yeah it was cool back then. but like everything online, profit motives drive idiotic changes
My mom told me never to click “I’m feeling lucky” because she thought it had something to do with porn because it’s a phrase people would say about sex.
That’s hilarious, especially when the the regular search button had almost zero filtering.
My mom was weirdly prudish in the '90s and early '00s, I don’t really know why. Like she wouldn’t let me watch Dexter’s Lab because she thought it was gross or something? Idk. Weird time.
Same here. She stormed into the room to make sure I wasn’t up to no good because she heard me say “hardcore” once.
Her reasoning: “hardcore is a kind of porn” lol
Yeah, enshittification.
Same way when Apple advertised itself as first calling itself “the computer for the rest of us” and now? Besides becoming a fashion label of sorts, absurdly expensive and difficult-to-fix computers.
become a monopoly by roleplaying as ethical and efficient
fuck your userbase because they don’t have nearly as good alternatives
OpenAI had the same playbook.
Don’tbe evilYeah, that’s how the internet worked out. Everything started out awesome to attract huge numbers of users, then slowly started collecting more and more of our data to use and sell while ramming in more and more ads.
Google (www.google.com) is a pure search engine - no weather, no news feed, no links to sponsors, no ads, no distractions, no portal litter. Nothing but a fast-loading search site. For now. Give it a decade.
Don’t Be Evil ☝️
Lemmy is better than Reddit.
For now.
“reward them with a visit” sent me over the edge
I remember using it back in the day because it was the only one fast enough for 54KB.
My how the turntables
