Email may not have throttled you but your 9600 baud modem sure did.
this post was submitted on 29 May 2025
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"email" also might not throttle you, but every single (actual) mail server on earth will haha
The Internet was once called "the Wild West" when lack of scrutiny was enabling all kinds of things like rampant copyright infringement and thinly veiled pedophilia (see "lolita"). As in the actual wild west, pioneers were inventing new tools to survive and thrive. Brief periods like this are probably normal before entrenched players - whether they're railroads or media giants - roll in and lay down an organizational layer that makes it a lot easier for typical people to participate. In doing so they also tell the government how to regulate the new world to make sure their profit models still work. Then they take credit for the whole thing.
...it's been the frontier of human condition for as long as we've wrought civilisation from the wild; always ephemeral; always pollinating, seeding anew, and burgeoning along the fresh meadowlands of social intercourse...
Pretty sure podcasts “tracked" you RSS usage since there's an entire analytics industry around podcasts driven through RSS but you agree with the sentiment.
I recently set up freshrss and have been digging it. It's not perfect, but definitely as good as Google reader was.
rss2email is great also... simple concept- run the program as a scheduled task, it checks for any updated css feeds, then sends you an email with the new ones.
I still is if you avoid the dumbassery of social media.
I miss vBulletin boards.
Bring back Livejournal. It was free therapy and you could be your messy self.
Guess I'm the only old-school ThrottleMail user who used to follow The Dopamine Fiend on Xanga.
I was there when the internet was bastardized.
It was like watching Rome fall.
None of the things listed have disappeared. Rome didn't fall, it's still alive and well, we are just in city nearby with some people complaining that it's not like Rome.
What kind of pages get indexed?
Pages must be simple in design. Simple HTML, non-commerical sites are preferred. Pages should not use much scripts/css for cosmetic effect.
Where do you find cool blogs? I run a blog myself, and have come across a few cool ones, but is there a place where people promote their blogs and where I can find blogs I might like?
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It was just the first taste of a sweet poison.
The new Internet is shitty. Like dirty meth.