Wanted to ask you about this article, how do you remember the early days of the internet (I was sadly too young at that time). Do you wish it back? And do you think it can ever be like that again? I would be very interested

  • Noah Gibbs
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    11 year ago

    @4am @swan_pr And it’s much harder to sell ads on text instructions 😞

    The ad-driven nature of the internet means we get that instead of what we want.

      • Noah Gibbs
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        11 year ago

        @keith @4am @swan_pr

        It’s still hard that it cuts off the early internet. Ads driven by search engines means SEO, which mean making it *very* hard to find the kind of instructions you can’t sell ads on.

        It’s understandable that people write what they can get paid for. It’s hard that the early Internet methods of doing this are now effectively dead, with no replacement.

          • Noah Gibbs
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            11 year ago

            @Tooden @keith @4am @swan_pr

            Unfortunately, no. The answer to “ads drive off good content with ad-friendly content” is not going to be more ad-friendly content.

            That’s already driven the payments for ads down well below liveable levels. Making the content more cheaply is only going to increase that trend.

            You can still make content better than what makes sense for ad-supported. But it’s going to be buried even deeper in the ad-ecosystem deluge, so it won’t really be findable.