josef

the ""what about the sites you love"" argument against ad-blocking is bizarre. there aren't any sites that i love. they could all go away tbh. name me a single website which has ads and is good? see you can't. when everybody has ad blockers we'll be left with only the good sites!

the truth is this when i visit a website with ad-blocker turned on its because i am actively trying to destroy that website!!!!!!!!

Nov 30, 2016 at 2:27amWeb
Show threadjosefNov 30, 2016
""but what about youtube and twitter and etc"" yeah before those we just went on GameFAQs and stuff and played N64, it was fine. the internet was culturally much better when it was just all people who worked in real, non-tech jobs making their own websites as a hobby
Show threadjosefNov 30, 2016
the internet was better when most of the pictures on it originated in a NewTek Video Toaster
Show threadZeetherNov 30, 2016
@jk I wish emulating that was possible but Amiga emulation is a hassle as is
Show threadjosefNov 30, 2016
@Zeether i have an amiga 500 somewhere, does that work with the video toaster? probably not
Show threadZeetherNov 30, 2016
@jk nah I think 4000s used it or something
Show threadjosefNov 30, 2016
@Zeether goddamn who can afford that!!
Show threadYozApr 27, 2022
@jk my Internet, which is a better internet, consists entirely of Babylon 5 videos and pictures of King Tut
Show threadAllusionApr 27, 2022
@yoz @jk Oof, just got some nostalia for the days when pictures of King Tut's mask were, like, the height of computer graphics.
Show thread[Moved] PolychromeApr 27, 2022

@jk "the sites I love" are all self or volunteer ran niche things.

I only use YouTube because people keep linking to it. ​

Show threadnatasha dawn excelsiaNov 30, 2016
@jk yo i seriously fucking agree with this so hard & i also think is a big reason why this site specifically is so much more appealing to me than other SNs
Show threadjosefNov 30, 2016
~@tronmaximum there was this kinda, otherworldly, maybe even natural? organicness? to quite a lot of the web 15+ years ago, because so many sites didn't have a purpose. they didn't try to promote themselves to you, they weren't for-profit, they weren't pushing any kind of agenda, they just 'were', like a rock or a tree. you'd encounter them whilst exploring and it actually felt like it meant something
Show threadMickey's House of LeavesFeb 4, 2019

@jk "what about youtube"

buddy back in my day (when i was like 8) we went to homestar runner and straight up ENGAGED with HYPERMEDIA like god intended

imo pushing everything into static, non-interactive video on youtube was a painful downgrade

Show threadjosefFeb 4, 2019
@polymur games !! downloads!!
Show threadMickey's House of LeavesFeb 4, 2019

@jk at least one person has made a program that does keyframe animation for html5 and i'm really surprised no one has played around with that more

fuck, let's bring back animutations

Show thread[Moved] PolychromeApr 27, 2022
@polymur @jk tell me more about that magical software
Show threadmDuo13 📖Jun 29, 2023
@polymur @jk I'm like mostly agreed with you but man I would miss someone being like, "look up this song by that artist" and 99% of the time if I search YouTube I can listen to that song, usually the whole thing, to know what they're talking about. That was definitely NOT there in the good old age of webrings and guestbooks and animated "under construction" gifs
Show threadצבי הנינג'ה عزيز النينجاApr 27, 2022
@jk If you really understand what the internet was supposed to be, you probably sound like Statler and Waldorf to the rest of society
Show threadekvinApr 27, 2022

@jk

I remember the days when the internet still had infinite promise.
https://zombo.com/

Zombo.com - No Limits - You Can Do Anything

Zombo.com where you can do anything. Zombocom has no limits. Zombo is unlimited.

Show thread🌿Mouse-Friend🌿Jul 30, 2024
@jk The internet peaked at web 1.0.
We said what we said.
Show threadjamesNov 30, 2016
@jk love sites not people
Show thread[Moved] PolychromeAug 11, 2018
@jk the sites I love don't have ads.
Show threadRick WardAug 11, 2018
@jk ...metafilter.com
Show thread_&Oct 11, 2018
@jk I wonder if I can set up a bot to do this without DDSing .
Show threadraffitzApr 27, 2022
@jk
What kind of capitalist brainwashing have people been put through that they think it's their moral obligation to watch ads?! Block all the ads, and if the site cannot survive like that, then it shouldn't survive like that.
Show threadInternet Hedgehog 🦔Jul 30, 2024
@jk not true. i paid 5 bucks once for a banner on my favorite web forum once and it was 100% worth it.