You’re right, the buggy part has the early internet feel to it, which feels (to me at least) like possibility, promise and adventure.
I digress but remember when you used to search for something on a search engine and get thousands of pages of answers and most of them were not main stream media telling you what to think but off beat websites that sometimes had a totally different view?? I miss that…
It's so bad now that I am frequently getting really annoyed by them, and I mainly am searching for technical stuff about Golang.
The number of subjects that are not covered on wikipedia, and the stuff they do have is so fuckin bogus. Wikipedia has just turned into a roadhouse toilet complete with glory hole and complete bullshit scrawled everywhere and the smell of leaking sewer pipes.
I’d heard that Wikipedia is compromised, which may account for the junk in there 🙈
Yeah, Wikipedia is practically worthless for information about anything that might contradict the Current Thing. More than several observed cases of edits preceding campaigns of political and propaganda.
And to think once upon a time I was naive and donated to them thinking that they were ok.
I remember the sheer wonder of books as a child where anything was possible, filled with all kinds of knowledge. I remember reading as much as I could get my hands on about everything from ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece to Japanese history, science, math etc etc
I thought that Wikipedia would grow to become the chest of wonders that I recalled as a child. 🤷🏼♀️
Yeah, it's been a harsh awakening for many of us. The intuition about it is what made this whole cypherpunk game theory thing so fascinating - that if we had the correct protocol we could abolish certain things entirely forever.
It's still true, just that in most cases we don't have the protocol yet.
But also … all this Google stuff about making the internet safe and blocking sites because they disagree with MSM or that every single thing is monetised 😔😔
I miss the old internet
