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It’s Time To Go Back to Web 1.0
(discuss.tchncs.de)
Invasive tracking and pay-for-play search engines has broken the internet. It’s time to reclaim our independence with the Small Web.
Who is "we"?
Technoactivists can't even get people to use free software when it works and there's like five of us over here in AP land.
Who is out there willing to create a movement to go back to navigating an page index or a webring? In what universe? Multiple governments freaked out about TikTok because the data was going to the bad spies they didn't like and they STILL couldn't get people off TikTok and into anywhere else.
I mean, if you have a time machine I'd happily blow up Skynet and tell 90s communication scholars that they were right about every single thing they were saying about search engines and algorithmic content, but that genie got out of the bottle, regained his freedom from the kindly street rat-turned-prince with his third wish and is halfway through Disney World by now.
Hey I'd love to read sone of those 90s scholars you're talking about. Any suggestions?
I wasn't around back then, but people like Oscar Gandy and Dan Schiller were open critics of personal data and centralization. Maybe that gives you a good lead.