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I *seriously have reached the end of the internet.


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This sucks shit. I swear, I've been using the internet since I was 11, and I am now 24... it is nothing new to me. Now when I get on the internet I check here and read a small handful of threads started by people that I recognise from being on here for a while, the rest I leave alone.... and other than that I have about one other site that I check. The part that sucks so bad is, what the hell am I supposed to do on the internet when I've run out of ideas. The same thing applies for the p2p stuff. I've downloaded every music/app/game I can think of. I think I seriously have reached the end of the internet. Suggestions? I am not interested in porn so you can save those links for some other thread. I need ideas.

 

:scrambled::scrambled::scrambled::scrambled:

 

 

hey a handy tool when you think you ran out of finding things http://www.stumbleupon.com

 

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Hahah, "Windows for Workgroups"... what a joke that was but it got the job done. My very first internet experience was actually voice communicating with a guy that was in Germany. The quality sounded like a crackly radio, but I was definitely talking to someone far far away... so it wasn't actually surfing for me.

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here's my take on it...

 

TEH INTERNETS SUXZOR

 

 

Think of the billions of dollars sunk into this internet project over the last 10 years

and what do we really have to show for it? Myspace? Youtube? Even wikipedia seems

like a consolation compared to what could have been done with the 300 Billion spent

on e-projects like laying fiber connections and start-up companies. That's $1000 for

every single person in the USA. Think if the cash went into say..... electric cars?

 

I see a MAJOR move offline in the next few years. Considering the life of any web fad

is about 2 years (remember geocities?) that means that even the giants like myspace

and youtube are going to get boring and dated. The only things that will continue to

move forward are things that are directly connected to the real world. Take for example,

MLB.com They make over $200 million in subscriber fees each year, and are valued at

$5Billion. They provide a way for baseball fans to enjoy baseball in a new way, as opposed

to myspace which has tried to invent a whole new product that will get tired of quickly.

 

Find something online that links directly to the real world. There's lots of colleges and free

classes online and you can use the web as a learning aid instead of the great time waster

that it currently is for most of us. The web (not counting web based email) has KILLED work

productivity but only if you let it. Use the online time for a task, like learning or making

some real world money, and it will seem like a whole new place.

 

 

or just find a good book to read.

 

 

 

Wow, I am in total, complete disagreement. I think the web is gonna become more and more important, pervasive, and essential for everyday life. It has altered the way we live and communicate with each other and it will only go forward from that.

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you gotta have a big ego to think your mind has exhausted everything possible and plausible on the internet

 

 

No, I'm just out of ideas... and am here asking for more. Good guess though, but you're wrong...

 

 

Thank you After School Special, I will check those links out, I appreciate it.

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Re: I *serrously have reached the end of the internet.

 

Wow, I am in total, complete disagreement. I think the web is gonna become more and more important, pervasive, and essential for everyday life. It has altered the way we live and communicate with each other and it will only go forward from that.

 

 

essential for everyday life?

 

The National Academy of Engeneering ranked Internet as the 13th most important

engeneering feat in the past 100 years. Well try giving up you washing machine

for a month and doing all your laundry by hand. Then if you got to pick the internet

or a washer / dryer combo, I bet 95% of people would be cutting the 'net cable.

 

How about this.... the odds of a child being propositioned online is 1 in 10.

If those same odds applied to real life, I'd be moving to another city fast.

 

Remeber all the hype the internet generated back when it was new? Bill Gates called

it a 'tidal wave' that will "wash over the computer industry and others, and drown everyone

who doesn't learn to swim in it's waves". Has that happened? Maybe in the computer

industry, and banking, but that's about it. There was so much smoke being blown about

how the internet was the best thing since the printing press, or even the discovery of fire,

but where is the big pay-off? Facebook?

 

I agree that the internet is still in it's infancy, but all the hype did turn out to be bullshit.

 

Lycos top searches for 2005:

  1. Paris Hilton
  2. Pamela Anderson
  3. Britney Spears
  4. Poker
  5. Dragonball
  6. Jennifer Lopez
  7. WWE
  8. Pokemon
  9. Playstation
  10. Hurricane Katrina

and let's see what wikipedia, the internet darling was searching for in 2006:

 

1. Main Page

2. Wikipedia

3. United States

4. List of big-bust models and performers

5. JonBenét Ramsey

6. List of sex positions

7. Wiki

8. Hurricane Katrina

9. Pluto

10. List of female porn stars

11. Irukandji jellyfish

12. Pornography

13. Wii

14. World Wrestling Entertainment roster

15. Jeff Hardy

16. Pokémon

17. September 11, 2001 attacks

18. Celebrity sex tape

19. Neighbours

20. Warren Jeffs

21. C programming language

22. Sasuke Uchiha

23. Volkswagen Type 2

24. Priyanka Chopra

25. Morocco

26. Nicole Scherzinger

27. United States Air Force

28. Batman

29. List of gay porn stars

30. Tupac Shakur

 

 

 

 

wow...... the shining future promise of technology.

 

:rolleyes:

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people will still be people

i don't think any invention will improve upon the essence of our existence or the meaning of life

 

but it certainly can increase the breadth and depth of our knowledge of ourselves and each other

sounds incredibly corny, but it has and will continue to change the way humans interact and communicate on a fundamental level.

 

it will also continue on the mad march toward everything accesible and convenient

which as humans, appears to be one of the main goals of our species.

(as the internet reaches more cell phones it'll get even more influential)

 

dirty

maybe you should start keeping the livejournal thing. or doing a blog. if you have reached the end of what the internet can do for you, maybe it is time for you to conribute to the content of the internet and fill the void

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You're picking and choosing superficial elements of the web and completely ignoring fundamental qualities. If you evaluate the internet strictly on mass social entertainment sites, you will inevitably run into a HUGE amount of crap, and top search terms will obviously reflect on what the majority of people online look for, and we all know most people are stupid. Even if 99% of the internet is crap, the other 1% is currently redefining so many paradigms it renders the other 99-percenter's output obsolete. What Bill Gates warned is DEFINITELY happening, and has prompted Microsoft to undergo a rennaissance of sorts. The Googles and Microsofts of the world, with the internet at its core, are set to become the most powerful and influential institutions in the planet, which is something we'll all feel the effects of. The information management system of the internet is becoming the de-facto standard of communication and media consumption on the planet. This is huge. Communication is probably the single most important human ability, and a medium that revolutionizes communication will inevitable change the overall human experience. The current mass response and use of said medium does not in any way make it less revolutionary. If anything, that is a testament of the general state of vapidness of humanity, brought on by decades of passiveness, than it is a statement about the internet.

 

Saying the internet hasn't lived up to the hype is like being back in the 20's saying TV wouldn't change our lives because all we could see were moving drawings and shitty 5-minute silent films of circus acts. I mean, how could that possibly be of any value?

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maybe it is time for you to conribute to the content of the internet and fill the void

 

This, to me, is the most obvious conclusion when you finally feel at the end of the internet. The advent of Web 2.0, where user-generated content reigns, is the the second step forward of baby web. Go out and create something.

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so mamerro..... internet or washing machine?

 

 

 

on the whole I do agree with your point that the internet is the future of comunications and that the few usefull bits are worth wading through the sludge. People boasted that the internet was going to be this global communication system that would break down the barriers between people all over the world and lead to a new era of international teamwork and collaboration. In some cases that has worked, but in most it's just reafirmed that people dont want to use technology for improvement, but to continue with the vices of the offline world.

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Washing machine or toothbrush? It could go on and on.

 

I think the boast still holds, we haven't arrived there yet and it probably won't be for at least another 3-4 generations of the internet. But you can't expect the masses to be involved in teamwork and collaboration because masses by definition don't do that, masses simply follow. Teams and collaborators (the people that actually make things the masses use) are involved, and the internet allows them to get shit done. But cases of mass teamwork are beginning to spring up (mob rallies for elections organized through blogs, Snakes on a Plane, distributed computing, etc.) because the internet is finally giving them something to do, something TV and radio never did.

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it will be the end of the net if they go to privatization.

 

 

Congress is pushing a law that would abandon the Internet's First Amendment -- a principle called Network Neutrality that prevents companies like AT&T, Verizon and Comcast from deciding which Web sites work best for you -- based on what site pays them the most. If the public doesn't speak up now, our elected officials will cave to a multi-million dollar lobbying campaign.

http://www.savetheinternet.com/

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