<story><title>I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/paabgg/i-bought-a-book-about-the-internet-from-1994-and-none-of-the-links-worked</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hawski</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m beginning to think that there is a niche for a peculiar kind of a search engine. A search engine for static almost-none to none JavaScript pages. It would penalize pages for ad-network usage.&lt;p&gt;I would really like to not have in search results most sites that try to monetize on my attention. I want raw facts and opinions. No click-bait to grab my attention or feed my internal cave man with rage. No ad-networks or data extraction operations. Just pages put there by people that want to share knowledge and ideas. I mostly find it on pages that lack ads and often are pure HTML - no CSS and no JS. At least in areas that interest me.&lt;p&gt;Maybe there is a place for a search engine that would index only pages like that? It certainly would be easier than competing with Google on indexing whole of the attention-whoring Internet.</text></item><item><author>addicted</author><text>Is it richer and deeper now?&lt;p&gt;Maybe at the fringes, but I feel that the internet today, with my emphasis being on the &amp;quot;inter&amp;quot; (different) &amp;quot;net&amp;quot; (networks) part of it, is far less deeper or richer than before. What we basically have reduced to are a bunch of siloed netowrks such as Facebook.&lt;p&gt;When I searched for something when Google first came out I got a mix of results from a variety of sites I had never heard about. Today it&amp;#x27;s basically Wikipedia at the top, with  results from the same list of about 3-4 sites depending on the topic of what I searched for.</text></item><item><author>CharlesDodgson</author><text>I miss the optimism of the early web, when you could create a simple web page, join a web ring and going online was an event.
It&amp;#x27;s richer and deeper now, but the rawness and simpleness of it all was enjoyable and novel.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bloaf</author><text>&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;millionshort.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;millionshort.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>I Bought a Book About the Internet from 1994 and None of the Links Worked</title><url>https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/paabgg/i-bought-a-book-about-the-internet-from-1994-and-none-of-the-links-worked</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>hawski</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m beginning to think that there is a niche for a peculiar kind of a search engine. A search engine for static almost-none to none JavaScript pages. It would penalize pages for ad-network usage.&lt;p&gt;I would really like to not have in search results most sites that try to monetize on my attention. I want raw facts and opinions. No click-bait to grab my attention or feed my internal cave man with rage. No ad-networks or data extraction operations. Just pages put there by people that want to share knowledge and ideas. I mostly find it on pages that lack ads and often are pure HTML - no CSS and no JS. At least in areas that interest me.&lt;p&gt;Maybe there is a place for a search engine that would index only pages like that? It certainly would be easier than competing with Google on indexing whole of the attention-whoring Internet.</text></item><item><author>addicted</author><text>Is it richer and deeper now?&lt;p&gt;Maybe at the fringes, but I feel that the internet today, with my emphasis being on the &amp;quot;inter&amp;quot; (different) &amp;quot;net&amp;quot; (networks) part of it, is far less deeper or richer than before. What we basically have reduced to are a bunch of siloed netowrks such as Facebook.&lt;p&gt;When I searched for something when Google first came out I got a mix of results from a variety of sites I had never heard about. Today it&amp;#x27;s basically Wikipedia at the top, with  results from the same list of about 3-4 sites depending on the topic of what I searched for.</text></item><item><author>CharlesDodgson</author><text>I miss the optimism of the early web, when you could create a simple web page, join a web ring and going online was an event.
It&amp;#x27;s richer and deeper now, but the rawness and simpleness of it all was enjoyable and novel.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>zilian</author><text>I had that feeling of discovering Internet again when I used tor and surfed hidden websites for the first time and read beginner&amp;#x27;s wikis, opinions pieces such as The Matrix, etc.</text></comment>