Does anyone "surf" the internet anymore...

>Remember to archive these sites when you find them. You never know if they'll be there tomorrow. If it's not on your local storage it doesn't exist. Also 3-2-1.
Even then, make secondary back ups. I lost 10 years of Jow Forums yesterday from a caddy mounted hard drive falling off my bed. Everything I'd saved from 2004-2014 is gone.

Cute but it actually means make backups, 3 is 2, 2 is 1, 1 is none.

>I feel like the average normalfag can get everything they want within a dozen websites.
There's a reason for that...

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A long time I, on a HDD that is now dead and gone, I was doing this with wikipedia articles that I liked most. Turns out some were altered, but those changes where never entered into the history of the article. Not like vandalism changes, but like entire flip-flopping of what was stated and removing science paper citations and everything. Like someone was paying them to allow it.

Another thing was when google and youtube change their searches so that what you search for before won't show up anymore, for whatever reason.

>Turns out some were altered, but those changes where never entered into the history of the article. Not like vandalism changes, but like entire flip-flopping of what was stated and removing science paper citations and everything.
Why am I not surprised anymore?

ikr reality is becoming an insidious crushing horror straight from every dystopian fiction in existence, like they were how-to guides

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I'm too scared I'll end up in weirdsville. I stick only to what I know.

How many different websites can you even name without looking at your bookmarks or history?
If be surprised if the average normalfag could even name more than like 30 websites.

>you read it first here
No one did faggot. That's one of the normiest opinions.

I cant wait till Im old as fuck and people say this regularly, shit will be so surreal

>Alright love you grandpa, dont forget to subscribe!
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>Does anyone "surf" the internet anymore? I feel like the average normalfag can get everything they want within a dozen websites.

Normalfags literally "surf" the Internet. Surfers only go to specific spots, never go far offshore, and don't dive very deep. But they do spend hours in the water.

I'm going to start doing this.

no

surfing Jow Forums and redit is still surfing the web

Surfing with armbands on.

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I thought it was: 3 copies, 2 places, 1 must always be offline.

Also, post neat sites.

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clickbait (and google breaking its own algorithm) killed surfing as an enjoyable pasttime

Content aggregators have made surfing the web pointless.

Yes, recently I've started to return to the way I used to do things back in '01-'05 when I was a kiddo. Every time I'm interested in a subject I type some related words in the address bar plus .com or .org to see where I end up, as a rule of thumb I no longer bookmark sites so if I forger a URL then that site might as well not exist for me.

>google breaking its own algorithm
This should be talked about more. I can't find anything good half of the time these days.

Honestly? The other day I wanted to Google what makes homeless people fall over and I kept getting links about how the homeless are underrepresented

Ffs I'm homeless and I fucking hate junkies.

Btw is it heroin that makes people do the slump over thing?

>is it heroin that makes people do the slump over thing?
I saw an episode of cops that said something like that, yeah.

Does web browsing terms and subjects brought up on specific chat services count?

Also, I do "surf" these boards as well as infinity chan and Lainchan.

nah surfing has been dead for about 10-15 years

People serf Facebook now

>Also, I do "surf" these boards as well as infinity chan and Lainchan.
If that fulfills the qualifier then I've been surfing all day.

based

I haven't since I left school. "Surf" was a safe term in school back when I was there. It was better than "playing" on the computer.

I blame reasonably fast, always-online broadband connections for that. Actual printed books with interesting websites disappeared around the same time you didn't have bother to make up your mind on how you were spending your dialup online time anymore.

Shit your right, I was tired.

Most of these sites will be so small that you could save all of them down without barely any impact of scale as the backups increased.

There used to be a website that ran from about 1995 to 2003 maybe 2004. I can never remember its name. It had a picture, a drawn illustration, of a wizard or alchemist on the first page and it had sections called either the zen of hacking or the tao of hacking.
It was a very weird and wonderful website. I spent years exploring that site and following the links. It introduced me to google hacking (google dorks) It led me to interesting information about hardware hacking software hacking. It showed me sites I never dreamt could exist. hactivist sites that very very few people knew about. Then one day the guy announced that he could no longer afford to keep the site and it would be going offline. That was when I stopped surfing and when google became merely a portal for MSM and large corporations and excluded such sites. It was the says of Altavista and astalavista. and now google is the great censor and there are no interesting sites any more

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I wonder how many ghost sites there are, sitting on some server somewhere, technically connected to the internet but totally unvisited by anyone.

Also those forums where you have one post about 6 years ago asking "does anyone still come here?" with the last post some years before that.

>It was the says of Altavista
the days of...

>this thread

youtube.com/watch?v=BGrfhsxxmdE

I was watching some anime video buy a reasonably-known guy where he said one of the worst parts of getting older is that it becomes harder and harder to find people who remember what you remember. Maybe the internet was a young man's game all along?

>Everything I'd saved from 2004-2014 is gone.
you fucked up good
at least it looks like you learned your lesson

young men just want to waggle their willy while they look at pictures

If it makes you feel better Jason Scott has said he has a total text archive from Jow Forums starting from about 4 months after it launched and said he'll post it once the site goes down.

wiby.me/
Just getting this out of the way.

but if 3=2, 2=1 and 1=0 then 3=0

Hey thanks for the name - what a blog that guy has got
ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2083
restores my faith it really does
Thanks

Check out his actual site (textfiles.com). You could spend a lifetime on there reading the files.

Nothing of value was lost.

All the time for porn. Fuck, porn has increased my searching capabilities tenfold.

what is wayback machine

>Another thing was when google and youtube change their searches so that what you search for before won't show up anymore, for whatever reason.
Oh that shit is out of control lately. It became most notable when infinity was de-listed from Google. That was the final point where most realised just how dangerous Google was.

kek
Reminds me of me as a 10 year old who said nigger once thinking it was non racial given "everybody said it in GTA san andreas" which I had just got.
You learn mistakes like that quickly though, especially when the only african american in school chimps at you for saying it and you're there going - wait it means WHAT?

I feel like the internet is a lot less fun than it used to be even 10 years ago, and not solely for nostalgia's sake.

Maybe I am just getting old, but I can't stand how fast the internet is now. Trends come and go by the day, and then are forgotten instantly. I remember lots of sites about shows, anime, and games that were years old still having regular traffic in the forums.

Here's a cute old site:
ikkoku.com/mi/

Also, a fun note from one of the text files:

What Did I Use to Write the Synopses?:
-------------------------------------
I'm somewhat old-fashioned. Just take a look at the specifications for
the computer that I started with and continue to use to write my
Guidebooks (both English and Esperanto):

- PC/XT computer running at 4.7 megahertz
- MS-DOS 3.30
- 640 KB of memory
- 20 meg hard drive
- 11" amber monochrome monitor
- one 5 1/4" floppy disk drive

Actually, it's less to do with my being old-fashioned, than with my
being too stingy to get a better computer.

Adjacent to my computer, on the left, is a 15" TV set, equipped with a
VHS VCR (quite handy for taking notes on an anime).

>Maybe I am just getting old, but I can't stand how fast the internet is now. Trends come and go by the day, and then are forgotten instantly.
Yeah, we've passed a point and now the ephemeral nature especially of places like Jow Forums is really detrimental. If you don't post your witty reply or retarded shoop within 30 minutes of the OP, you're too late. Same with discussions of course.

At least slower boards/imageboards are still kinda nice in that regard.

On a bigger scale, trends reach every corner way too fast, they don't have time to grow and mature naturally within a small community, and as a result it's more beneficial to produce content that spikes massively in interest instead of producing long lasting trends.

I disagree, you can still have decent discussions on threads chanwide, just don't count on anything becoming instantly viral unless it's a shitpost.

U wot... Shed probably blow you up.

Sounds comfy. I need to hookup my VCR to my PS3 so I can get some sweet 480i anime on it.

Sometimes I do. Go though my old bookmarks, check random sites, hit the "surprise" button in wiby.me etc.

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Sometimes I feel like just installing ProTracker and pretending the 90's never ended.

Who is she

should the proper way to enjoy the internet then be renamed to "diving the net" or something along those lines? maybe ignore the iConnotation and start going on safaris instead.

you are indeed an oldfag, as I am .
You hit the nail on the head. Back in 2003 until about 2006 or 2007 there was time to see op posted an image, make a couple of shoops of it, post them wait 30 minute3s and someone shooped your shoops. It created great lulz, it created a community. Now, all you get time to do is to post a witty one line reply

anyone remember smexi
installing video drivers in Linux with smexi?

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Weirdsville is the fun part though. You go there and gather the best of the weird and bring it back to familiar territory for discussion. It's how we got Timecube and Terry A. Davis.

as if that thing will be around forever

It also creates a lot of pressure to have to wait around and see how things progress, and get your witty reply in, rather than being able to have a small allotment of time per day to catch up.

CUTE

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And funny?

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Are there any decent forums left that haven't been cannibalized by reddit, that don't have a hard neoliberal/moralist slant?
Megumin's lickable nubile young body is not technology related content.

The wiki article on Tienanmen square comes off as a parody.

Wasn't 1 offsite? Offline is great too to prevent ransomware but offsite protects your data from natural disasters like fire too.

Don't be afraid of the unknown, user. Anything outside the grasp of mainstream social media should be supported and preserved.

Three sets of the running data. Two different locations, AND one copy of which is offline. So yeah, one should be offsite under the best of situations as this helps prevent regional issues or the occasional fire. Offline is to help with ransomware, malicious employees/friends, and n00bs on a keyboard. /bin/dd and /bin/rm say hello!

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StumbleUpon is unironically really good. Not sure if it still exists.

How do you save whole sites?
t.brainlet

>The wiki article on Tienanmen square comes off as a parody.

And that's one of the more famous topics, that has a lot of attention on it. The editing of more obscure articles involving China is really something to behold.

For instance:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banqiao_Dam

Clusterfuck of a disaster, in which the PRC government built a dam that was way under-designed regarding safety features. Railroaded the one engineer that dared to complain about it into exile out in the countryside. Rain happens, dam breaks and kills a horrific number of people.

Over time the article has gradually evolved into a "oh noes this disaster nobody could have predicted or done anything about randomly happened" kind of POV, while minimizing what they did to the engineer.

wget --mirror

It's getting to the point where we really can't trust anything at all online, even facts.

There's RPG Codex, but I only lurk there. They have some non-gaming boards that are not visible to non-members.

They were bought out by Mix. Not sure how good that is, but their signup page looks like typical Web 3.0 techbubble crap.

How do you surf the internet and find good content? I'm always gate kept by major forums and youtube.

Only if they all fail at the same time.

retarded faggot

Breadth is exchanged for depth now

fewer sites, much more content (shit) to sift through, at a much more rapid pace of new (worthless) content

Yeah. Your post is pretty silly.

>bookmarked web 1.0 site
>return to it
>domainforsale

Thank god for wayback at least, but it doesn't get everything sometimes