- So where are we in 2015? With an internet largely controlled by Google and thousands of ad networks, one that's slow,even on mobile, and one that provides content that advertisers want us to click through to pay them instead of truly learning something or being inspired by something creative.
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Who's doing this to my internet?
But most importantly, who will solve it?
This seems more like a rant about how something the writer loved has taken an annoying turn. In the entire history of media, nothing ever stays great. In all fairness, your favourite website or service is likely going to take the same arc as your favourite televisioin show (albeit over a longer time period). How long until the site you love jumps the shark?
How long untill there exist a universal peer hosted webserver?
Something like TOR hidden service, but for something else than drugs.
I would gladly share all of my unused bandwidth to help host ad-free websites. Anyone wants to help developing it?
Yeah, so I just learned there's already Freenet and GNUnet. What we really need, then, is a GNUnet-powered SoundCloud clone...
Gremlins are doing this to the internet. There is a series of interconnected tubes deep in the Earth's crust where you can find cities of gremlins tinkering with phone lines, radio towers, web pipelines, data centers and related. There is, in fact, a concrete tube, encircled with Vibranium, where all the information of the entire Earth's internet goes through, and the gremlins grab the information as it passes through, and reshape it using gremlin magic, and they wear 3d glasses while doing so because this particular magic requires them to wear the 3d glasses in order to control the flow of data. These glasses give them a glimpse of powers that make their hairless bodies tremble with giggling, nefarious delight. In these cities of gremlins deep below the Earth's crust, there is a power elite of gremlins who sit in plush human hide chairs and smoke cigars made of the bones of humans, and they are carefully manipulating the control of information on the surface far above, have been doing so since the time of Benjamin Franklin when he first channeled the power of the sky through lightning (they funded his research, you know) for a nefarious purpose no one but they know. They can see far into the future, and have much power. Gremlins are messing up the internet, man. 