The internet is shit?

[Blizzard]

http://www.internetisshit.org/index.html

The site's name explains everything. Don't worry, you won't need more than 10 minutes to read it all through (except you're a reptard !_! ).

I love this part:

email it to your friends. The internet is shit.

Very contradictionary. (-_-') Why should I even e-mail if the web is shit? Anyways, there IS truth in his words. What do you think?

Here are a few extra links:

Wiki on Shit, lol!

Uncyclopedia on Shit, LMAO!

[Deliciously_Saucy]

I think it's a little ironic that he is using the internet to get that message across. Although be it true... But he forgot to mention the internet's greatest part: Pure, Clean, Porn.

Oh and thank you for those immature wiki links...

[Tsunokiette]

Also, he forgets to mention that you have to look for days to find info on certain topics. I found NOTHING when I was researching for my research paper in the library. If there was something, it was already out of cycle. (No longer available anywhere)

I could find info on the topic in a flash online. :/

[Deliciously_Saucy]

Yeh with mass amounts of information piling up on the net, it is becoming harding to find specific knowledge quickly...

[slydeltah]

It reads like my self-righteous friend thinks. Wanting to eliminate even money from the equation of life. The internet is a vital tool for e-commerce, etc. Yea, it may have become bombarded with shit, but world in itself is shit, and is an accurate reflection of the new lowered standard for the way we live, everthing is money driven' and as such, is it a big fucken surprise that the internet isn't? Dumb shit.

[Arrow]

I agree...It needs to happen, but not a man alive can tell you where to start without it being completely outlandish and entirely impossible.

[Blizzard]

It's interesting how everything that starts out good ends up like shit when idiots try to improve it. For example television. I mean, the very first Big Brother in any country was really good. Any sequel was just shit.

@DS: You're welcome for the very immature wiki links.
Seriously, people need to laugh more. I rofl'd yesterday when I "read" this:

http://uncyclopedia.org/wiki/AAAAAAAAA!

[zxm]

The internet is shit.

It is vitally important that we all realize this and move on. People (eg Bloggers) go on and on about how wonderful it is. About how much information is out there in cyberspace. About the way that everything is within reach in just a few clicks of their mice.

For instance:

"If I can operate Google, I can find anything... Google, combined with Wi-Fi, is a little bit like God. God is wireless, God is everywhere and God sees and knows everything. Throughout history, people connected to God without wires. Now, for many questions in the world, you ask Google, and increasingly, you can do it without wires, too."

Alan Cohen, V.P. of Airespace, a new Wi-Fi provider, New York Times, 6/29/03

I can name 20 people from my old school class who aren't in Google. I can walk into any public library, no matter how tiny and underfunded, and find facts, stories, amazing information I would never touch in a month of webcrawling. I can go into a bar and hear stories Usenet hasn't come close to in its 22 years of waffle. "Oh but what about the stuff you CAN get on the web?" the netheads say. But they're missing the point.

The internet is not the sole basis upon which you can determine existence. It sounds simple but people are starting to forget. If it doesn't have a website, that doesn't make something low quality. If you can't Google your blind date, that doesn't make them a freak. If one website says something about anything, it's more than likely pure invention and shouldn't be taken seriously. Checking your sources does not mean finding another website that says the same. Fiction is self-perpetuating.

Let's say it another way. A URL is not a mark of quality. It's not proof of honesty or approval from the FDA. Sure, people say they know this already, that a lot of the internet isn't true and a lot of it isn't interesting, no matter how angst-ridden and attention-seeking its author. But still we praise the internet for everything, from mobilising global protests to creating the latest trends, while disappearing up its backside and discarding anything outside it as 'out of touch'.

While we ascribe every first-world miracle to the electronic age, there's something truly missing that we once had in our grasp: our sense of wonder. Back in 1995, we were surprised, agog when things appeared on the net. People starting going around saying 'wow, this could really become something'. Slowly (very slowly at 16kbps), strange websites, new information, odd diversions and discussions with people around the world appeared in this brave new world. Each time it was met with surprise and delight, even if some of it was deeply obscure and slightly dull. There was no doubting the potential of the medium.

And look what we've done with it. Food wrappers and soap operas now tell us to visit their websites. Money is pumped online by people who can't even spell HTML. All manner of pointless and irritating content is continually poured down the infinite hole of data, unfiltered and over-appreciated. In accepting freedom of speech, we can't hide from its consequences - which in this case is millions of terabytes of unreliable information, badly designed and clumsily written. We have failed our own creation and given birth something truly awful. We're just too busy cooing over the pram to notice.

We need to start again. We need to stop saying how wonderful things are. We need to openly, truthfully and respectfully admit that the internet itself, in almost all of what's been done with it, is shit.

There's no point in undoing what has been done. What we need to do is to change our attitude. The internet isn't new any more. The evangelists have done their job. Everyone's heard of it even if they don't spend their lives logged on. Now its the job of the congregation to revolt. Chant it from the rooftops, spread it across your server, email it to your friends. The internet is shit.

And then what? Then we can move on. If we truly understand that the internet is shit then maybe we'll go back to looking elsewhere to check our information instead of just Google. Maybe journalists will do proper research again. If we remember that the medium isn't the message then maybe we'll stop aimlessly surfing for something amusing when we could actually be doing something fun. And, crucially, if the internet is just seen as occasionally unavoidable, maybe those websites that give us something special will be all the more amazing for it.

Give an infinite number of monkeys typewriters and they'll produce the works of Shakespeare. Unfortunately, I feel like I'm reading all the books where they didn't. I can't wait for the day when the internet makes me rejoice in its possibilities again. But right now, it's shit.

[Moss.]

Clearly this is just some 40-year old man who works at a library, raging against the machine because he'll be out of a job soon, or something like that.

[SexualBubblegumX]

Concordo.

[Blizzard]

That's most probably the matter. But he HAS a point in there. I mean, just look at all the crappy blogs around the web. And there also are tons of crappy sites.

[Moss.]

There are also tons of crappy libraries and crappy strip clubs and crappy adult book stores in crappy cities.

[Blizzard]

Also true. I mean this one here:

I can name 20 people from my old school class who aren't in Google. I can walk into any public library, no matter how tiny and underfunded, and find facts, stories, amazing information I would never touch in a month of webcrawling. I can go into a bar and hear stories Usenet hasn't come close to in its 22 years of waffle. "Oh but what about the stuff you CAN get on the web?" the netheads say. But they're missing the point.

is a really idiotic point. That guy has never heard of wiki...

I can walk into any public library, no matter how tiny and underfunded, and find facts, stories, amazing information I would never touch in a month of webcrawling.

[SexualBubblegumX]

That's most probably the matter. But he HAS a point in there. I mean, just look at all the crappy blogs around the web. And there also are tons of crappy sites.

Like for instance, 99% of myspace. And all the people I skullfuxxorz at Xanga.

[Snailer]

 www.theinternetdied.com >.>

[ataraxy2]

Reading this I wonder. Is the internet finite and where EXACTLY does this all go (sites)? I don't know either of them. But I get the odd feeling it's infinite.

[Blizzard]

It's not infinite. Everything that had a "start" has an end as well. It can't be infinite. The internet is just a limited ammount of data, being transfered and stored on servers and your HDD.

[SexualBubblegumX]

Acually, I don't think any thing can truly be infinite.

[Blizzard]

And money?!

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