AnchorDesk Lounge: POLL: What do you miss most about the pre-WWW Internet?

The web the way it should be....

I used to enjoy going on the web, seeing new ideas, discussing these ideas with others on ICQ....but everything has gotten to be a giant misleading pop-up ad, that destroys what the web was really meant for - COMMUNICATION!! I wish the ad people would STOP trying to control my web experience, and go away, this is not progress, it is destructive communication, just so they can tell us what to buy when....

The lack of commercialization

I don't miss the days of needing to install a winsock or using unix in a non graphic mode. I don't miss needing an array of tools and needing to figure out which to use for what.

I do miss the excitement of the early days of the web, and watching new technologies grow in ways that were actually helpful. I do miss the days when spam was a lunch meat.

And I do miss the days of writing my own tools to use things such as MIME, and knowing that as long as I follow the RFC, my tools will work. I miss the days when the Internet was not driven by commercial interests, but by open standards.

It may be more convenient to just open up your email and see graphics and text and hyperlinks, instead of seeing incomprehensible characters that must be saved to disk and fed through a program. But the downside of the current ease of use is the invasion of the non-techie, including a lot of people spewing ignorance about any subject imaginable.

It's not that I'm against people with little technical knowledge, but it's those with no knowledge at all who became pervasive.

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by SantiagoCrespo  - 7/28/05 6:23 AM