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{ **How to browse the web in the [age of shit](21st_century.md)?** Currently my "workflow" is following: I use the [badwolf](badwolf.md) browser (a super suckless, very fast from-scratch browser that allows turning JavaScript on/off, i.e. I mostly browse [small web](smol_internet.md) without JS but can still do banking etc.) with a **CUSTOM START PAGE** that I completely own and which only changes when I want it to -- this start page is just my own tiny HTML on my disk that has links to my favorite sites (which serves as my suckless "bookmark" system) AND a number of search bars for different search engines (Google, Duckduckgo, Yandex, wiby, Searx, marginalia, Right Dao, ...). This is important as nowadays you mustn't rely on Google or any other single search engine -- I just use whichever engine I deem best for my request at any given time. ~drummyfish }
An important part of the web is also searching its vast oceans of information with [search engines](search_engine.md) such as the infamous [Google](google.md) engine. Websites have human readable [url](url.md) addresses thanks to [DNS](dns.md).
An important part of the web is also searching its vast oceans of information with [search engines](search_engine.md) such as the infamous [Google](google.md) engine (as of 2024 still functioning technically but no longer practically). Websites have human readable [url](url.md) addresses thanks to [DNS](dns.md).
Mainstream web is now EXTREMELY [bloated](bloat.md), unusable and beyond saving, for more [suckless](suckless.md) alternatives see [gopher](gopher.md). See also [smol web](smol_internet.md).
Famous and big as it was, it's sad that mainstream web is now EXTREMELY [bloated](bloat.md) and **100% unusable**, beyond saving -- owing of course to [capitalism](capitalism.md). The murdering of web would be probably seen as one of the worst disasters of technological world in history, wasn't it for the fact that countless other disasters of similar magnitude are just happening constantly in [21st century](21st_century.md). The web is now like Chernobyl: a curious place to visit, however radioactive to such a high degree that you can't stay for too long else you acquire brain [cancer](cancer.md). For more [suckless](suckless.md) alternatives to web see [gopher](gopher.md). See also [smol web](smol_internet.md).
Prior to the tragedy of [mainstreamization](mainstream.md) the web used to be perhaps the greatest and most spectacular part of the whole Internet, the service that made Internet widespread, however it soon deteriorated by [capitalist](capitalism.md) interests, commercialization and subsequent invasion of idiots from real world; by this date, in 2020s, it is one of the most illustrative, depressing and also hilarious examples of [capitalist](capitalist_software.md) [bloat](bloat.md). A good article about the issue, called *The Website Obesity Crisis*, can be found at https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm. There used to be a tool for measuring website bloat (now dead) which worked like this: it computed the ratio of the page size to the size of its screenshot (e.g. [YouTube](youtube.md), as of writing this, scored 35.7).
Prior to the tragedy of [mainstreamization](mainstream.md) the web used to be perhaps the greatest and most spectacular part of the whole Internet, the service that made Internet widespread, however it soon deteriorated by [capitalist](capitalism.md) interests, commercialization and subsequent invasion of idiots from real world; by this date, in 2020s, it is one of the most illustrative, depressing and also hilarious examples of [capitalist](capitalist_software.md) [bloat](bloat.md). A good article about the issue, called *The Website Obesity Crisis*, can be found at https://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm. There used to be a tool for measuring website bloat (now ironically link rotted to some ad lol) which worked like this: it computed the ratio of the page size to the size of its screenshot (e.g. [YouTube](youtube.md), as of writing this, scored 35.7).
Currently there's a "vision" of so called **"[web 3](web3.md)"** which is supposed to be the "next iteration" of the web with new "[paradigms](paradigm.md)", making use of "[modern](modern.md)" (i.e. probably [shitty](shit.md)) technology such as [bloackchain](blockchain.md); they say web 3 wants to use [decentralization](decentralization.md) to prevent central control and possibly things like [censorship](censorship.md), however [we](lrs.md) can almost certainly guarantee web 3 will be yet exponentially amplified pile of [bloat](bloat.md), garbage and a worse dystopia than our nightmares were able to come up with so far, we simply have to leave this ship sink. If web 3 is what web 2.0 was to web 1.0, then indeed we are [doomed](doom.md). Our prediction is that web will simply lose its status of the biggest Internet service just as [Usenet](usenet.md) did, or like TV lost its status of the main audiovisual media; web will be replaced by something like akin "islands of franchised social media accessed through apps"; it will still be around but will be just a huge ad-littered swamp inferior to [teletext](teletext.md) where the elderly go to share pictures no one wants to see and where guys go to masturbate.
## How It Went To Shit
{ As of 2023 my 8GB RAM computer with multiple 2+ GHz CPUs has serious issues browsing the "modern" web, i.e. it is sweating on basically just displaying a formatted text, which if done right is quite comfortably possible to do on a computer with 100000 times lower hardware specs! In fact orders of magnitude weaker computers could browse the web much faster 20 years ago. Just think about how deeply fucked up this is: the world's foremost information highway and "marvel of technology" has been raped by capitalist soydevs so much that it is hundreds of thousands times less efficient than it should be, AND it wouldn't even require much effort to make it so. Imagine your car consuming 100000 litres of gasoline instead of 1 or your house leaking 99999 litres of water for any 1 litre of water you use. This is the absolute state of dystopian capitalist society. ~drummyfish }
{ As of 2023 my 8GB RAM computer with multiple 2+ GHz CPUs has serious issues browsing the "modern" web, i.e. it is sweating on basically just displaying a formatted text, which if done right is quite comfortably possible to do on a computer with 100000 times lower hardware specs! In fact orders of magnitude weaker computers could browse the web much faster 20 years ago. Just think about how deeply fucked up this is: the world's forefront information highway and "marvel of technology" has been raped by capitalist soydevs so much that it is hundreds of thousands times less efficient than it should be, AND it wouldn't even require much effort to make it work well -- in fact it is much easier to make it work well. Imagine your car consuming 100000 litres of gasoline instead of 1 or your house leaking 99999 litres of water for any 1 litre of water you use, plus you paying extra money for it to be so. This is the absolute state of dystopian capitalist society. ~drummyfish }
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{ Ah this pseudoimage above [made it to Encyclopedia Dramatica](https://encyclopediadramatica.top/index.php?title=Internets&oldid=4018#In_a_nutshell) :D Thank you kind stranger <3 ~drummyfish }
Back in the day (90s and early 2000s) web used to be a place of freedom working more or less in a decentralized manner, on the principles of [free speech](free_speech.md), [anarchism](anarchism.md) and, to the [Yankee](usa.md)'s dismay, even [communism](communism.md) --⁠ people used to run their own unique, non-commercial websites where they shared freely and openly, [censorship](censorship.md) was difficult to implement, unwelcome and therefore mostly non-existent and websites used to have a way better design, they were [KISS](kiss.md), lightweight, safer, "open" (no paywalls, registration walls, country blocks, [DRM](drm.md), ...), MUCH faster and more robust as they were pure [HTML](html.md) documents, without scripts, "[apps](app.md)", jumpscare [ads](marketing.md) -- simply without [bullshit](bullshit.md). It was also the case that most websites were truly nice, useful and each one had a "soul" as they were usually made by passionate nerds who had a creative freedom and true desires to create a good website (and this still continued for a while after the invasion of businesses, i.e. commercial sites were still pretty bearable).
Back in the day (90s and early 2000s) web used to be a place of [freedom](freedom.md) working more or less in a decentralized manner, on the principles of [free speech](free_speech.md), [anarchism](anarchism.md) and, to the [Yankee](usa.md)'s dismay, even [communism](communism.md) --⁠ people used to run their own unique, non-commercial websites where they shared freely and openly, [censorship](censorship.md) was difficult to implement, unwelcome and therefore mostly non-existent and websites used to have a way better design, they were [KISS](kiss.md), lightweight, safer, "open" (no paywalls, registration walls, country blocks, [DRM](drm.md), ...), MUCH faster and more robust as they were pure [HTML](html.md) documents, without scripts, "[apps](app.md)", jumpscare [ads](marketing.md) -- simply without [bullshit](bullshit.md). It was also the case that most websites were truly nice, useful and each one had a "soul" as they were usually made by passionate nerds who had a creative freedom and true desires to create a good website (and this still continued for a while after the invasion of businesses, i.e. commercial sites were still pretty bearable).
As the time marched on web used to stink more and more of [shit](shit.md), as is the fate of everything touched by the [capitalist](capitalist_software.md) hand -- the advent of so called **web 2.0** brought about a lot of [complexity](complexity.md), websites started to incorporate and push client-side scripts ([JavaScript](javascript.md), [Flash](flash.md), [Java](java.md) applets, ...) which led to many negative things such as incompatibility with browsers (kickstarting browser [consumerism](consumerism.md) and [update culture](update_culture.md)), performance loss and security vulnerabilities (web pages now became programs rather than mere documents) and more complexity in web browsers, which leads to immense [bloat](bloat.md) and browser [monopolies](bloat_monopoly.md) (higher effort is needed to develop a browser, making it a privilege of those who can afford it, and those can subsequently dictate de-facto standards that further strengthen their monopolies). Another disaster came with **[social networks](social_network.md)** in mid 2000s, most notably [Facebook](facebook.md) but also [YouTube](youtube.md), [Twitter](twitter.md) and others, which centralized the web and rid people of control. Out of comfort people stopped creating and hosting own websites and rather created a page on Facebook. This gave the power to corporations and allowed **mass-surveillance**, **mass-censorship** and **propaganda brainwashing**. As the web became more and more popular, corporations and governments started to take more control over it, creating technologies and laws to make it less free. By 2020, the good old web is but a memory and a hobby of a few boomers, everything is controlled by corporations, infected with billions of unbearable ads, [DRM](drm.md), malware (trackers, [crypto](crypto.md) miners, ...), there exist no good web browsers, web pages now REQUIRE JavaScript even if it's not needed in principle due to which they are painfully slow and buggy, there are restrictive laws and censorship and de-facto laws (site policies) put in place by corporations controlling the web. Official web standards, libraries and frameweworks got into such an unbelievably bloated, complicated, corrupted and degenerated state (look up e.g. [Shadow DOM](shadow_dom.md)) that one cannot but stare in astonishment about the stupidity.