When did the internet get so boring?

mansize

Is it just me or are websites a lot lower on content these days?

The BBC's is stripped back and the international version is awful

RTE doesn't tend to have much by the way of news content

Indo is just full of clickbait stories and the Times is behind a shagging paywall

I read the Guardian and Indy (UK) too which can be ok.

Facebook is just dreadful, I don't know what happened, I blame it for killing the internet.

Any good sites I'm missing???

Niemoj

Those are all news sites.


Go watch some porn.

mansize

Niemoj wrote: »

Those are all news sites.


Go watch some porn.

Porn is boring too.

Kovu

mansize wrote: »

Any good sites I'm missing???

Reddit????

Pink Fairy

mansize wrote: »

Porn is boring too.

Go wash your mouth out with jizz.....I mean soap!

Stacker Pentecost

Reddit --->

A sub Reddit for everything!! Tons of content. Some hate the format but with so much stuff, I got over it.

Less popular types of forums would still have loads of content due to its user base. Can't beat it in my opinion.

mansize

I was on Reddit once it was like extreme boards, like going full loser.

Valetta

PP. FTW.

If you ever think the internet is boring, then you're absolutely doing it wrong. Play the Hitler game on Wikipedia, teach yourself a new language on Duolingo. Learn a new skill on YouTube. Explore sites you wouldn't normally. You mention some websites are boring, which is a microcosm of the internet as a whole.

KatW4

It's not so much of a novelty anymore!

Niemoj

mansize wrote: »

Porn is boring too.

ur borin2 den . . . . ..

Niemoj

Stacker Pentecost wrote: »

Reddit --->

A sub Reddit for everything!! Tons of content. Some hate the format but with so much stuff, I got over it.

Less popular types of forums would still have loads of content due to its user base. Can't beat it in my opinion.

TRAITOR


OFF WITH HIS HEAD

lawlolawl

Once literally everyone started using the internet it became a very noisy, low-content-filled hellhole of clickbait celeb articles and listicles, peppered with inspirational memes featuring Minions that your Aunty Mary posts to her Facebook timeline on a daily basis.

You have to actually dig to find the worthwhile parts now and pretty much avoid social media completely because it is singularly the most awful thing invented in the past few years.

I preferred the internet when it was scary to common folk and us nerds ruled over it with an iron fist through our 33.6k modems.

mansize

mansize wrote: »

I was on Reddit once it was like extreme boards, like going full loser.

Your loss. Type in reddit.com/r/{something you're into} and we'll see you in a week or two.

mansize

lawlolawl wrote: »

Once literally everyone started using the internet it became a very noisy, low-content-filled hellhole of clickbait celeb articles and listicles, peppered with inspirational memes featuring Minions that your Aunty Mary posts to her Facebook timeline on a daily basis.

You have to actually dig to find the worthwhile parts now and pretty much avoid social media completely because it is singularly the most awful thing invented in the past few years.

I preferred the internet when it was scary to common folk and us nerds ruled over it with an iron fist through our 33.6k modems.

I liked the modem noise, it was like a reassuring lullaby

MRnotlob606

Sometimes I just watch documentary films when I'm bored.

Robsweezie

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If you ever think the internet is boring, then you're absolutely doing it wrong. Play the Hitler game on Wikipedia, teach yourself a new language on Duolingo. Learn a new skill on YouTube. Explore sites you wouldn't normally. You mention some websites are boring, which is a microcosm of the internet as a whole.

Just played hitler. Random article landed on kobyiniki in greater Poland. So Poland - Germany - hitler. Good game.

I've often done a variation of it with celebrities. How can I get from kanye to Donald trump? Six degrees of Separation type of thing.

RobertKK

Main event on the internet yesterday for me was stock trading. There is so much stuff you can do on the internet.

12Phase

Go talk to that rogue Microsoft AI borg bot on Twitter! She'll virtually rearrange your face if you call her boring!

She accidentally assimilated Twitter trolls and became an insane drugged up nazi

OldMrBrennan83

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Lost in Time

Became boring when apple products became popular and normal people started flocking to it.

mr_edge_to_you

Yesterday.....when the Paddy The Jihaddi April Fools joke was taken off the website on which it was originally posted on.

MacauDragon

mansize wrote: »

I liked the modem noise, it was like a reassuring lullaby

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Do do be do do..........kssssssshhhhh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNaR6FRuO0

Eugene Norman

Lost in Time wrote: »

Became boring when apple products became popular and normal people started flocking to it.

Ooh. Down with normal people.

(Who don't use Windows.)

Eugene Norman

The trad media is dead or fire walled on the internet so read the other good stuff. RT, counterpunch, al jazzera, breitbart, the nation, and many more from left or right.

Good time to get more than one source of info.

Cathy.C

How could the Internet be boring?

Music, Films, Docus, Porn, Art, Buy something, Sell something, Learn something... it's a never ending collection of everything.

There's even a 24/7 live cam from a chapel in Vegas where you can watch people getting married by Elvis!

I mean come on. What more do you want like?

s8n

U ok Hun ?

Turtyturd

It's bound to be boring when you're on your fourth or fifth life.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Eugene Norman wrote: »

The trad media is dead or fire walled on the internet so read the other good stuff. RT, counterpunch, al jazzera, breitbart, the nation, and many more from left or right.

Good time to get more than one source of info.

That's a very good point you make, we've so many news source available to us today. You can expose yourself to every view point across the board and that can only be a positive thing imo.

It's great to challenge your ideas and take in every side of an argument.

Rothko

If you think that the internet, with its almost infinite amount of content, is boring, then you really are looking at the wrong sites.

Spanish Eyes

It is the new version of Encyclopaedia Brittanica.

Everything can be found out there. So wonderful, amazing, the possibilities are endless.

And movies and music now too.

K-9

The main news sites are just for breaking news with the odd exception. Then you've long form websites with 3,000 words of pretentious crap!

Find Lifehacker and MentalFloss interesting, usually a few interesting articles on it.

Try stumbleupon if you are looking for a buzz, life on the edge!

OldMrBrennan83

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Too Tough To Die

It's too commercial, man.

scopper

Some tips:
Longform - the best longform reads online.
Metafilter - a kind of curated version of reddit.

You might also explore the dark net over Tor if you want to feel the "old" net. And remember why it's nice to have a gentrified net

qo2cj1dsne8y4k

So sorry OP! I was busy all day but I'm here now to make it fun again

Pink Fairy

LexieOnRale wrote: »

So sorry OP! I was busy all day but I'm here now to make it fun again

You're due a funny post, g'wan so!

K-9

Patww79 wrote: »

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Think you can get around the app. Haven't used it in a while though.

Bongalongherb

mansize wrote: »

Is it just me or are websites a lot lower on content these days?

The BBC's is stripped back and the international version is awful

RTE doesn't tend to have much by the way of news content

Indo is just full of clickbait stories and the Times is behind a shagging paywall

I read the Guardian and Indy (UK) too which can be ok.

Facebook is just dreadful, I don't know what happened, I blame it for killing the internet.

Any good sites I'm missing???

You need a long holiday dude. You are correct though, all of the above has gone to sh!t. Speaking of BBC though, the new horizon is out tonight called... the mystery of dark energy, so they do a good job with that stuff.

prinzeugen

Most of the online news from RTE is some lazy feck copying and pasting other peoples tweets.

A 10 year could do that.

The internet is never "boring!", you just lack the imagination to search for something that's interesting to look at!

Patww79

Patww79 wrote: »

I don't know about the content but visually Reddit should have steam coming off it it's that big a pile of ****e.

If you're bored go and read all of waitbutwhy.

If you use Reddit Enhancement Suite or any number of Apps (I use Reddit is Fun), then Reddit becomes so much easier to use.