Inspired by the post about the hieroglyphs the one dude hoped would last forever.

People always talk about future historians being confused at memes and old forums, but surely a lot of catastrophic events could just wipe out the internet wholesale, right? If something REALLY COOL posadist-nuke like a giant meteor wiped out everybody, what if aliens came along and were deeply confused that our culture seems to end randomly in the mid 2010s, subsumed by an internet whose only remaining shreds are references in big scientific studies?

The history textbooks on our dumb asses would surely read "and the humans all talked into screens and used "hyper links" to share information and opinions. Very little is known about this obscure human ritual as no evidence can be found of its existence beyond scattered references in ancient texts contemporary to its existence."

Thinkin bout the impermanence of the internet rn

  • SteamedHamberder [he/him]
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    1 month ago

    When I find a recipe that works I just write it down in a spiral cookbook my wife got in a buy nothing group.

    Searching for recipes is such a hellscape, and it’s bound to get worse with AI telling us to put fucking glue in everything.

    • ElGosso [he/him]
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      1 month ago

      Something I've learned about the internet is that curation is actually really valuable.

      Having someone whose taste you generally agree with, whose job it is to go "hey this actually sucks" or "hey this is actually good" is infinitely better than just digging through the miles of garbage that people dump out online, and that's even from before the dead internet really kicked off.

      Like if you want recipes, you'll have an infinitely better time going to your local library and checking out an actual cookbook than you will desperately scraping through blogs.

    • ssj2marx@lemmy.ml
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      1 month ago

      I don't know if it still exists but I remember years ago someone on reddit linking me to a recipe website that was just white text on a black background, click on the style of food or search, get a recipe with an image, all in an ultralight html-only package. I wish I still had the link.