Subj : Re: THE INTERNET AT LARGE, IS DEAD
To   : nethius
From : k9zw
Date : Tue May 16 2023 19:00:30

On 16 May 2023, nethius said the following...
 
 ne> What has the internet become?
 ne> 
 ne> Years ago the internet was filled with an incredible assortment of small
 ne> pages maintained by dedicated people. The BBS was common, people had
 ne> conversations, and ads and censorship were few and far between. 

Some of the earlier style internet remains, but it is cloaked by the monetarized internet.

Some that went away deserved to suffer data-death, as while we romanticized the great stuff, we did have to wallow in the muck between islands of sanity.

Some lingers on (The Well, as an example) and have become hopeless echo-chambers of teh very worst of its past.  

Between Bots and Trolls content suffers.

Yet there are some stawarts that keep to the faith.  

Interestingly in the timeframe you mention my long running blog (about 17 years now) saw a sudden drop in traffic as things were steered to monetarized alterntives. 

--- Steve K9ZW via SPOT BBS 

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