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The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back

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622 points ColinWright | 9 comments | 25 Jan 22 22:24 UTC | HN request time: 0.887s | source | bottom
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kstrauser ◴[25 Jan 22 22:58 UTC] No.30079330[source]▶
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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1. pratnala ◴[25 Jan 22 23:04 UTC] No.30079383[source]▶
Yeah no, I wish we don't go back to that. It doesn't scale at all.
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2. _jal ◴[25 Jan 22 23:06 UTC] No.30079397[source]▶
Why does it need to?

You are not Amazon. In the unlikely event you become Amazon, you will be able to rearchitect. Trust me, Amazon did.

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3. Guest42 ◴[25 Jan 22 23:07 UTC] No.30079407[source]▶
True, but I think the point was to be original and random and perhaps be popular as a result, rather than tailor everything for popularity.
4. mdoms ◴[25 Jan 22 23:08 UTC] No.30079417[source]▶
Not everything needs to scale.
5. emptybottle ◴[25 Jan 22 23:11 UTC] No.30079452[source]▶
HTML scales exceptionally well
6. adamrezich ◴[25 Jan 22 23:13 UTC] No.30079471[source]▶
nimforum*, which powers the official Nim forums, doesn't scale for shit, yet totally works for the scale of that community. not everything needs to massively scale, and, in fact, I think the mistaken belief that everything has to scale has led to many people being dissuaded from building smaller communities like back in The Old Days.

* https://github.com/nim-lang/nimforum

7. gary_0 ◴[25 Jan 22 23:16 UTC] No.30079508[source]▶
Never worry too much about problems you want to have.
8. ravenstine ◴[26 Jan 22 00:13 UTC] No.30080013[source]▶
LOL If anything, a more barebones internet scales better. The less data you're sending, the more connections you can handle simultaneously, and the less code you'll need. When communication is more decentralized, there's not much of a need for most sites to need to think that much about scaling. We don't need the next Facebook or the next Reddit. I'd love to go back to more independent forums. Maybe with something better than vBulletin, at least.
9. coldtea ◴[26 Jan 22 00:22 UTC] No.30080076[source]▶
Who the fuck cares if it scales? It's better if it doesn't scale. Scale is what brought us Facebook and monopolies like Google.