I dunno I still kinda love it. In part I think it might sound a little dumb now thanks to how big money has turned the primary web interaction into “Schlorping at the Centralized World Trough.”
But web surfing is still a thing with the Indie Web, and it can still be an apt description because you can catch and ride “waves” of various networked pages and find really neat stuff. There was a sense of exploration to it, the whimsy that you could get carried really far from where you started and potentially have a lot of fun along the way.
Information superhighway
Surfing the world wide web. Sounds so dumb now.
I dunno I still kinda love it. In part I think it might sound a little dumb now thanks to how big money has turned the primary web interaction into “Schlorping at the Centralized World Trough.”
But web surfing is still a thing with the Indie Web, and it can still be an apt description because you can catch and ride “waves” of various networked pages and find really neat stuff. There was a sense of exploration to it, the whimsy that you could get carried really far from where you started and potentially have a lot of fun along the way.
I still like to surf the web. :)
You just described going down a Wikipedia hole too. Always a good way to procrastinate
We were so full of hope.
Have you seen a superhighway? It’s still accurate.
And the act of traveling on said highway was…surfing. For some reason. The 90’s were stupid, and I’m from there.
Now we sail the high seas.
Now it’s just a series of tubes
One could even call it… tubular
I love it when threads come together
It’s more like four tubes and then a whole bunch of tiny little hose pipes.
https://strategywiki.org/wiki/World_of_Goo/Chapter_4:_Information_Superhighway