Have you recently found anything new, cool or really exciting on the net?
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June 2nd, 2010
Maybe I’m just boring – but I haven’t had a wow! moment on the internet in a long time.
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I’m with you…nothing new, exciting and requiring forward thinking. But, maybe I just don’t “go out” enough.
It depends upon what you are looking for. My fiancé and I adore lists, so we check out Listverse every day. Digg is another interesting collection of web postings.
Welcome to fluther @Pied_Pfeffer – could you be more specific and link?
I often look at gorgeous pictures on Flickr. I always find something new and beautiful there.
You never know what you might find on StumbleUpon. :)
To answer the question, I had a “wow” moment when I found some new music on the internet recently. I’ve played those new songs probably 50 times each in the past week. There are some songs that are just so good that I have to go “wow” when I first hear them.
I found something quite interesting last night:
I learned about The Vrolik Museum which houses an extensive collection of specimens concentrating on severe genetic abnormalities. I am not linking to a site with pictures of the collection because they are disturbing. I already am very familiar with the Mutter Museum and plan to visit it some day.
The newest thing for me on the internet is Fluther, and that was about a month ago.
The Internet is dying slowly as the frontier closes. As States around the world start achieving greater and greater control of the Internet through its on- and off-ramps (service providers and content providers respectively), that which made the Internet special—access to what could not be found anywhere else—is destroyed. It was the inherently anarchic nature of the Internet which made it such a phenomenon. For the first time in their lives, people could access porn, political commentary, news, goods, and services which had not been approved by the State and its corporate masters.
Of course it couldn’t last. We are in the midst of seeing the Internet transformed into Television II by the concerted effort of industry and the State. They don’t want an interactive forum, they want something which will make you sit still while they pump propaganda into your gaping mouth. When IPv6 is finally rolled out (and it’s happening as we speak) the Internet will be dead. Under IPv4, all packets are treated the same way. It takes a great deal of work and money for ISPs to inspect every packet passing through, and there are always ways around it. With IPv6, every packet will be part of a hierarchy, and those who pay for better service will see their packets shoved to the head of the line. Banks, States, and corporations will be able to dominate the bandwidth, and the rest of us ordinary people will get the crumbs that are left over. They’ll have ABC and we’ll get PBS.
Of course, all that means is that those of us at the bleeding edge will need to move on the next public, anarchic forum for the free exchange of ideas. The State has been trying to catch up for 4000 years, from agora to the printing press to the CB radio to the Internet, Authority has consistently been a few years behind the ball, always clamping down too late to prevent the next outbreak of freedom. So it had been, and so mote it be.
TvTropes wasn’t really a “wow” moment, but it did become my largest timesink.
@lucillelucillelucille I half expected that video to end with the Looney Tunes intro.
@Nullo I feel like I time-warped. Your link sends you back here. Check it out.
You never know what you might find on StumbleUpon. :)
I think Stumbleupon is how I found Fluther.
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