Chris Klugewicz
Damiano GerliI'll take "things that didn't age well" for 500$
MrPineapple@damianogerli ahh memories.
Dilman Dila@damianogerli Ah.... I remember "I'm feeling lucky"
Michelle@damianogerli lololol... Aww damn, miss the old internet... I miss the hand crafted shitty fan websites hosted on strangers home servers... It was so fun and new
@linuxduck we didn't know it then but Geocities was peak internet
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EndlessMason@damianogerli @linuxduck you can still hand craft a shitty web0.8 website - you just have to pay the other 4 websites to show it to people
@EndlessMason @damianogerli I mean honestly when I am bored I just right a straight shitty html website but you know what I miss figuring out most? iFrames. Yeah... I said it.
@linuxduck @damianogerli there are still iframes. they're mostly used for ads.
Thyme@linuxduck @EndlessMason @damianogerli iFrames are the best! In one of my web extensions, I accidentally inserted into the iFrames too. It was bananas. π #walking #car
Beko Pharm (deprecated)@EndlessMason @damianogerli @linuxduck this π©
I even re-uploaded some of my older websites. Just for nostalgia.
So you like frames? π€ Here is one: https://2003.maxthegame.de/
Santiago Lema 
@damianogerli @BlackAzizAnansi Reward them with a visit and donβt ask how they could pay for all the hardware, bandwidth and engineering to bring all this for free to you.
EstherJones@damianogerli
"Don't be evil."
"Don't be evil."
jtonline@esther @damianogerli that was the first clue, hiding in plain sight!
Nebulous Menace (Sandy B.)@damianogerli *nods angrily* I may add this to my "Things I say a lot" list, but the two founders still have 51% of the voting shares in Google. Page and Brin could stop this at any time.
Lotβ΄βΉ@damianogerli Lol: "portal litter" sounds like something you put in the cat box.
Blake Leonard@12thRITS @damianogerli observe this quick and dirty photoshop i was inspired to do
Lawler Hix 
@damianogerli remember when their motto was "Don't be evil"?
@lawlznet Pepperidge Farms prefers to forget
kira :3@damianogerli i no longer wish to reward them
@chrisisgr8 me neither
Rusty Broadsword π³οΈβπ
Caroline:heart_bi:@damianogerli I miss when google was actually goodβ¦
Alan Martello@damianogerli @EricLawton Itβs the venture capitalist roadmap (Facebook, Google, Uber, etc etc etc):
Start off being cheap/free
Get lots of users
Use number of users to go public
Use money from going public to subsidize getting more users longer
Try to become a monopoly, settle for oligopoly
Degrade the user experience / increase user costs
Assume 20% users will leave
Take money from the 80% who are left all day long.
Michael@amart @damianogerli @EricLawton Corey Doctorow (@pluralistic) has coined βenshittificationβ for this lifecycle where benefits first flow from VC to consumer then VC to advertiser (or other counterparty) then from everyone back to VC by locking in users then making the service as bad as possible without pushing them away.
Mark Crocker@damianogerli yep, I used to be a big fan of #Google when they were still being hosted at Stanford and had a URL with a .edu TLD.
Last week, I did a #GoogleSearch for the first time in many months, and didn't get any better results than #DuckDuckGo or #StartPage , so I still can't find that old article on using #Ansible inside a #Dockerfile in an unobtrusive way π
Tonya Canning@mcrocker @damianogerli I remember learning about the new, cool search engine Google in a print copy of PC Magazine. Those were the days.
Ruth Mottram@mcrocker @damianogerli try kagi search. It's *incredible* like the old days when Google really worked...
@Ruth_Mottram @damianogerli https://kagi.com/ #search seams like they have an interesting approach. Perhaps a paid search service has incentives more aligned with user needs?
@mcrocker @damianogerli yeah I would hope so! I like their results so far. Contemplating putting the family on it too.
m0xEE@mcrocker It's better than Tineye for image searches at times β probably the only thing Google is good for nowadays π€·
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Aethelstan@damianogerli bring back Alta-vista!
@Aethelstan where's Jeeves
Lorry@Aethelstan @damianogerli I still have my AltaVista mousemat :)
Karl Habermas@damianogerli I had so much fun with Alta Vista. It almost made up for the stagnation of Gopher.
Kevin Karhan 
@damianogerli well, if you want that same experience: Consider http://frogfind.com by @ActionRetro ...
It literally works with everything!
@kkarhan @ActionRetro that's one very plain experience for sure, it might also work on a Commodore 64
THIS ACCOUNT HAS MOVED@damianogerli anybody remember excite? It was between alta vista and Google and was great for tiny web
@noplasticshower my gender is Jeeves
@damianogerli never grew to like that one
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David Brent π@hutchinsonmini @noplasticshower @damianogerli I had links to Excite and Lycos on the website I created for a class in college. Those were the days!
Julie Smith@damianogerli started innocuously... ended insidiously π₯΄π€£π
ocdtrekkie@damianogerli If only we could once again be as blissfully naive and stupid as we were in 1999.
@ocdtrekkie when there is little money to be made, evil is not as strong
tim@damianogerli "Don't be evil" π€¦π»ββοΈ
marty@damianogerli OMFG I LITERALLY TALKED ABOUT THIS EXACT IMAGE LIKE 2 DAYS AGO
I always love seeing this image and then just proceed to cry because of it.
But now I bookmarked it so I will never lose this beautiful piece of tech optimism of ye olden times again.
natriumchloride@damianogerli hahah you either die a hero... etc...
Michael Dexter@damianogerli
I'm feeling unlucky.
I'm feeling unlucky.
Christoph@damianogerli I think there are some things in the original google paper which also didn't age well.
http://infolab.stanford.edu/pub/papers/google.pdf
For example the section about "Advertising and Mixed Motives" with quotes like "The goals of
the advertising business model do not always correspond to providing quality search to users" or "[...] we believe the issue of advertising causes enough mixed incentives that it is crucial to have a
competitive search engine that is transparent and in the academic realm."
Tiesa Meskis@damianogerli those were the days
Alen@damianogerli DuckDuckGo is great, tbh
Fahri Reza π@damianogerli venture capital honeymoon period?
Raphael@damianogerli It's sad to think that that claim apparently used to be true.