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The Toilet Theory of the Internet: Google is serving an audience that wants quick and easy results. That may lead to disaster. (www.theatlantic.com)

submitted 6 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 74 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (10 children)

What have new generations been led into thinking that the internet is supposed to be? They dont even know what a directory is or what a file path is, because of design that dumbs things down...

It is important, because what people think the internet is and what they value will affect what it will evolve into.

E.g. wikipedia is reflects somehow my view of the internet in the 2000s (Encarta :D)...but for some people today the internet is just social media...or just videos?

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 7 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (7 children)

E.g. wikipedia is reflects somehow my view of the internet in the 2000s (Encarta :D)…but for some people today the internet is just social media…or just videos?

BTW, does anybody know of an offline encyclopedia which works under Wine?

I liked those too.

The Internet for me was about finding texts about fandoms or anything interesting, roleplaying forums, chats and some browser games. Downloading MP3`s once in a while, downloading and printing Star Wars pics.

EDIT:

They dont even know what a directory is or what a file path is, because of design that dumbs things down…

A kiosk with services.

[–] Gsus4@mander.xyz 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

BTW, does anybody know of an offline encyclopedia which works under Wine?

You can download wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_download

edit: if you really meant you want to see if any old encyclopedias work under wine, I never tried :D

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I know, I meant something interactive from that time, complete and consistent. Like Encarta.

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I'm still consulting my venerable encyclopaedia britannica dvd until this day. It works great under wine and actually does not work under a current version of windows anymore.

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

It works great under wine

Which version is that?

EDIT: Never mind

[–] jfx@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)

2008 ultimate

[–] rottingleaf@lemmy.zip 1 points 6 months ago

Ah. I actually found the 2004 version and the script to run it on Linux, and it works except for world atlas

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