The dumbing down of the Internet...

[cheeni]

For example, whatever's happened to Slashdot these days? This is not the first time I'm making my disgust for the 'new' slashdot plainly known, but yes, I still do care, because /. was a geek institution once upon a time. For that matter, 'the Internet' was a geek institution once upon a time...

There are just so few geek institutions left, unless of course you want to lurk around Lisp blogs and SGI forums *wink*. Where's the common geek meeting ground these days?

Every time I come across a webpage plastered with "Welcome Slashdotters, we hope you enjoy your visit", I get an uncanny sense of deja-vu, the closest memory being of waking up blinking at 3 AM and staring at the bright lights of a highway convenience store blaring "Welcome Greyhounders, we hope you enjoy your visit"...

*sigh*

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TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN' .....

[(Anonymous)]

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Re: TIMES THEY ARE A-CHANGIN' .....

[sidcarter.livejournal.com]

:))


BTW, dude ...what's with the sudden surge in updates ? /:)

[notanangel78.livejournal.com]

After "For Example" i didn't understand anything! Your posts remind me that I should be doing those online tech courses to appear less clueless!:))
*runs to do a course on programming*

[crabbycool.livejournal.com]

no no, i understood this bit also- *sigh*

:P

[notanangel78.livejournal.com]

Yeah, i think I understand "sigh" too..unless it's some tech-equivalent of something!:D

[sidcarter.livejournal.com]

what about *wink* ? *wink*

[crabbycool.livejournal.com]

*wink*! naturally. but i didn't want to come across as a show-off. but now that you ask, i also understood lisp, slash and dot (preferably not as symbols plz). ha!

[thaths.livejournal.com]

Long answer: Heh! The Internets are not dumbing down, cheeni. It is because you and I are growing older (yesterday I found that some 3% of my stubble is grey!) and wiser. Life has removed the nice reality-hiding shades we used to wear back in the day. We are less enthusiastic and gushing reading the posts on /. and the enthusiastic and gushing posts by others appears to us as naive.

Short answer: The intelligence has moved from /. to digg.com

[karbak.livejournal.com]

*wink*