OMG THIS IS AN AWESOME SOLUTION TO #GDPR - BACK TO 1996! pic.twitter.com/WZSXPbneN2 — Alec Muffett (@AlecMuffett) May 24, 2018 Going back to text-mode internet sounds more and more appealing every day. Maybe the French were right with Minitel being sufficient and filling the rest of their lives with delicious food, wine, family, art snobbery, cinéma.

I remain hopeful that a second, less image-y, less ad-y internet will emerge.

I said:

RT @samim: “The Case For RSS”: RSS needs a comeback. Twitter is basically a glorified realtime RSS reader.

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Going back to text-mode internet sounds more and more appealing every day. Maybe the French were right with Minitel being sufficient and filling the rest of their lives with delicious food, wine, family, art snobbery, cinéma.

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I even have a long form essay about it. Lest you think I’m screaming into the void (well, maybe I am, but I’m not doing it alone). I found this wonderful article from a kindred spirit, Marc:

I firmly believe the Internet, and what it stood for, peaked with RSS…

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