HishamTIL the WWW originally had a logo, and nothing else is better at expressing the naive academic techno-optimism from the 1990s than a design that looks hand-coded in PostScript and that slogan at the top.
FiXato@hisham_hm maybe a constant reminder of that slogan would've kept us from drifting towards "Let's collect what we know about you."
@FiXato today's motto of the web is pretty much "Let's Share What We Know [About You To Our Advertising Partners]"
(now with a subtitle "Accept All, Refuse All, Customize", thanks to the EU)
@hisham_hm
"Accept All, Refuse All (*), Customise
(*) except 'legitimate' interests; we still want you to manually object to each of them hidden underneath each heading."
jim68000@FiXato @hisham_hm and now post ChatGPT “let’s fill up the rest with stuff we don’t really know”