THE SHRINKING INTERNET
You may have noticed this.....
We think we can find anything on the internet? Erm….. NO! Not any more!
Truthstream Media is on my YouTube subscriber list and I clicked for all notifications years ago. Do I get notifications? Erm…. NO! Not any more!
How about you?
Do you still find the information you seek? What about sites you have previously visited and bookmarked? Are they still available? I have found that my Malwarebytes protection warns me that the site could be infected with a Trojan or whatever! Then I cannot get past the block!
As Melissa points out in her video, we are in the Truman Show and there is now a cyber wall around us.
When was the last time anyone heard the term Net Neutrality? It disappeared about the same time this phenomenon metastasized.
Your timing is impeccable. Omg. This past week had me cursing the net out loud that “I can’t find anything anymore!”
In recent instances I was looking for benign technical discussions that were the type of thing that populated the net in the past: forum pages, with a moderator who set them up. Vast insider tricks of the trade. They’ve virtually disappeared from every search engine, replaced with “Strictly Commercial” let me sell you a new (overpriced) thing crap. Many websites, yes, but many of them saying the exact same thing verbatim.
Around 2012 was perhaps Peak Internet as far as I can tell. The amount of info that found it’s way there was vast but as yet corporate.gov NGOish influence was not yet able to smother the rest.
I miss stumbling across the utterly interesting, eccentric, and insightful characters who found their voices on internet 1.0.
noticeably different from a few years ago and if the info you are researching is still out there you have to jump through hoops and be pretty on it and clever to find what your looking for. Respect &x 2 All. Dave