The Boring Internet

I thought it was a cool essay because I've been using Gemini (the one mentioned in the article, not Google) in my terminal browser lately. And it has been a lot of fun!

But yes the whole "re-explain by negation" writing style does come across as AI-generated.

Alternative readable rendering: https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet/ascii

Great topic and message. But the AI-generated writing really gets under my skin. It's not painful. Not unclear. Just really annoying.

The Internet I grew up on was not the web. It was mail, newsgroups, IRC… maybe the article talks about that, but I don’t care as this is nothing the web can kill in any way.

Not sure. Without commercialization and ads, there might not be the free high-quality web apps from Google. Things have two sides. But the complexity of the internet should have far surpassed the level that even large corps could influence, and therefore, the key might be culture instead of tech.

I find this website really hard to read, even in ASCII.

I mean he's right, the old internet and the technology that underlies it still exists, and there's nothing stopping you from building and using sites that work independently of the big social media platforms/centralised services.

That said, I do wish this essay was a bit better contrast wise. Had to highlight some of the tables to read them at all, which isn't exactly ideal.

Fade scroll, hard pass.

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Interesting