[HN Gopher] The Old Internet Shows Signs of Quietly Coming Back
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The Old Internet Shows Signs of Quietly Coming Back
Author : ColinWright
Score : 20 points
Date : 2022-01-25 22:24 UTC (36 minutes ago)
(HTM) web link (cheapskatesguide.org)
(TXT) w3m dump (cheapskatesguide.org)
| chomp wrote:
| http://web.archive.org/web/20220125222736/https://cheapskate...
| alamortsubite wrote:
| This post is from yesterday. Why the Internet Archive link?
| ceocoder wrote:
| "technology is cyclical" -Dennis Duffy, 30 Rock.
|
| Jokes aside, I do not know if this is me getting older and
| becoming more grouchy and/or some of the tools (Gmail, Google
| Search, macOS/MacBook <whichever>) we've been using for a while
| are becoming more obtuse and less user (or power user) friendly
| in name of <some product goal>
| kstrauser wrote:
| I sure hope that's right. It was the best feeling in the world to
| stand up an Apache server on my Amiga, and later my little
| FreeBSD server, and see my friends viewing the website I was
| hosting on my dialup connection. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't
| elegant, and it certainly wasn't fast, _but it was mine_. I made
| that. From installing the server to writing the HTML, I owned
| that service from end to end and had completely freedom to do
| whatever I wanted with it.
|
| That's what I want the Internet to look like for my younger
| family and friends. It'll probably never happen exactly this way,
| but I can picture someone running an IPv6-only service on their
| phone to impress their friends. I know what their smile would
| look like because that was once my smile, too.
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