Web Surfing Losing Its Luster

asv108 writes "The New York Times has an article about how trolling the web is not nearly as much fun as it used to be. Reasons for the decline cited in the article include: commercialization, lack of compelling content, instant messaging, P2P, and the fact that it's been mainstream for a couple of years now. The average online session decreased from 90 (March 2000) to 83 minutes in March of 2001." It'll be interesting to see where the Net fits in relative to TV and movies for pure entertainment.

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Broad band is bullshit, has noting to do with it.

[Erris]

"Broadband" what shit. Most "Broadband" "service" providers, as opposed to ISPs, are busy adding to the problems hinted at by the New York Times article, THAT THERE ARE FEWER NEW INTERESTING SITES BECAUSE TOO MANY ASSHOLES HAVE GOTTEN IN THE WAY. My cable provider blocks port 80 and 25. The stupid terms of service forbid all "servers". So, while people might think the Yellow Buss site (random pictures taken from my 1970 VW van) would be interesting, I can't offer it. The NYT article blames this vaugly on comercialization but completely misses the underlying problems of federal regulation encouraged media consolidation and Microsoft's abusive practices.

There are few people willing to wage the fight to present interesting content. Those that hold the keys to access are either owned by hollywood or are interested in making a buck off your ideas more than entertaining and sharing. If you are lucky or smart enough to get around that ass pain, then most people won't be able to look at your more interesting content anyway because M$ will break anything but the latest activeX crap. So why bother? Let all the greedheads suffer in their lack of creativity.

Sorry, but I'm keeping my little ftp site quiet and among friends. I'd like to share more, but I'd be shut down fast by the same dumb ass company that gave me a user name with an @, at, character in the midle of the username and who's tech told me I should use Outlook because Mozilla was "internet unfriendly"!

"Broadband" as presented by the senator from Disney will push more crap at you and further destroy the web.

Have a nice day, folks.