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Funes- ◴[] No.43993687[source]
Nice site. I miss the pre social media, pre-hypercommercial, pre mass surveillance Internet of old. It was mostly the product of genuine, sincere self-expression. Now it feels and even works like an infomercial, a scam, everywhere you look, filled to the brim with grifters and corporations trying to take ahold of your attention (and money). It's disgusting and inefficient at almost anything you attempt to do on it because of that terrible fact. It used to serve as a refuge from all the ailments sprung out of the hypercapitalistic endeavours and otherwise fakeness of the modern world, and its enforcers: normies. For many, many years now, it's been the exact opposite: it's turned into the epitome of what it helped us escape from, and it permeates every moment of our waking lives, directly or indirectly.

The site's list ends very appropriately with the iPhone's presentation in 2007. The beginning of the end.

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yaky ◴[] No.43998763[source]
Check out the simpler Internet through the gemini protocol [0]. It's lightweight on purpose, and the capsules (gemini "sites") are mostly text. There are aggregators [1] and even search [2].

0: https://geminiprotocol.net/

1: gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/

2: Gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/

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1. Funes- ◴[] No.43999643[source]
>Check out the simpler Internet through the gemini protocol [0].

Heh. I've been around the block in terms of compulsively trying to find alternatives to the ill-fated world wide web, my friend. I've hosted content on many of them, too, including gemini, which I really liked.