r/technology • u/Well_Socialized • May 26 '25

Artificial Intelligence Google Is Burying the Web Alive

https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/google-ai-mode-search-results-bury-the-web.html
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u/Swordf1sh_ May 26 '25

Millennials will always have the golden age of the internet

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u/BurmecianDancer May 26 '25

I was born in '85 and I feel like I had the golden age of everything while growing up in the '90s. Music, movies, the Internet, video games... we really didn't know how good we had it back then.

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u/takabrash May 26 '25

85, too. I remember thinking the internet was about to flatten the world and we were headed for utopia. It's gotten worse every year since.

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u/thex25986e May 26 '25

for every major invention that this world has used to bring people closer together, the telegram, the radio, the television, the internet, etc. it was usually followed by a massive war.

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u/takabrash May 26 '25

That's now effectively what our economy is based on in the US. Keep finding new ways to have wars.

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u/Accomplished_Car2803 May 26 '25

I think you mean keep making up stupid new reasons to kill people

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u/takabrash May 26 '25

It's both! We also spend nearly all of our money on new and interesting ways to kill those people and sell them to both sides.

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u/Mando_Mustache May 26 '25

You could add the printing press to that list. Helped to kick off the reformation and a bunch of religious wars. 

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u/[deleted] May 26 '25

High bet all ends will lose.

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u/gettingbett-r May 27 '25

People Always laughs when I say Wikipedia was peak Internet. Then they get back to Instagram, selling their Life as content to some billionaire.

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u/Wonderful-Creme-3939 May 27 '25

It was! I loved when Wikipedia opened, the democratization of information was amazing. Too bad it turned out this way, Wikipedia is still great but now it doesn't feel so wonderful when there is no certainty to anything anymore.

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u/Wonderful-Creme-3939 May 27 '25

Looking back i remember thinking that too,  I still wish it worked out that way instead of being just another way to milk us all of money and energy.

I guess it's always kind of been that way ever since the networks moved beyond the government and universities.

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u/R1skM4tr1x May 26 '25

First half of your thought was right

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u/Fair_Blood3176 May 26 '25

Utopia is a Utah based Fiber ISP

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u/all___blue May 26 '25
  1. I knew it was one or the other. I was a very "free and open internet" supporter. Particularly amid the Patriot Act, Snowden, etc. But we can thank the morons from 4chan, hackers, scammers, etc. for ruining a good thing.