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How do you guys remember the early days of the internet? What do you miss about it? (tim.kicker.dev)

submitted 2 years ago by Provider@feddit.de to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Wanted to ask you about this article, how do you remember the early days of the internet (I was sadly too young at that time). Do you wish it back? And do you think it can ever be like that again? I would be very interested

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[–] noctiswhole@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Has writing really become that hard to do?

It's probably more to do with discoverability and monetization. I'm generalizing a ton, but I feel like there isn't even a ton of super useful YouTube tutorials outside of beginner content because that gets the most views.

[–] frankboon@mas.to 1 points 2 years ago

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Yes, plus especially craters have discovered that tutorial on YT are more discoverable than their sites in the still so called search engine - as those sites are commonly found only after a more specific query, and mostly only after going through a dozen of pages of sponsored and irrelevant search results. Google's enshittification of the search engine in all of its glory!
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