Old Web Is Dying

BSI survey of 1,293 young Britons finds they live life online but want an escape route as technology fails to make them happy.

It’s a little easier to justify trying Kagi now.

Explore the impact of Wikipedia’s deletionist approach and its effects on content preservation and management. This white paper offers a detailed analysis of the shift towards deletion and its implications.

In the first half of 2024, the report says, X received nearly 67 million reports of hateful conduct, and took action on more than 2,000 accounts.

Between ChatGPT’s surprisingly human voice and Meta’s AI characters, our feeds may be about to change forever

There is no "online world." That was always a metaphor, and as it turns out, a bad one. But what can take its place?

Strava launched in 2009 as a niche website for cyclists to log mileage. During the pandemic, it blossomed into a mobile app serving more than 120 million athletes as worldwide lockdowns drove people outdoors.

“Hot Ones,” “Chicken Shop Date” and “Good Mythical Morning” draw big audiences but aren’t getting the kind of ad dollars and accolades TV shows do.

Towards a viable alt-tech philosophy made up of individually delusional, collectively rational parts

DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.

We're all learning about major events through increasingly bizarre digital formats.

For the sixth year in a row, India led the world in internet shutdowns, disrupting the internet at least 116 times.

For a quarter century, internet cafes connected the world. Now they’re vanishing into history.

'Diplomatic race' with Washington as Beijing pursues self-sufficient global network

It never should have begun.

A quarter of all webpages that existed at one point between 2013 and 2023 are no longer accessible.

A random, obscure content generator for the web. Discover media with zero views from YouTube, TikTok, Spotify, and more.

Many yearn for the “good old days” of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

Sometime this month, Reddit will go public at a valuation of $6.5bn. Select Redditors were offered the chance to buy stock at the initial listing price, which it hasn’t announced yet but is expected to be in the range of $31-34 per share. Regardless of the actual price,

Corruption everywhere, even in YouTube's kids content

The internet seems ripe for change, and millions of people seem poised to connect in new ways, as they reconsider their relationship to technology.

The cheap web is a solarpunk philosophy of web design.

Silicon Valley has its own ascendant political ideology. It’s past time we call it what it is.

Last week, Apple opened pre-orders for the Vision Pro, a $3500 “spatial computer” that is its first real “new” thing since the Apple Watch, and arguably its most notable release since the iPad or iPhone. Ming-Chi Kuo, one of the few truly reliable Apple analysts, estimates that the Vision Pro

The Internet used to be so simple to use that people collectively coined the term “let me Google that for you” to make fun of people who had the audacity of asking other people questions online. In the future I fear that people will have no other choice but to ask people for information from the Internet, because right now it’s all full of AI dogshit.

It has been a truly bizarre week. We’ve watched three banks die, and then a fourth bank almost died (Credit Suisse) before being scooped up by UBS for the rock-bottom price of $3.2bn. Credit Suisse’s fall from grace is especially remarkable given that it was

Or why tech upgrades are now mostly downgrades

What happened after my wife and I removed Wi-Fi from our home

It is the zoomers’ web now.

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