Is it harder? It was very hard to find anything on the old internet.
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maness300@lemmy.world 5 months agoCounterpoint: the Internet still exists as it did back then, but relatively smaller compared to what it’s become.
You just need to find the right people and content to interact with, which is harder now because there’s so much more garbage. I’d say they have grown in absolute numbers.
lolcatnip@reddthat.com 5 months ago
jaybone@lemmy.world 5 months ago
No. 2000s Google, I could search for a specific string in quotes (like an obscure error message trying to boot xbmc on an old xbox, or a kernel patch for a hackintosh) Now it’s all some SEO bullshit about how I need to watch some asshole’s 10 minute YouTube video about something tangentially related.
laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
i search for error messages all the time on ddg and it usually finds relevant results. it fails when errors are not sufficiently obscure, such as a common python error occurring in many code bases, permissions errors, vaguely-worded errors etc. But there is no way for the internet to guess context in such a situation. spam is not a problem.
if google is so bad stop using it.
ThirdWorldOrder@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Just had to find the right webring /s
laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
grue@lemmy.world 5 months ago
I get what you’re saying that '90s-style content is largely still there if you look for it, but this…
…has nevertheless destroyed the “Internet as it existed back then,” which was specifically an Internet where finding such content was easy.
Euphoma@lemmy.ml 5 months ago
You can find a lot of old school websites hosted on neocities, though a lot of them are more of an art project than an actual website.
laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
But all our tripod, angelfire, geocities etc websites were little art projects.
laserjet@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
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