. He stopped posting on 4chan, removed his videos, closed his account, and moved from the house he built (he was an engineer or something, he also built a plane in his shed).
>>55124074
this image makes me sad.
>>55129258
>And those Hungarian "funny image" sites with huge amounts of questionable content.
you mean napiszar?
>>55124074
>>55134093
>>55133352
BTW
Am I the only one who thinks irc is slowly returning to an alternative golden age?
>mainly used to talk about software dev
>no 8 year olds
>basically invisible for 99% of internet users
whats not to like?
I don't give a fuck about US traffic at all
>>55137568
>tfw US presidential election pollutes the internet
>>55137523
Do 12 year olds still use IRC? I was in some mainstream ones 10 years ago, and constantly got msgs from random 12 year olds that got there through some javascript webchat.
It is quiet now tho, but that's probably due to me staying with smaller channels with friends. + the odd channel someone on /g/ started.
>>55139609
DEJA VU WTH
>>55124074
>Is the internet of today better than it used to be?
There's more content, but its quality is very low.
I only surf a few websites on clearnet, otherwise I go use the networks like Tor. The feeling of browsing something untainted by corporations brings back 90's nostagia.
>>55139629
Stop browsing cp, anon
>>55124074
no, back in the day all kind of forums were active, now u have few main sites and everything else is pretty much dead.
>>55139741
While I do miss what we had back then, I've grown to prefer a site like this where the majority is anonymous and there aren't any tacky avatars/signatures or personal community drama
>>55141089
>personal community drama
There's /vg/. And there can be a lot of drama queens in those IRC channels that /g/ likes to make.
>>55142061
>There's /vg/
Yeah true. That shit was annoying back when I played GTA Online. Always some new namefag/tripfag forced drama every month.
>>55142080
That's still going on. They're crying about some discord thing now. Completely unrelated to the game.
I think the Internet is better than it ever has been.
>>55142099
Haha damn. Looks like I'll be witnessing that same shit if there ever is a RDR 2 or GTA 6.
>>55124074
Numbers on the last one are all over the place:pixels hits h/p
51.9k 368m 7.1k
37.8k 317m 8.4k
20.9 154m 7.4k
36.1k 260m 7.2k
24.6k 201m 8.2k
>>55133361
Yes but its unusable for the last year only
>>55142262
autism
>>55142371
No.
It started going to complete trash once all the DYEL's started giving off broscience advice and other bullshit and that started 3 years ago easily.
I fucking gave up on that board and providing actual peer reviewed sources. All the notable lifters did as well.
>>55142684
>notable lifters
How the fuck is this even a thing? You're just lifting some weights, not solving the riemann hypothesis.
What does one have to do to become a notable lifter?
>>55124074
Let's compare
Old internet:
>only those with interest or necessity were on the internet
>minimal tracking
>almost no javascript
>good, pure text-based web pages which are easy to read instead of giving a quick, dumb overview
>discussion happened on mailing lists and usergroups, raising the barrier to entry so that quality discussion took place
>people constantly set up their own smaller websites, often with specific purposes to host certain things like wads, maps for strategy games, programs that they've written or archived etc.
>there were a lot of competing operating systems and CPU architectures, so CS and CE students had a vast pool of resources to pull information from
>software development happened by sending patches over mailing lists
>people had decent knowledge of computers because they were forced to, which reduced the amount of posts crying about some retarded issue without giving any information
>people communicated in large IRC chatrooms so that finding new people to talk to was easy
>lots of variety in mailing lists, BBS, forums etc. to pick from for specific purposes, each with their own identifiable culture
>you could discuss any subject anywhere without needless politics being dragged into it
>1990-2005 being a golden age of video game creativity, variety of genres, topics etc.
>hardware market actually has competition with GPUs instead of red vs. green
Cont.
>>55142942
Actually have good lifts + an educational background (whether established or from researching yourself) + actually compete in some sort of athletics so you can help people with similar goals + been lifting for 4+ years.
>>55142998
>>55124074
New internet:
>tracking everywhere
>javascript everywhere
>websites are no longer good resources to gain information about but rather web 2.0 shit sites which give a quick overview and nothing else
>e-celebs and youtubers
>social network dominating the internet traffic
>lots of retarded millennials crying on social media because they didn't get an iphone for christmas
>social media drama and """scandals""" going viral and leaking into news, politics and used as memes
>the entire internet is politicised and it's impossible to discuss any given topics without politics being dragged into it somehow
>"""programmers""" today are fucking JS shits
>people can't even write decent commit messages for their patches, but simply write one-liners
>the entire market has been homogenised to locked in ARM architectures that cannot be interacted with on embedded devices
>the rest of the computer market is really just Windows and x86
>there's now no longer an identifiable culture to websites and it's just """online culture""" even on smaller websites because of the cultural dominance of social media
>people no longer set up hobby websites to host archives of modifications, maps, wads etc.
>everyone is completely incapable of spending more than 2 seconds looking for something
>people unironically being hyped for E3
>every video game is just the average shitty FPS
>>55143039
So to summarize, you just have to spend all day lifting weights? How is that even an accomplishment?
>>55143144
No?
The above would be maybe 3-4 days a week and a typical routine maybe takes an hour out of your day. So 4-5 hours a week.
Then usually people's educational background comes from University anyways either doing another degree and using your open options for it or by taking something more sports related.
Competition then comes from just having a hobby you enjoy, maybe like weightlifting or participating in marathons or weightlifting competitions at different levels.
Like it currently only eats up 5 hours of my time lifting during the week. Then I do Yoga because it is fun for flexibility and hitting on qts. Then during the weekend I usually take some time to go rockclimb which is fun. So maybe 10 hours out of my week tops right now? Not competing though, coming off an injury.
>>55129802
Obama got elected
>>55136545
Imagine being forced out of a house that you built. The poor bastard, I hope he's doing well.
>>55136545
he built a plane in his shed?
>>55143994
It wasn't his shed per say. Plus the anon did leave some shit out.
It's unlikely that he moved based on his newer videos. The guy also basically owns a little hanger where he builds his plane.
If I remember right the YouTube channel is Scooby1911 or some shit.
>>55144034
>"per say"
please kill yourself and read a book after you do it
illiterate piece of shit
>>55144262
Blow me turbonerd.
>>55143144
You're moving the goalposts. You don't need to have "accomplishments" in order to be notable.
For instance, you're a notable shitposter, but I don't consider being obtuse about language on an anonymous imageboard to be an accomplishment.
>>55124074
I'm glad that today we have script/ad blockers and websites don't change your cursor and lag your PC anymore.
>>55128521
Ugh. So badly drawn.
>>55124074
why would small websites need to throw out so much data to its users?
text hasn't become more bandwidth heavy
>>55145493
We now have websites with undocumented keyboard shortcuts. There are so many that activates random crap when i press the shortcuts for moving the cursor to the address line or reloading. L on vimeo is for the login field i think, so ctrl+l messes up.
Some sites do things when you double or tripple-click on text too. annoying when I want to select a word or paragraph.
>>55129892
/k/ actually has nationwide meetups, state meets, web stores, and FFL's. They actually do shit.
Internet has sucked since the MySpace days left...
Then Facebook took over and everything got smaller. And more bland. It's all so boring and lifeless now...
>>55147239
Really nigger? MySpace was even more cancerous garbage.
>>55131434
Top lel
>>55124455
>the US is not the globe
This.
Internet is dead because "Internet = Usa " and "To be successful in Internet you need be successful in Usa"
We need people of Africa, Asia and Europe in internet.
We just gotta scrap the experiment and start the semantic web
>>55143095
>>55142998
I use the internet to get information. not all information can be said in text.
old internet severely lacked both speed and consolidation in resources.
so finding what you wanted was a nightmare and even when you found it, at best it was text with the shittiest image next to it possible, only understandable if you were already above the level to gain knowledge from said information.
take the good with the bad.
you dont need point 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 14, 16, 17
and as for point 15, get the fuck over yourself.
>This faggot doesn't want to spend the better part of hours learning what the fuck they are doing wrong, instead would like someone willing to help them to tell them even what to look for
yea, fuck that guy who doesn't want to waste his life.
>>55128521
>>55131991
My AdBlocker tells me how many things on a page it catches: 4chan has 2, most sites have 5 or 6, a porn site can have up to 15, but Breitbart consistently gets between 40 and 50.
>>55134891
Sure. But how many people are seeking alternative culture, quality information and esoteric knowledge now that BuzzFeed like list aggregation, sponsored content articles and like buttons supersaturate the search results.
Hugh throughput through a limited number of outlets is the schematic of a sewer system, not a self sustaining self inventing global entity.
Everything instantly becomes a repost served to the idiot masses through a least common denominator filter to ensure nothing substantial gets through.
This is the state of the Internet today.
>>55134891
>The internet is better now because it is more widespread and democratic.
>Implying that letting plebeians get hold of something has ever improved it
>>55124074
no
corporations taking over more than ever, running small businesses out of business if they dont adopt to using their marketplaces
and even outside of business shit normies keep ruining sites, 4chan being no exception. Obviously there's different tiers of normies, with grandparents, soccer moms and similar being amongst the bottom tier, such is the rotting death many sites end up facing, like facebook. Dont get me wrong facebook was never good and you were a normie if you used it but its from my understanding those are the only type of users left.
>>55148846
do note that many pages those are just repeats where it tries to load one ad and if it fails another or a third
no
greed took over
ads spiraled out of control
companies manipulated social outlets to maximize profit
mass scale of reposting devalued OC
generic blog creation sites devalued actual blogs
selling cheap indie games ruined flash games
youtube and the potential for profit ruined many animators and video creators
people simply dont want to do stuff for fun anymore, they want money or their 5 seconds of fame
laziness as well, the average consumer never wants to go past the first page on a search engine. Also people are fine with large sites telling them what they want and should read.
>>55148811
fix'd
>>55150277
>mfw I made a Facebook this weekend after being off of it for 6 years because apparently just emailing is too hard for my friends since I travel the world
I am already annoyed and it has been two days.
I am going to give it like a year adjustment period or so just to see what the fuck the deal is but I already have a sneaking suspicion that it is useless.
Twitter seems even more fucking stupid.
Instagram I can see the niche.
>>55148846
>breitbart
I was on there the other day, and I think somethig fucked up, I was at like 2.5K when I was done
>>55150828
If its just to talk to people, use messenger.com
web based version of the messenger app
>>55124074
Not even fucking close.
I've been on the internet since 1995, 1997 is when it really began and stopped being a curiosity for university students, and 2001 is when it reached its peak. It was well and truly in the toilet by 2006, and it's been downhill ever since.
>>55147953
>We need people of Africa, Asia and Europe in internet.
Actually the Internet was best when it was 90% white educated males only. Russians, Brazilians, Chinese and pajeets have played a major role in ruining it.
>>55124074
Someone explain this. Ok Google is a search engine you search for websites that are not Google(not counting gmail and other services), so shouldn't there be MORE different websites that people go to and that it is too microscopic to be detailed on that infographic and therefore it is inaccurate?
>>55124074
So my feeling that the internet has become boring with me visiting the same couple of sites does have some merit. Interesting.
No, the internet today isn't better, because there is less variety and it has become more corporate.
>>55150828
>make facebook 5 years ago
>gather some facebook friends over the years
>unfollow more and more because getting tired of stupid, trivial shit and spam shares in my feed
>end up just following a handful of friends that almost never post and for the rest it's just a new feed for music bands and festivals and such
eh, could be worse.
>>55124074
ZeroNet aims to change this https://zeronet.io/
>>55153647
btw i don't know what i am talking about. Please make fun of me.
>>55153674
No, people go to the nearest best match website. They hardly browse past page 3 on Google since the results provided are very accurate majority of times. This narrows the amount of popular websites to a small number. The rest of the web is ignored and explored only when you search for really niche or obscure shit.
>>55129745
r/all is SHIT. But there are so many other smaller subreddits that are a 100 times better. Hate r/news? Use /r/neutralnews. Hate /r/the_donald? Fucking block it you cuck. I hate it when people forget that they can't customize their feed and then rant that reddit is going to shit. Use metareddit to find good places that have a specific discussion about a topic and stay away from the top 10, then you'll love reddit. This is one of the most resourceful websites out there as well as the shittiest website at the same time. Depends on how YOU use it.
>>55131062
take me back.
>>55132022
Oh man, facebook is unusable now. The timeline is nothing but garbage and ads
>>55137568
>He thinks US market doesn't reflect other markets.
It's probably even worse in smaller markets where there is not as much tech development. Russian internet is boring as fuck outside of a few sites central sites. Even their biggest social network is pretty shitty. If it wasn't for 10/10 slavic girls it would have been dead
>>55129258
ahhh, the good old privi.hu where you could get pictures of 12 year old aspiring pornstars
>>55149086
>normie
There are no nomal people, only faggots like you
>>55154278
Then stop liking stupid shit.
Every time you like, comment or click on anything. FB uses that signal to influence what shows up in your feed in the future.
Learn to use lists (if not learn to Facebook) you can customize those to isolate people like close friends, work colleagues, girls you only friended so you could fap to their photos.
>>55154070
It's already a problem when you have to filter through the crap. Smaller subreddits are better off being their own things just like a lot of the small boards on 4chan because specialised information hubs do not really benefit much from a bigger sized audience, never has, never will.
>>55154429
You really think I haven't done that?
Shortly after I just realised it's easier to just sms people or if something interesting happened they'd tell me the whole story, rather than deal with facebook.
I'm really not interested in others lives unless they directly interfere with mine, same applies to everybody in reality.
>>55154444
>It's already a problem when you have to filter through the crap.
How is that a problem? It's literally the thing that makes it good
>>55154601
Use legacy captcha
