Oh I hear ya. I’m an old fart who started on Gopher, first browsed the ‘World Wide Web’ in Lynx in a Unix session and thought visiting AltaVista in Mosaic was the shit.
The way the net (and tech in general) has been in a downward spiral for so long, when originally there was so much promise, infuriates me.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go feed my horse.
Oh I hear ya. I’m an old fart who started on Gopher, first browsed the ‘World Wide Web’ in Lynx in a Unix session and thought visiting AltaVista in Mosaic was the shit.
The way the net (and tech in general) has been in a downward spiral for so long, when originally there was so much promise, infuriates me.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I need to go feed my horse.
Two words my friebd: Fred Mail.
In related news I just found out that google has decided to start ignoring the site:.au command
So what little use i had for it on a commercial front is now utterly gone.
NNTP and IRC are still there. We could go back. We’ll probably go back. Like kids discovering HAM radio.