You have reached the end of the internet (2006) (hmpg.net)

Fark and cracked in about 2007 were peak post development, profit motivated Internet. Homestar runner and albino black sheep (shout out to flashback for many fun dmt experiences) in about 2004 was peak fun Internet.

Interesting how internet boosters in the late 90s/early 2000s told us the internet would revitalize democracy by making it so anyone could publish. I'm not aware of a single cynic who successfully predicted how things actually ended up turning out. Nor have I seen much of an attempt to revisit those early predictions.

The high point was the original useless pages (especially the uselessness of pi.) Its been downhill since then.

A good friend of mine, god honest truth, met his now-wife on Fark less than three years ago. Sure is somethin.

Do you realise we have never had 'democracy' - we have 'representative democracy', a totally different thing. Thousands, perhaps millions of people, vote once every 4-5 years for one person to represent them on thousands of governmental decisions. That person is under no constraints to do what they said to gain your vote either - they can do the exact opposite with no repercussion.

Voting as we have it, is a highly abstract, meta "democracy", with 'the will of the people' effecting a meaningless level of force on the tiller. As per the design.

I still don't understand what happened to stumbledupon. That was INTERNET! for me.

A new Strongbad email was published within the last month, to the surprise of probably everyone left who remembers Homestar Runner. The fun stuff is still out there; it's just not the only stuff there (and never was), and there's probably a lot more of that non-fun stuff too.

I used to work on a CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework) integration for an in-house multimedia platform that was kind of like a game engine with distributed real-time rendering. We used https://html5zombo.com routinely to smoke-test: the animation and audio together made it easy to tell when machines were getting out of sync, or when we weren't pushing frames fast enough, or when the audio was broken (as pulseaudio and CEF version updates would often do). Good times.

Can even get it in a single rack if you use SSDs

In 6 weeks that'll be 20 years ago.. how did 20 years disappear like that?

I'm pretty sure the page itself has existed before then, just at a different location. For example, here's a page from 2000 that's in the Internet Archive that looks kind of similar: https://web.archive.org/web/20000115232652/http://www.shibum...

It occurs to me that downloading e.g. llama.cpp kind of is like downloading the whole internet? Or a very lossy-compressed version of it.

With a 100 Gbps connection, it would take 21.3 days, so it needs to get about 21x better than that.

Makes sense for the last guy to be a gooner, that's why the internet was born!