It was strange being there at the dawn of time, to see Google utterly displace Yahoo.

We were on conenctions barely faster than dial up and Yahoo’s homepage was a complete clusterfuck of everything you didn’t care about. Weather for somewhere else, celebrity “news”, sports in another country. And all you wanted to do was look up a way to run some very dangerous unchecked SQL in PHP.

Google was just search. Nothing else. And it was so fast. You could have that potential SQL injection so much faster there.

And the sad thing is with phones and browsers defaulting to it, and even the word “googling” (I don’t remember ever Yahooing anything), it’s probably here to stay with it’s terrible addiction to ads and AI. Won’t be long before I’m served glue at a pizzeria.

Not for long anyway.

I tend to agree. The right time to build nuclear was like 30 years ago.

The same people who opposed it then are the same people saying it’s the future now. If anybody agrees to build it, the you’ll have 15-20 years of renewable energy being cancelled because the “nuclear is on the way”.

Itchy… Tasty…

And it passes the Acid3 test, which is more than Firefox does.

They’re beaming electromagnetic waves into your eyes, man!

As he counts his money.

Half of them aren’t in China though. It’s dropshippers, so you still get your cheap death traps, but you get them in a few days, Amazon get their enormous cut, and they get to take no responsibility when it burns your house down.

Shit, most of Amazon is that as well.

And the product thumbnails that all look like sex toys.

Yeah, it’s the reason I cancelled Amazon the day they announced that, while Netflix shambles on.

If they haven’t been doing so for at least a decade, I’m sure their shareholders will want to know why not.

You’d think so, but who do you think pays huge sums of money every year to be allowed to sell death traps to the public?

But of course. If artists want to fight for their rights, they better get their own lawyers.

Yeah, there’s no real costs, because in this case it’s a cost of “lost opportunity” in advertising.

As a rich westerner, your eyeballs are worth more than some rickshaw driver in deepest darkest India, because you have more money to fritter away on nonsense.

Never understood how the third world pricing logic holds up for things like video games, since the hardware to play them costs pretty much the same no matter where you are.

I gave up trying to figure out what the “bitness” of CPUs were around the time the Atari Jaguar came out and people described it as 64 bit because it had 32 bit graphics chip plus a 32 bit sound chip.

It’s been mostly marketing bollocks since forever.

I’d imagine 60 million dollars to google is like 60 cents to most of us.

Torrenting was blocked on it anyway, as far as I could tell.

If five people can maintain a service bigger than all those combined, then the big streamers need to buck their fucking ideas up.

It’s probably for the best anyway just to protect the rest of us from Jaywick.