When the Internet Was a Place

 (frontporchrepublic.com)

36 points | by herbertl 6 hours ago

5 comments

  • qsera 1 hour ago
    And a little while before that, the desktop computer was a mystical thing that could take you to wonderlands. I was truly an intriguing machine, instead of just another home appliance.
  • Ayaan2004 2 hours ago
    i love those days where we uses visit internet cafes to play games and enjoys the internet through searching in google.com
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    • altern8 13 minutes ago
      altavista.com
  • pixelpoet 2 hours ago
    The article seems to repeat its thesis almost verbatim three times.
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    • booleandilemma 2 hours ago
      Thanks. Glad I'm not the only one who felt that. I think the author just learned the word panopticon.
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      • userbinator 59 minutes ago
        It doesn't have the usual giveaways of LLM text (except for the rather prominent dashes) but definitely has a similar verboseness and repetitiveness. Human writing can be like that too, if its author wanted to pad it out to a word quota.
  • booleandilemma 2 hours ago
    The thing that kills me is how serious it's gotten. Can't joke around anymore, not unless you're doing it ironically.
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