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What the Web Was and What It Has Become

posted by martyb on Friday November 03 2017, @11:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the took-a-wrong-turn dept.

canopic jug writes:

The Web began dying in 2014. André Staltz writes about how and why. In a nutshell, traffic from mobile and tablet devices now surpasses that from regular desktop computers and of that traffic the overwhelming majority goes to either Faecebook or Google. Amazon is also in there. None of them have any interest in defending the open Web any more. Rather the situation is the opposite, they are aiming to carve out a section and establish very isolated walled gardens. Net Neutrality, or the lack thereof, lie at the heart of their plans based on the direction they have moved since 2014.

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  • (Score: 4, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @04:23AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @04:23AM (#592070)

    My teenage daughters are already there. They think FB is simply barbaric. Email? What's that?

    Instead, they have created a whole new language based on "memes". Seriously, think emojis but with memes. They have whole conversations via so-called texting these images to each other, also over instagram, snapchat and others, always via a slew of context and audience specific fake accounts. An added comment can alter or reverse the implied meaning of the meme. It's fascinating. I'd like to see a cultural anthropologist or linguist study it.

    I'm lucky I have such a good relationship with them and they trust me with this stuff. I feel sorry for the other kids' parents.

    The Times, they is a changin'. And fast.

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  • (Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Saturday November 04 2017, @10:56AM

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Saturday November 04 2017, @10:56AM (#592133) Journal

    They have whole conversations via so-called texting these images to each other, also over instagram, snapchat and others, always via a slew of context and audience specific fake accounts. An added comment can alter or reverse the implied meaning of the meme. It's fascinating. I'd like to see a cultural anthropologist or linguist study it.

    Smart [wikipedia.org]. This is one way to keep your privacy. There's hope yet.

    A technique used extensively in everyday life in former communist countries, except that all we had was text... easier nowadays, isn't it?
    (take that, Google AI... and NSA. Deal with thousands of "dialects" if you can, without a common life experience to act as the foundation to decipher these dialects).

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