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Back when the internet wasn’t trash, before the corporate world ruined it.

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So true. Fun trash, like playing with cardboard boxes. Then monetization came along and started dumping raw sewage in our garages.

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Oh, web had been full of trash long by 1999. Which is why the ad was worded like it is.

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It was still way better than the shit we have now. We need a new internet.

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Let’s build a new one, with blackjack and hookers.

Forget the blackjack!

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I mean, we’re kind of on it now. So it’s a step at least lol

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Pre-enshittification.

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Yes, it really did used to be like that.

A very long time ago.

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A lot of e-companies, particularly the search engines, around the turn of the millennium, went completely crazy over the “portal” business. Everyone wanted you to make them your home page. News feeds, generous 15 megabytes of email space, web search index last updated 1.5 geological megacycles ago - “well, you see, the web sure is growing rapidly, dunno if anyone can do anything about that in the future, we sure can’t”. Oh and ads. Lots of ads.

So in that light, Google kind of stood out. Actually updated search index, relevant results, no-nonsense user interface.

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Google was both the best tool to use the Internet and the killer app that anyone could use for the new market. It’s instant gigantic growth was because it was good at what it did. Then it forgot what it did and started doing everything another big tech company did, like phones or social media or streaming services. Now it does everything and none of it particularly well. Shame.

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They placed quarterly profits over true innovation, then began the slide into irrelevancy

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Yeah, this is the context here. The trend was to have these super dense home pages with all sorts of overwhelming noise, like the Yahoo home page:

Google was remarkable for bucking that trend, and basically still does have that ultra focused home page. It’s not that now Google shows you ads and a weather widget in the search results-- it’s that it’s got the good sense to at least wait until you search for something.

Not to detract from the enshittification-themed comments or anything. Please do carry on, fellows.

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People have latched onto “enshittification” to mean “things got worse,” but this is exactly the phase 1 example of the was Doctorow defined it. Google started out being something optimized for the benefit of the user.

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Aged like milk, you say?

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