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  "textContent": "Honestly, I believe this topic of the Internet being useful or not nowadays would deserve its own thread somewhere in the off-topic section or whatever. There are [partly] valid opinions on both sides, and it would be interesting to see how it develops, how people actually see what the Internet has become since its early days.\n\nPersonally I'm more and more frustrated with these unwanted delays introduced by bot checks (read somewhere some time ago how ironic it is that a bot asks me to prove I am human), as well as the search results that about 99% of times return precisely the opposite of what I had asked for, and other things more or less subtle that some people may not realize until they're put on the table and dissected.\n\nSometime in the early 2000s while activating with the Miranda IM community someone developed a plug-in that would directly connect two computers over the Internet without the need of a third-party server. We could send to each-other texts and files in real time without the fear that someone else could snoop on us. Privacy 100%. Nowadays the Internet is mostly built over the concept of services. Server and clients. No direct connections between clients. Privacy is a nice albeit hollow word. Same goes for freedom of speech.\n\nMy opinion is that the Internet will shift towards IoT for its most part, leaving humans as mostly observers with little interaction with each-other.\n\n\n> My alternative would be to write a postal letter that can take weeks to arrive.\n\nYes, but she would cherish that letter like nothing else, because it would carry the handwriting that she probably taught you when you were a child, maybe the scent of you as well. It would sit together with all your other letters in a carboard box tucked in a safe place, and from time to time she'd pull one or another out and reread it in nostalgy. Where do electronic messages go? Most likely to the recycle bin. There would be no memory of them. So much of the past is being erased just because of the volatility of the Internet-based interactions.\n\nAncient people wrote their [hi]story in stone, and we are able to read it nowadays. What will be leave for generations to come: magnetic hard-drives that a solar storm could erase in the blink of an eye, and whose data degrades over time even when stored without interaction...? SSDs whose life span is a macabre joke...? Do we even care what we leave behind after we're gone...?\n\nFood for thought.\n\n* * *",
  "title": "General Discussion • Re: Cloudflare Verification Loop issues",
  "updatedAt": "2026-03-14T11:08:16.000Z"
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