What do you miss from the old internet?

_number8_@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world – 260 points –

i think we need Cracked-style articles back. desperately. or like, a guy doing a weird thing and writing a piece on it. sites like those are declining faster than the glaciers.

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I can read and skim documents for salient details at 500 - 800 words per minute.

And then someone links me to a twelve minute video on YouTube where 800 words are spoken in total , 300 of those words are "um,so", and all we're looking at is either the narrator , or possibly a static slide with a few paragraphs on it... and also an inset of the narrator, narrating.

You also can't ctrl-f a video. It's by far the worst format for information.

And in terms of actual information per kilobyte, itโ€™s often absolutely laughable compared to text.

Everyoneโ€™s using video for everything these days because thatโ€™s where the ad money is. Hooray, the tyranny of capitalism.