What do you miss from the old internet?

posted 8 months ago

i think we need Cracked-style articles back. desperately. or like, a guy doing a weird thing and writing a piece on it. sites like those are declining faster than the glaciers.

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Dave.@aussie.zone

64 points

8 months ago

I can read and skim documents for salient details at 500 - 800 words per minute.

And then someone links me to a twelve minute video on YouTube where 800 words are spoken in total , 300 of those words are “um,so”, and all we’re looking at is either the narrator , or possibly a static slide with a few paragraphs on it… and also an inset of the narrator, narrating.

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Cethin@lemmy.zip

8 points

8 months ago

You also can’t ctrl-f a video. It’s by far the worst format for information.

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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works

3 points

8 months ago

And in terms of actual information per kilobyte, it’s often absolutely laughable compared to text.

Everyone’s using video for everything these days because that’s where the ad money is. Hooray, the tyranny of capitalism.

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