Cassandra is only carbon nowApr 25, 2023
There's been a lot of spilled pixels, but I guess all-in-all, I just want the Internet — the Web, especially — back. I want "app" to mean "application," not "platform." I want links, not embeds. I want writing, art, and code to flourish, not "content." I want 10 MB on my janky little ISP to call my own, not "cloud-scale." I want to copy and paste my own stuff, not "export" it. I want one-off cgi-bin weirdnesses, not monolithic frameworks.
Show threadCassandra is only carbon nowApr 25, 2023
Yeah, that's romanticizing the past, which is problematic af. The Web was never truly for everyone, and that really fucking sucks. I can't help but feel like, though, we've replaced a Web that didn't include enough people with some nameless web-scale thing that doesn't include anyone.
Show threadBen Evans

@xgranade The Internet of the mid-late 90s that I remember most definitely did not include everyone.

But I, and others, had a sense that it could do - that there was a future version of it that was capable of being for everyone. It is that future, that possibility, that I really miss.

Apr 26, 2023 at 8:55amWeb