i think cooking and recipes are the sentinel species for how shitty tech is. they are ideal for the internet as envisioned: relatively easy to share or create, useful information, but lots of interesting problems about how to archive and search.
reality: your phone browser crashes from having to load a million ads while you scroll past lots of paragraphs of extraneous text, and the most popular recipe is a ragebait short form video where they put marshmallows in a pasta or something.
some poor fool in the mid 90s: "we could digitize everybody's family cookbooks and preserve all of that history and find ways for expat communities to find connections and recreate the flavors of home, even thousands of miles away"
food internet today: youtube short called "i finally tried the viral cheese sensation" where, after three unskippable ads, a generative AI voiceover meant to sound like peter griffin narrates somebody pulling apart a mozzarella-filled tater tot
*snaps fingers* marshmallows are perfectly sliced and toasted a light golden brown
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