The InterneT is ShiT

I found this over the net. And I think it's rubbish.


The internet is shit.

It is vitally important that we all realize this and move on. People (eg Bloggers) go on and on about how wonderful it is. About how much information is out there in cyberspace. About the way that everything is within reach in just a few clicks of their mice.

Oh? Well, if internet IS shit, which it ISN'T, why are you posting this on the net then?? Guess the net has some use after all huh??


For instance:

"If I can operate Google, I can find anything... Google, combined with Wi-Fi, is a little bit like God. God is wireless, God is everywhere and God sees and knows everything. Throughout history, people connected to God without wires. Now, for many questions in the world, you ask Google, and increasingly, you can do it without wires, too."

Alan Cohen, V.P. of Airespace, a new Wi-Fi provider, New York Times, 6/29/03

I can name 20 people from my old school class who aren't in Google. I can walk into any public library, no matter how tiny and underfunded, and find facts, stories, amazing information I would never touch in a month of webcrawling. I can go into a bar and hear stories Usenet hasn't come close to in its 22 years of waffle. "Oh but what about the stuff you CAN get on the web?" the netheads say. But they're missing the point.

Well, having your ass stuck to the computer chair is much better than living in the library isn't it? Or am I wrong? Well, just set up a camp bed and live in the library over a week, without going out of the building. See how you feel. Boring isn't it? Unless you are the blockhead who only lives on books. At least when we have the net access, we can play fun games, as well as do our whatever research we have..

Oh yes, they are not missing the point. They are just pointing out the good point.

While we ascribe every first-world miracle to the electronic age, there's something truly missing that we once had in our grasp: our sense of wonder. Back in 1995, we were surprised, agog when things appeared on the net. People starting going around saying 'wow, this could really become something'. Slowly (very slowly at 16kbps), strange websites, new information, odd diversions and discussions with people around the world appeared in this brave new world. Each time it was met with surprise and delight, even if some of it was deeply obscure and slightly dull. There was no doubting the potential of the medium.

And look what we've done with it. Food wrappers and soap operas now tell us to visit their websites. Money is pumped online by people who can't even spell HTML. All manner of pointless and irritating content is continually poured down the infinite hole of data, unfiltered and over-appreciated. In accepting freedom of speech, we can't hide from its consequences - which in this case is millions of terabytes of unreliable information, badly designed and clumsily written. We have failed our own creation and given birth something truly awful. We're just too busy cooing over the pram to notice.

We need to start again. We need to stop saying how wonderful things are. We need to openly, truthfully and respectfully admit that the internet itself, in almost all of what's been done with it, is shit.

We can just ignore these people who "made our creation into something awful" or can we not?
Internet is NOT shit. It maybe boring at times, when we see the same old thing, but that's not the net's fault isn't it? It's ours. There are more interesting sites out here. We just didn't make time to search for it. If you haven't tried, you'll never know, would you? The fact is, the net IS a wonderful creation. You just did not accept this point of view.

Anyway, 'saying how wonderful things are' is just one of the form of being optimistic.... Or, things ARE wonderful, but that's just one side of how you look at things.

Let me give you one example. Life is wonderful. Agreed? Or not? Well, life IS wonderful, yet life SUCKS. A lot of people keep saying how life sucks, and they mean it, sure. But their hearts don't. Next time when you hear someone saying life sucks, tell them to end their life by jumping of the building. I dare say that person value his or her life too much to kill him/herself on purpose.

It's funny really. All my friends who do not have the internet are DYING to have it, yet this 'internet-is-shit' person hates it. This is the first person I've come across the net, who ironically, hate the net. Weird.