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50 votes
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Core Internet – what sites and services should we permanently preserve?
Looking ahead, the commodification and degradation of the Internet is continuing to take away digital resources that we have come to depend upon over the last 20 years. Whether it’s email or...
Looking ahead, the commodification and degradation of the Internet is continuing to take away digital resources that we have come to depend upon over the last 20 years. Whether it’s email or Amazon or YouTube, the decline of all our favorites has been well documented.
But we don’t want to live without these sites and services. Tildes itself is an attempt to preserve one such resource but in a better and more stable way. What other parts of the Internet deserve similar treatment?
Whether it’s open source eBay or community banking or nonprofit versions of Facebook… what would you choose and how would you go about preserving its character and making it workable in the long-term?
36 votes -
"Birds Aren't Real" leader TED talk about his movement | Peter McIndoe
29 votes -
You've just been fucked by psyops; the death of the internet
20 votes -
Welcome to the ad-free internet
37 votes -
The most dangerous Canadian internet bill you’ve never heard of is a step closer to becoming law
34 votes -
A new internet standard called L4S could significantly lower the amount of time we spend waiting for things to load
37 votes -
History of country code top-level domains, with a map of the most popular ones in use | Map Men
14 votes -
The internet is worse than ever – now what?
28 votes -
The history of emoticons
3 votes -
US cable lobby and Ted Cruz are disappointed as FCC bans digital discrimination
43 votes -
The people who ruined the internet
73 votes -
Google decides to pull up the ladder on the open internet, pushes for unconstitutional regulatory proposals
66 votes -
Trial testimony - Google considered and rejected creating a form of search that doesn't track users history from website to website
14 votes -
Internet Artifacts
61 votes -
The poster’s guide to the internet of the future
22 votes -
Why is Elon Musk attacking Wikipedia? Because its very existence offends him.
84 votes -
"Saints, Knaves, and Moralists of Internet Communities" by Ian Vanagas, based on the writings of Peter Turchin
12 votes -
The unreasonable effectiveness of plain text
21 votes -
Have I been [domain] squatted?
16 votes -
Have I Been Pwned?
38 votes -
An audacious plan to halt the Internet's enshittification - Cory Doctorow
53 votes -
New Zealand Matrix fan film becomes oldest active torrent in the world
47 votes -
The Brazillian who nutted in his Dreamcast: Leonam's journey
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Gen Z falls for online scams more than their boomer grandparents do
73 votes -
US FCC details plan to restore the net neutrality rules repealed by Ajit Pai: banning fast lanes and ISP restrictions on legal content
50 votes -
The movement for affordable, community-led broadband: Grassroots organizations like NYC Mesh want to close the digital divide, one rooftop at a time
20 votes -
Why scalpers can get Olivia Rodrigo tickets and you can't
12 votes -
Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month
96 votes -
Tim Berners-Lee 'sorry' for slashes (2009)
27 votes -
Timeline of the history of the web
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And then Elon Musk said there’ll be no more war – not via his satellite. Aren’t we lucky to have the world in his hands?
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How Barstool built an empire by swiping sports highlights and music clips online
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How telling people to die became normal - merciless trolling is a fact of online life that may never go away
37 votes -
Blockchains are entering their “broadband era”
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Make the Wayback Machine the real internet
46 votes -
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, kiwifarms, death, harassment: a critique
58 votes -
Senator admits "Kids Online Safety Act" will target trans content online
28 votes -
France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet
49 votes -
Bringing back the minimal web
112 votes -
Web scraping for me, but not for thee
19 votes -
The world’s last internet cafes
23 votes -
What "lost" web page would you like to find again?
What was your favorite web page back in the day that you would visit religiously and tell all your friends about but have since lost? Did it shutter permanently or did you lose the bookmark when...
What was your favorite web page back in the day that you would visit religiously and tell all your friends about but have since lost? Did it shutter permanently or did you lose the bookmark when switching computers never to find it again?
Back in the days of printed web page yellow pages and search engines you had to submit your page to be reviewed before it was listed, I had found a page about movie easter eggs, errors and insider information. It had factoids about nearly 1000 movies ranging from obscure facts, mistakes in editing, anachronisms, funny on-set stories and the like.
It was fun to read that this character was named after the art directors niece, the stunt car is visible losing 8 hubcaps in the main chase, etc. It was amazing to read how different movies would interact (IIRC, Kim Bassinger's gasp/jump reaction to opening the door in "Batman" was real due to them having a xenomoprh from Aliens there instead of Jack Nicholson since they were filming at the same time). It was also cool to read that certain characters made cameos in other movies (most people caught that Randolph and Mortimer Duke from "Trading Places" were in "Coming to America" but there are so many other not as obvious blink-and-you'll-miss-it cameos). I never would have noticed the car visible in the background of Johnny Cage vs Scorpion in the orchard fight in "Mortal Kombat" without this page--and now I can never unsee it when I watch it.
I don't know if I lost the bookmark or if the page shut down so I deleted it but any search I've undertaken for this page in the last few decades only seems to return listicles like "21 obvious anachronisms in modern movies!" but not my all comprehensive target.
Honorable mention to Damn Interesting (although I did find that one again after a few years). Although it's underwent some turbulance and changes since I first disovered it, I would often reread the articles and gleefully looked forward to each new article when I was younger. With article names like Lake Peigneur: The Swirling Vortex of Doom it was hard not to be intrigued.
79 votes -
'Arc' browser is now available to download without a waitlist (for macOS)
38 votes -
The King of Jordan approved a cybercrime bill that will crack down on online speech deemed harmful to national unity
18 votes -
AI is ruining the Internet
88 votes -
$5 billion Google lawsuit over ‘Incognito mode’ tracking moves a step closer to trial
58 votes -
How often do you go through your bookmarks/favorites?
I recently switch browsers from Safari to Orion after many, many years. I imported all of my bookmarks and then realized that I couldn't remember the last time I went through them to see what was...
I recently switch browsers from Safari to Orion after many, many years. I imported all of my bookmarks and then realized that I couldn't remember the last time I went through them to see what was still useful (or even around).
I also realized that I don't save a ton of bookmarks anymore as I keep all of my browsing history available and search through that.
How often do you all go through your bookmarks/favorites?
34 votes -
Douglas Adams - Hyperland | A fantastical guided look at the future of the internet as imagined by Douglas Adams in the 1990s
24 votes -
What would the internet of people look like now?
39 votes