Hello! I’m from GenZ and recently I discovered what is Limewire. Is it true that Limewire took hours to download a song and often downloaded viruses or malware? I'm familiar with Napster because I saw the movie The Social Network a while back. Did the same thing happen with that one, or was it more secure? Thanks a lot.
At the moment i am using Win 11, and i hate it. XP and 7 were my favorite Windows OS.
But i never forget this key which i was using 2 decades ago. I loved those days.
Three years ago I started focusing my online activity on preserving old stuff from old websites and magazines. I currently recover early 2000s blog posts, articles and amateur poetry written in Italian and concerning neo paganism, before they completely disappear from the web or the Wayback Machine/Achive.org.
I’m sharing my story here because making connections in Italy has been difficult, if not impossible. Here people seem to be focused only on social media or commercial/industrial web development.
I’d love to ask this community a few questions, but feel free to answer to what you want, not necessarily everything.
Thank you for reading this wall of text, I’m looking forward to reading your thoughts, ideas and websites!
For me, it’s pretty crazy to believe that this god damn number is burned into my brain: 425829246 and I made this account back in 2005/2006.
I remember when social networks were places to socialize with friends and see who knew who.
I started Collegester in 2003 and launched a month after TheFacebook. got some cool stuff if interested
this is my old profile: https://web.archive.org/web/20040807112433/http://www.collegester.com/index.php?mode=people_card&p_id=2
miss the good ole dayz!!!
I don't know if anyone remembers this, but back when I was young, I found this fun website where it was just a house and you could click on things around the house and it'd do little random stuffs. The main thing i remember is you could change the lightning in the bathroom i think (probably not, idk), you could make like a full list of a breakfast, lunch, and dinner calendar thing for the kitchen if you clicked on the calendar and you could even print it out. Also, I think there was a studio room where you could change like who was sitting on the chair, and background, and the music, but it was all pre-made, you couldn't add new stuff.
(This was NOT a horror game, I know that much, it was just a normal website)
It just entered my head before bed and now I need to find this website again, if it's gone, I'm gonna be so sad, I'm sorry I don't have much information.
(Gonna post this in the other sub-reddit too!)
Nah, mate, no way. Social media chocked the spirit out of the old internet and the indieweb. AI slurry is polluting social media. Pouring both into a Claude shaped trash can, giving it a stir, and calling the stinking garbage your left with a new social media platform is a waste of everyone's damn time.
If you had to vibe-code a simple social media app you're already way out of your depth. Coding's the easy part. Always has been. Handling traffic spikes, the tidal wave of support requests, regulatory hounds and the inevitable lawsuits will all flatten your little pet project. Unless you sell out to the VC money, you're cooked before you even get started.
If you really wanna resurrect something of the old internet, build yourself a damn forum. Build a proper community. Focus on some tiny niche hobby or interest that won't attract the wild rabble hoards. Something you can manage on a tiny budget and in the hours you're not working your day job.
The article from the NYT. It's a gift article.
Can you name some old websites? Those with the old design, like from the 2000s. Those that no one maintains anymore?
Relevance: the article title is essentially this podcasts title
https://arctotherium.substack.com/p/the-closure-of-the-internet
An unmatched thorough recounting of the past 15 years of Internet censorship. The article focuses on the waves of censorship, often a hysteria, that is largely organized by opaque "para-governmental" organizations that are not bound by free speech laws. In many cases, the censorship is explicitly requested by a government body, i.e. the Twitter Files, Australia's eSafety commissioner, the EU.
The author has a right-wing bias and so in my opinion should have used more examples of liberal/left-wing figures that were censored (I know two podcast hosts that have had problems with it). But the author is correct in identifying that every single censorship drive has a strong progressive bias with special prejudice toward anything deemed "far right".
I really liked how this article reminded me of the different Internet from 15 years ago. For example, how common it was to find active fiery comment-section debates at nearly every newspaper website . And, for example, open-source software projects never cared about your politics.
Excellent and necessary article IMO
anyone wanna join my social media platform? im trying to bring enough people over to lift the platform off the ground, its time to get rid of the algorithms and non stop feeds.
I’m looking for blog type of websites the most, but I’m up for anything. I accidentally made it to a rotten.com archive after hearing it in a comment and compared to today’s internet it’s a whole different world LMAO. It’s bizarre how freeing it was to read someone’s pages long paragraph about dog shit but I’m not complaining
For whatever reason, this subreddit seems to get a ton of AI-generated posts.
Also, apparently a lot of people have not yet learned the pattern recognition to spot AI-generated content.
So, there is an AI detector called Pangram that you can use for free. It’s apparently pretty accurate: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pangram_(AI_detector)#Efficacy
Anecdotally, my subjective pattern recognition of whether something is AI or not has agreed with Pangram so far whenever I’ve used it.
Pangram: https://www.pangram.com/
See, for example, what happens when you copy and paste the text above into Pangram: https://www.pangram.com/history/b3f01db7-7f75-4a8d-a9da-30fc248b1c9b?ucc=K1xs21CjScU
It gives a verdict of 100% human-written.
Does anyone remember these?
LOL, never owned one myself but remember seeing them where I worked. I might have even used it.
Kids today won't know what this is.
