[rootusrootus]

In related news, almost everything you can find through a Google search is unmitigated crap. Finding it on Google is an indictment of the quality. Back in the day, something like Wikipedia was what people dreamed the Internet would be. How naive of us.

I half expect to start seeing new incarnations of things like Prodigy or Compuserve spin up, aiming to provide an Internet-within-Internet type of experience. Without advertising, purely pay-to-play. Sure, a lot of regular people will never pay for such a thing, but I bet there are enough of us that will pay for good quality content (and shielding from crap) that it could be viable. Maybe the 'net gets balkanized and the 'free' part left as a wasteland.

(or maybe I'm just a grumpy old man and I should go get a cup of coffee and quit my bitching)

[tomjakubowski]

> Finding it on Google is an indictment of the quality. Back in the day, something like Wikipedia was what people dreamed the Internet would be.

Well there is good news: Wikipedia is still around and it's as good as ever.

I share your sentiments about Google results. I've thought before about setting myself up a little terminal which denies access to everything on the web besides Wikipedia and .edu. That's where most of the good stuff online is. (ok, maybe Atlas Obscura and Sheldon Brown's bicycle page are allowed too)