We build our computer systems the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins.
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At this point, you could even say that the point of the theory is so obvious, it’s cliché—people talk about longing for the days of weird web design and personal sites and listservs all the time. Even Facebook employees say they miss the “old” internet.
Never heard of the “dead-internet theory” before, but as a lover of the “old” internet, I kind of get how this pretty far-out-there idea got its followers. At least it’s an entertaining, relatively little-threatening conspiracy theory.
theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/08/dead-internet-theory-wrong-but-feels-true/619937/
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more imagery created with the artificial intelligence Stable Diffusion: How painter William Turner –who lived about two hundred years ago in the era of romanticism– might’ve imagined a futuristic city like Night City from Cyberpunk 2077
filed under hyperlinks, articlesThere are no rules to blogging except this one: always self-host your website because your URL, your own private domain, is the most valuable thing you can own. Your career will thank you for it later and no-one can take it away.
I second everything addressed in this short plea for blogging (on your own domain) published by Robin –of course– on his personal blog; Take Care of Your Blog.
