I miss Web 1.0. You click a link, you get to the website, you read the content.

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1. dpk@chaos.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

   @jschauma @janl after you dismiss 10 pop-up ads and stop the autoplay MIDI

2. dreddie@social.vivaldi.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

   @jschauma Hopefully the Web 5.0 is something like that again. No idea what Web 4.0 will be like though.

3. larvitz@burningboard.net@burningboard.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

   @jschauma I miss the <marquee> and <blink> tags and the animated GIFs that dominated pretty much every Geocities website bacm in the day :-)

4. dougmerritt@mathstodon.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

   @jschauma
   Related (just posted, I haven't tried it):

   kage: Shadow any website for offline viewing, with the JavaScript stripped out
   https://lobste.rs/s/rhrh3k
   https://github.com/tamnd/kage

5. darwinwoodka@mastodon.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

   @jschauma

   right???

6. sirius_a@mas.to ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

   @jschauma https://dir.dillo-browser.org/

7. neverbeaten@mas.to ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

   @jschauma
   Some sites like that still exist, but they're not promoted by google in search results very well.

   Kagi has a "small web" tool and focus that ONLY shows you those small web sites.

8. flyingpenguin@infosec.exchange ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

   @jschauma agree! www.flyingpenguin.com since 1995. still going... spent the last six years working directly for TimBL, didn't change a thing.

9. rl_dane@polymaths.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

   @jschauma

   @dillo browser, links, w3m, chawan, and NetSurf are still great options.

   No, you won't be able to access some sites,
   But you'll be able to access many sites, and you can bookmark the ones that work well. :)

10. ianrogers@mstdn.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma well ok but how do we make it "sticky" haha

11. humanhorseshoes@mastodon.world@mastodon.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma

12. Lyle@cville.online ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma I blame Rick Astley. It was perfect until then

13. BorisBarbour@mastodon.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma

    Instead of being routed through Substack and Google and God knows where else.

14. joe_vinegar@mastodon.bida.im ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma may I interest you in the Gemini Protocol?
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_(protocol)

    sadly I cannot find any newly updated clients for Android, the most recent I use is Buran from 2022
    https://f-droid.org/packages/corewala.gemini.buran
    but I loved the gemini capsules.

    And I just discovered the writing counterpart, Titan:
    https://communitywiki.org/wiki/Titan

15. gilgwath@social.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma good old days. That reminds me of several versions of "you have reached the end of the internet". 😬

16. helava@mastodon.cloud ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma @briankrebs …and the content was written because someone wanted to write it, not optimize for search hits or AI nonsense or ad engagement.

17. xawery@social.sdfeu.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma that's why I like gopher and Gemini

18. gabrielmarkley@techhub.social@techhub.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma Me too! Remember the old days lol.

19. nekoplanet@mastodon.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma Search engines were so useless that curated lists - aka web rings - and trading bookmarks over IRC was the search engine :D

20. carlmalamud@official.resource.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma @SRDas plus, you might get a blincky as an added bonus. What’s not to love?!

21. llewelly@sauropods.win ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma no real person used vapid marketing terms like "content" to refer to writing or websites prior to about 2005.

22. bignose@social.chinwag.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I don't understand, where's the step where everyone pays me @jschauma

23. Emerson61@toot.community ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma I miss Web 0.0 -- BBSes, Usenet, Telnet, Kermit, MUDs, IRC... even the walled gardens of AOL/Prodigy/Compuserve more; and Web 2.0, a world of open APIs and mashups even more, tbh. We just live in the worst combination of 1960 AT&T x 1992 AOL of all possible timelines, so early 1.0 web web seems more useful than it was in retrospect.

24. cthellis@urusai.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma @negativeprimes Shocking, if true.

25. brownphotographic@fosstodon.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma thanks for reminding me. Case in point. Here's one from 20 years ago.... http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/15/newsid_2512000/2512669.stm

    Now I live in the US and I see this

    https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce8mv6l6eezo

26. 0x00string@infosec.exchange ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma that shit slapped fr

27. nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma Even the annoying stuff like the flash ads or Hamsterdance sites or even the sites that had a 100% guarantee of putting a virus on the systems of anyone using IE were still just so much better...

28. mxchara@seattle.pink@seattle.pink ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma yeah. remember the "Semantic Web" idea? I liked that. it was the idea that HTML tags ought to be symbolic in nature rather than explicitly formatted. that way, the interpretation of the symbols could be left up to the client-side software. so instead of minutely specifying typefaces and colors and spacing and such, you use functional tags.

29. LaD_Hallo@mastodon.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma Or Napster...another nice concept.

30. gusseting@mastodon.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    RE: https://toot.community/@jorijn/116757993572364654

    @jschauma Mind blowing re: data harvesting + where that goes + what for. 🤯
    #NoAI

    "* Messages with cycle suggestions are displayed on the SmartThings App.** Available on Android and iOS devices. A Wi-Fi connection and a Samsung account are required."

31. cogdog@cosocial.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma That's rad.

32. droidboy@social.cologne ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma Do you know uberblogr.de? :)

33. patricus@gts.posix.live ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma I don't, web 1.0 was primitive, lacked capabilities that make online banking, and stuff a blind person needs impossible

34. 45c3IF85N@mstdn.party ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma gopher / gemini protocols are for you.

35. wortezimmer@ruhr.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma
    Just these days I've been thinking along the same lines, but my conclusion was 2.0 would be okay for me.

36. virbonus@sueden.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma And all you needed to make Your own site was an editor and a one page HTML cheat sheet.

37. meraord@mastodonsweden.se ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma It was great.

38. youseeatortoise@wandering.shop ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma Better times. Which are coming back, ironically, as you can't find any websites on the internet anymore.

39. fasnix@fe.disroot.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    @jschauma
    That's why indieweb, yesterweb and the gemini:// protocol exist :)
40. feliz@norden.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma

41. howtophil@mastodon.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    @jschauma Have you checked out the small but thriving #gopher community? (pre-web or web-alternative from the ancient times)

    People are still making content served up by #gopherServers. Just links and text.

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    A link: http://gopher.quux.org:70/