Internet was our escape before normal people invaded it.
The internet, though not our escape, still contains our escape. The problem is..
The internet used to be enclosed by a wall of technicality, which only the informaticists, intelligent persons who could and would try to learn to use enter the zone, and technicians, could penetrate. Even persons accessing the zone via their relations to сталкерs had to become technicians. Intelligent persons don't waste their time playing сталкер. Even the first time, most would be paid сталкер rates. Only wealthy idiots could afford that. They were, still are, and will always be, few. Now, that wall of technicality, though still extant, is impotent, because the job of the 'stalker' has been automated. Everyone and their grandmother has a pocket сталкер.
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Don't so hastily blame it all on the obvious pernacity. Some gratis-software communities have a perverse ""advocacy"" policy, to be extremely stupid-friendly. It's understandable why one would want one's product to be user-friendly, hell, even luser-friendly. But ones community? Ones garden of intelligence stayed by walls of technicality necessary to efficient innovation? Why would they think it's a good idea to make the software developement luser-friendly?
Had such gratis-software communities not been so damn popular (and, of course they would be so damn popular: idiots abound, and everyone and their grandmother is attracted to profit, which gratis-software tends to (not explicitly, of course) promise), we would have at least had our gratis-software communities. At least we have some gratis-softwre communities that didn't erode their intelligence. Fitting how they call their free software merely "open-source".
And of course, we must rememeber,
simple websites like this
never
ruled the web.
Intelligent people, did. Now, instead of smart people, we have smart devices.
When they finally lock the last person out of all his web accounts, they win. We probably won't lose, because we'll have, by then, invented another, better system, and everyone, gradually, will assimilate themselves into that system. Let's not let that happen.
I don't want to go back in time, but I want the internet of the past to return.
Вперёд в прошдое, indeed. But don't confuse the parts of it that were really good, for their cause, which was really bad.
Fuck all these bland """modern""" website designs.
All hail this bland modernist website design, instead.