Strickland

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May 17, 2019
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Was considering trying the bald look and for the first time in 34 years decided to trim most of the hair, leaving only a buzzcut to get an impression before going for fully bald. Turns out my head isn’t really proportionate and I look a bit like an older lesbian
 
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Siamak

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A blonde won man of the world 2025

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Going through the bookmarks I've saved over the years and 90% of the links are dead. The internet in 2025.
The new wave of social media is spreading rapidly and users mostly young and new generation tend to participate and spend there even though the quality of tools are low to me. I think and expect in the coming decade approximately 90% of forums and discussion websites will fade. Educational sites and platforms will suffer a similar fate as their traffic drops sharply and they are replaced by AI tools like Chatgpt.
 
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mjromeo81

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Aug 29, 2022
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Going through the bookmarks I've saved over the years and 90% of the links are dead. The internet in 2025.
I've been archiving / saving pages as PDFs for a while now if I come across something I want to retain.

I also still use my RSS reader (Inoreader is fantastic) to keep up with blogs and industry news. RSS is free, open, well-established, and easy to use. More people should be using it. Anyone can curate their information consumption by choosing which sources to follow, bypassing the filtering and manipulative algorithms of social media platforms.
 

Quetzalcoatl

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Aug 22, 2007
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I've been archiving / saving pages as PDFs for a while now if I come across something I want to retain.

I also still use my RSS reader (Inoreader is fantastic) to keep up with blogs and industry news. RSS is free, open, well-established, and easy to use. More people should be using it. Anyone can curate their information consumption by choosing which sources to follow, bypassing the filtering and manipulative algorithms of social media platforms.
Thanks, I didn't know RSS is still around. I never used it, but I thought that was an old internet thing. I'll check it out.

Going through my bookmarks, some over 15 years old, I was feeling nostalgic for a time when the internet was vast and diverse. It seems now like the internet is small and probably most internet traffic probably goes to the top 20 websites or so. Even Google was better in the old days when it would give you many options for what you're looking for. Now it seems to give you only the biggest sites, even if the search results are only somewhat related to what you're looking for
 

swag

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Sep 23, 2003
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Going through the bookmarks I've saved over the years and 90% of the links are dead. The internet in 2025.
Me too. And just recently. Since Pocket decided to shut down, I ported them all to Raindrop.io and started pruning them. They go back to 2016, which isn't that long ago.

That said, many of them are dead, moved, or paywalled. Archive.org has been a great help though.

Some weird stuff back then... like reading the news from March 2020 just a couple weeks after Covid f'ed everyone up. There were people debating zombie apocalypse scenarios, Lady Gag-a was doing some weird-assed online WHO concert called "One World: Together at Home", and other people said Covid was as good as over because of a Chinese clinical trial on the prescription of chloroquine promised to end it immediately.

The insane crap people did just five years ago...

A blonde won man of the world 2025
Sorry to break this to you, but those dudes aren't dudes. They're synthetic androids with zero junk down there save for a smooth plastic bump.

I mean, just look at that lipstick and teeth whitening....

I've been archiving / saving pages as PDFs for a while now if I come across something I want to retain.

I also still use my RSS reader (Inoreader is fantastic) to keep up with blogs and industry news. RSS is free, open, well-established, and easy to use. More people should be using it. Anyone can curate their information consumption by choosing which sources to follow, bypassing the filtering and manipulative algorithms of social media platforms.
I went back to Feedly for RSS reading too in the past month. So bizarre. So much of digital tech has been so enshittified, going back to old tools has felt liberating to me.
 

Siamak

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Me too. And just recently. Since Pocket decided to shut down, I ported them all to Raindrop.io and started pruning them. They go back to 2016, which isn't that long ago.

That said, many of them are dead, moved, or paywalled. Archive.org has been a great help though.

Some weird stuff back then... like reading the news from March 2020 just a couple weeks after Covid f'ed everyone up. There were people debating zombie apocalypse scenarios, Lady Gag-a was doing some weird-assed online WHO concert called "One World: Together at Home", and other people said Covid was as good as over because of a Chinese clinical trial on the prescription of chloroquine promised to end it immediately.

The insane crap people did just five years ago...



Sorry to break this to you, but those dudes aren't dudes. They're synthetic androids with zero junk down there save for a smooth plastic bump.

I mean, just look at that lipstick and teeth whitening....



I went back to Feedly for RSS reading too in the past month. So bizarre. So much of digital tech has been so enshittified, going back to old tools has felt liberating to me.
Right, hardly can find a natural like @Bjerknes. His genetic is rare.
 

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