> The other half is that people stopped making cool internet things
Nah, it was always a small group of people making cool internet things. Now they are just drowned out by the commercial internet.
Nah, it was always a small group of people making cool internet things. Now they are just drowned out by the commercial internet.
But they're not putting those things on quirky hand-coded websites, so Hacker News doesn't care. The idea that most of the modern web is boring, uninteresting and not worth anyone's time is just peak tech-hipster contrarian nonsense. Sheer volume alone would suggest that, even if that were true, the interesting remainder would still be bigger than one could see within a lifetime.
And elsewhere.
I mean, the fact that you only check a few sites and HN doesn't say anything about the rest of the internet. How would you even know if the rest of the internet is interesting or not if you never bother clicking a link out?
Most of it sucks, but it always sucked.
Those sites vs the old Internet is basically the difference between a modern supermarket and a flea market, both provide you with lots of stuff, but it's a completely different experience.