


the old web was marked by:
personalization
long-form expression
self-expression
an emphasis on anonymity
individualism.
personalization
long-form expression
self-expression
an emphasis on anonymity
individualism.
the new web is marked by:
standardization
short-form expression
self-perception
an emphasis on 'building your brand'
in, short, capitalism.
standardization
short-form expression
self-perception
an emphasis on 'building your brand'
in, short, capitalism.

Where is the variety? The authenticity?

I wrote a blog post identifying the issue in-depth.






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- Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
- The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
- 404 Page Not Found: The Internet Feeds on its Own Dying Dreams
- Losing the Internet You Grew Up With
- Make Front-End Shit Again
- 2015 is the year the old internet finally died
- Bring Fansites Back to the Web
- The Decade the Internet Lost its Joy
- How to Bring Back Old Internet
- How SEO is Gentrifying the Internet
- The Weird Web
- An archived "Indie Web Manifesto" from 1997
- I Don’t Know How to Waste Time on the Internet Anymore
- Web design is now completely boring
- Do you ever miss the old web?
- Rediscovering the Old Web
- A Handmade Web
- Making the Web Fun Again
- My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?
- How Web 2.0 Killed the Internet
- The Internet is an SEO Landfill
- How Blogs Broke the Web
- The Web We Lost
- Alternative to the Corporate Web
- Reviving Ye Olde Personal Home Page
- Why we all need to make the internet fun again
- Maybe isolation can make the internet fun again
- What happened to the ‘old internet’? We used to have so much variety and choice – it’s all collapsed, or has it?