The failure of the Internet to deliver its promise is particularly noticeable when you hunt for repair manuals for a product from the 90s. Used to be, the information would either be there or not there, finable or unfindable.

Now, there are hundreds of algorithmically generated sites claiming to have it just because it appeared in their search logs, generating potemkin village content traps with endless paging, broken-thumbnail named-like-the-file-you-want but actually-just-ebay-photos bullshit

@eaton
It is sad that the utility of niche information is often eclisped by marketing material, I was hoping that 30 years later the internet could be more like a infinite library, but at times, it seams like only an eco-chamber for advertisers.