I should have mentioned Wikipedia because I use it quite often. I contribute money every year because I feel it provides a valuable service to humanity. People like to make fun of Wikipedia or trash it but as a quick layman's reference I find it indispensable. I think of it like an old school encyclopedia. It gives a brief summary of a topic which can serve as a springboard for a deeper, more nuanced examination if need be. Just like in the pre-Internet days when I was a kid, I would use our home encyclopedia as a quick reference but visit the library if I needed a deep diveDidn’t you get the memo? The Web is dead.
I don’t usually look at social media on the browser. The Pub is the only one I check almost every day. I do refer to Serious Eats and to Wikipedia very often,
Sounds similar to myself Mad Hatter. I was on the net way too much in my 20s and wasting my time with garbage forums were people would argue with a brick for being red. I began to gradually decrease this over time especially since having kids. However in the last three years being here made me realise this was the only place I enjoyed and actually learned from and heard useful new stuff. So I just shut off everything else and have a Python script scrapping youtube videos from Jackson Crawford that I watch every two weeks. I'll occasionally go to the arxiv or through my old university login for academic stuff.
Once you're in it, there's no leaving.
You can barely bat an eyebrow without being threatened with a ban.
Nobby-W for dragging me here in the first place to play in his Scum and Villainy campaign.
Truly the chillest place on the internet. It reminds me of my city's pre-internet BBS scene.
I don't spend as much time in my shop as I should, it is easier to watch a video on running a lathe than to actually do it and it is all the way down in the basement.
It's bigger I'm just interested in less of it because people on the internet are asshats.
I remember those days too because I worked on the software that turned all those random urls into advertising websites. Very lucrative for a while. As a joke we made one that contained only one link in the whole page that didn't go to a separate ad page. The legal page. We made sure to put banner ads in though so it wouldn't be a total loss.
That last bit is becoming less and less true. I think newer sites favor the mobile experience over the old fashioned html method.
Was this it?
Now you have my interest. What was the Byrne Robotics forum and what was the Objectivist takeover?
