There's a line that keeps coming up in so many conversations I'm in these days: It feels like 2004 on the internet again. And that's a good thing, because it means all of today's incumbents won't make it to the next era of the internet. www.anildash.com/2024/10/15/i... - ThreadSky

anildash.com • 139 days ago

There's a line that keeps coming up in so many conversations I'm in these days: It feels like 2004 on the internet again. And that's a good thing, because it means all of today's incumbents won't make it to the next era of the internet. https://www.anildash.com/2024/10/15/its-2004-again/

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tilmonedwards.com•139 days ago

Ironically and sadly, your link at the bottom of this post - "the renaissance of the open, human internet is in full swing" - leads to a 404 page 😭

anildash.com•139 days ago

sorry about that! weird copy & paste error, fixed now.

autrachsejanoz.bsky.social•139 days ago

Still getting a 404...

anildash.com•139 days ago

Whoops, should be fixed now. I was messing around a bit while on plane wifi, always a bad idea.

jai-dit.bsky.social•139 days ago

It's not showing up under "view all posts" for me, either (most recent is Sep 15)

anildash.com•139 days ago

sorry, should be okay now.

writeups.org•139 days ago

My main reservation about your article is that it made me realise that 2004 was, indeed, 20 years ago.

larelli.bsky.social•139 days ago

Disinformation! Disinformation on social media!!

koberulz.bsky.social•139 days ago

Typo at the start of the fourth paragraph, FYI.

keithwilliams.bsky.social•139 days ago

I started work in tech back then (well, “tech”, but back then it was “Junior IT Technician” and I was on the office washing-up rota). I hope you’re right - feels like possibilities are opening up.

lessem.org•139 days ago

I really hope you're right, but one of the big differences I see this time around the cycle is that the big players know a lot more about lobbying and regulatory capture than they did in 2004.

anildash.com•139 days ago

They sure do! But they’re way more lost in the sauce within their cultural bubble.

marypcbuk.bsky.social•139 days ago

and I feel like at least some governments and political parties have noticed the silicon valley playbook

seegras.bsky.social•139 days ago

Oh yeah, and what about the incumbent in the picture that's still peddling their shit to every company?

It sadly didn't go bankrupt in 2004. #MicrosoftStillSucks

anildash.com•139 days ago

Gotta drop the dollar sign on ‘em! Gimme a “Micro$ucks”!

marypcbuk.bsky.social•139 days ago

Micro$haft is the usual childish vitriol here

misternov3mber.bsky.social•139 days ago

Does this link intentionally lead to a 404? Because that feels apt...

anildash.com•139 days ago

d'oh! Sorry, give it a shot now.

andresb.net•138 days ago

Hey Anil, still giving a 404.

anildash.com•137 days ago

Weird! Fixed again, I have some kind of build loop that’s rolling things back. I’ll take a look at it later.

jdp23.thenexus.today•136 days ago

Looks like it's still looping, I'm 404'ing. "The internet feels like 404 again"?

andresb.net•137 days ago

I see it now. Thanks!

panic.club•139 days ago

Who knew that decentralization just meant everyone hating twitter and facebook

I will say though that TikTok remains immensely popular

sylvainpg.bsky.social•135 days ago

Still a 404...Uh.

anildash.com•135 days ago

Hmm! Strange, I see it now. There’s really something intermittent I gotta debug.

waderockett.bsky.social•139 days ago

I’ve lived my online life on Twitter and Wordpress dot com for what feels like forever. Now I’m on Bluesky, canceling my WP subscription, and tinkering with HTML again on Neocities.

whetstone.bsky.social•137 days ago

📌

bnewbold.net•139 days ago

yes! feels this way to me. it is like the big platforms had big exclusion force fields around building social web projects for more than a decade, and those fields are now either down or weakened, but not everybody recognizes it

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