=Modern Internet is shit=

The internet landscape nowadays is rapidly evolves everyday, like
making newspaper articles. In the past century, we made amazing
feats like flying or landing in the moon. You might consider the
counterculture revolution to be influencial. But none of those
compared to the World Wide Web or the Web in shorter terms.

So a bit of history here, but here's a story on how was web
created. It all starts in mid to late 1980s where software makes
hyperlinks to certain things like help or documentation. One day,
Sir Tim-Berners Lee was researching something. He was creating
the first web server. Then in 1989, he actually made a HTTP
server to connect to a client. Months followed and he laid the
groundwork of what the Web would essentially become. In 1990,
he created WorldWideWeb for NextSTEP (later renamed to Nexus to
avoid confusion with the Web itself), which is the first ever
browser, server program and a WYSIWYG HTML editor. Later, with
an assist from an intern, they made Line Mode Browser. It was
included into libwww, which gave foundations to other browsers
to come. One of them is Lynx, as it is the oldest browser to
still be maintained, and one of the popular text browsers.

The next step of the creation and sparking the WWW boom. Some
guys at NCSA were seeing VoilaWWW, one of early browsers. Then
two guys was interested into making something like it, so they
made Mosaic. It was originally for the X Window System for Unix
based systems but later ported to Mac OS and Windows. One of the
creators left NCSA, asked some guy at Silicon Graphics, and four
University students to make Netscape Navigator (originally called
Mosaic, then Mosaic Netscape then simply Netscape after some
treats from NCSA because they were using the Mosaic name), which
is the intial foundation of Mozilla Firefox. The Mosaic browser
was also licensed to Microsoft via Spyglass (which is more like
a reseller), which became Internet Explorer. The rest is history.

Now back to the current times. The Web, just like I said before is
constantly evolving every single day. More websites being created,
more buying domains, more hosting their own website. This rapid
evolution wasn't like having no consquences, no no no.

I'm introducing to you three things: hidden surveilance, Web3
and crypto, and what is Yesterweb.

==Hidden surveilance==

Now, you might think, wait a minute, what do you mean in hidden
surveilance?

Hidden surveilance in this context, is sneaky trackers hidden
in cookies or the website itseof to gather more data from you,
essentially making an almost complete profile of you. Your age,
sexuality, interests, everything. The main bad guys of this was
Google and Facebook (now called Meta). Google might be popular
but the main source of it's revenue was Google Ads. Ads in
todays world, is like an overattractive girlfiend, following
your steps like what are doing, what purchases do you made,
what searches do you made, what videos do watch etc. Facebook
on the other hand is a social media platform as we know it, but
nowadays it's more like a flytrap. You browse your Facebook feed,
you might see ads for something they thinks you want.

Here's an example: You chatted your friend, asking about buying
a SNES.  Later on, you saw ads on Facebook for a SNES, and related
stuff. Scary right? The problem is, that companies make it vague
about their belief on your privacy, for example Apple. Apple do
protect their user's privacy, but at what cost? The other problem
is those big tech companies lobby hard to keep their scummy
pratices. I could see a "US gov't vs.  Microsoft" lawsuit again,
but they would be not be put in jail. Google on the other hand,
has a parent company, Alphabet Inc. They're the second largest
internet company in the world and Google by itself is the largest
and widely used search engine. But the things are looking bright,
like the time FCC sees Meta's strange behavior, and more stuff.

==Web3 and crypto==

Web3 was coined by the co founder of Ethereum, it is supposed
to be a decentralized online ecosystem with the same tech as
crypto and NFTs.  Now the problem was this, they're going to
restrict freedom in the current Web.

The problem was into enviromental suistainability, the problems
with the crypto community itself and artificial scarity,
among others.

Now we delve into a topic that is a buzzword since 2021: non
fungible tokens. Non fungible tokens or NFTs in layman's terms
was an unique photo of something (for example, apes), and trying
to sell their digital signature. It's more like buying the deed
for a land, not the land itself. The main problems of NFTs are
the sheer enviromental impact.  Mining crypto requires a lot of
computential power, since mining crypto was mainly done into a
graphics card. Mining crypto in general produces a lot of heat
and it is a waste of electricity, some even bought power plants
for mining crypto. The enviromental im,pact of NFTs and crypto
in general is pretty massive.

The worser form of NFTs were NFT games. I must admit, people in
my family does play them, but I can't do something to change
their minds.  NFT games are popular, due to the success of
Axie Infinity months ago.  Axie Infinity is a game where you
strategically place cards, so your Axies can deal damage to the
enemies. But the application process is a convoluted by itself,
first you must get a "scholarship", wait for it to be approved,
then set up your Ronin Wallet and Axie Infity account, with your
starter Axies, after that download the game from the official
website, then play. Initial hype was massive, it was featured in
a local TV show called "Kapuso Mo, Jessica Soho". The initial
price of SLP back then was staggering high, but nowadays, it's
on rock bottom. That points to the next problem about NFTs.

My next point about NFTs is the early adopters and whales (note
that keyword), since those people is the high priority in crypto
projects.  Those people has higher chances of being rich. It's
like a Ponzi scheme in a way, where the top (early adopters abd
whales) getting the most money out of crypto while people in the
bottom will get no money to becoming almost bankrupt. It's like
the economic ladder, and you wouldn't get into the top.

The other thing about crypto and NFTs in particular, is creating
artificial scaricity. Artificial scaricity is the act of creating
scaricity out of an infinite resource. Since a normal jpeg file
can be downloaded, copied, and reuploaded, the crypto guys made
some artificial scaricity by the "proof of work" concept, which
in layman's term, just the digital signature of the original
work. This line of random letters is important but there's a
lot of exploits on that concept. The one thing NFT bros hate
is screenshotting NFTs. This would make the image essentially
worthless.

There's many projects those are attacking crypto and Web3. One of
them is Extremely Fungible Tokens, which is made by the omotone
guy and there's Yesterweb, which I'll talk about in a bit.

NFTs and Web3 was essentially making web private, like Nestlé
tries to privatize water, I mean web is more just a fad nowadays,
as this is now essential in this pandemic situation, like for
example, learning or work from home. This whole thing is the
main fundemental of the metaverse, which is straight out 1984
itself because you will never know what happen to your data.

==Yesterweb community==

The Yesterweb community was comprised of average people who uses
internet and make actually cool stuff than corporate shit. These
guys believes the internet is community driven, That's what the
internet is all about. creativity. Most websites by the 90s are
full of crazy things like GIF animations and wacky buttons. The
community on Discord is fun, the discussions are good enough
and the community itself is pretty good.  You can also make goo
sites if you know some basic HTML and CSS! You might learn some
ideas on your own website! If you want to join this community,
check out their website!

They have a links directory, a radio, a zine and many, many
interesting stuff! It is the community that you should join if
you want the web to still be free!

That's all that I can talk about today, I might update my website
and stuff but see you then!