> Can you think of a picture of yourself on the internet from before 2010, other than your old Facebook photos?
Nah, because I never felt compelled to put pictures of myself on the Internet before then. I still don't.
What I miss is the personal website, where people shared information and opinions about things they loved. That Web has been crowded out by, well, people posting pictures of themselves.
It's like that point in the party where the stimulating conversation ends because the host decided it's time to break out the slide projector.
I think the advance of mobile phones and the cool factor that surrounded it for a long time, and “Hey look at this picture of my coffee I am drinking right now” kind of drowned the blogosphere. It was the time Facebook could count on being cool. Which evaporated after 2010/2012.
I think my personal take is that the idea of “your content is your own” got lost in the process of sharing-everything culture.
Luckily it isn’t dead, this site and the people writing informative blogs is still available.
Even blogs feel a little bit stilted to me. They encourage a certain way of organizing things that is useful for RSS syndication, but at the cost of placing some fairly tight editorial limits on the person running the site.
What I really miss is what came before the blogosphere really took off: Geocities-style loosely organized collections of static pages.
It’s a xml format spec. It holds the latest posts in a convenient way which a rss reader can sub to. It kind of went away unfortunately, it was pretty handy.
Nowadays we have influencers on instagram showing their selfiesticked or quadcoptered adventures in HDR, which is then multiplied by mass media, or at least attempted to.
The thing is, i know a few places which get instagrammed a lot, and they almost never look the way i see them when i'm there, no matter which weather or daytime. It's not exactly fake, but photoshopped, enhanced into something entirely different, almost.
It's like the serving suggestion for instant/convenince/fast food which has nothing to do with reality.
Good points. I think because it was so new, and the last decade could be called the decade of the phone and the (social) app. Hopefully it will transform into something better, more meaningful. We as developers have a big role to play. Strike a better balance between privacy and public sharing, between what is your own vs selling yourself out as a product.
Nah, because I never felt compelled to put pictures of myself on the Internet before then. I still don't.
What I miss is the personal website, where people shared information and opinions about things they loved. That Web has been crowded out by, well, people posting pictures of themselves.
It's like that point in the party where the stimulating conversation ends because the host decided it's time to break out the slide projector.