oh geez don't get me started on search engines lol . used to be you could text search for literally anything. I got online in 1994 I think it was. I eventually worked for ZDNet and then Cnet in their windows help forums, basically got paid to moonlight doing what I started out doing for free- helping newbies deal with windows 3.11. Those companies really set money on fire back then lol It lasted about a year or two before they realized no-one was going to get rich out of thin air. Later they realized patents and selling personal data and helping government rob their people was the way to go.
The AltaVista search engine let you do a true Boolean search, using parentheses and search terms. I could zero in on what I wanted with drone-like accuracy. Then Google came along with its idiot-simple search algorithm. AltaVista was bought by Yahoo, which tossed out AltaVista's search engine and replaced it with Yahoo's feckless search. Why? Why do they deliberately dumb things down?
well, you know why. it sucks. I remember thinking as each new version of windows came out, how it got progressively more childish, until it is virtually preschool with the big colored squares. Of course half the public can't rise above infantile thought, so there you have it!
I just got a new laptop with Windows 10. The directory structure drives me crazy. I can only conclude that the UI is designed either by or for those with no grasp of basic logic.
oh geez don't get me started on search engines lol . used to be you could text search for literally anything. I got online in 1994 I think it was. I eventually worked for ZDNet and then Cnet in their windows help forums, basically got paid to moonlight doing what I started out doing for free- helping newbies deal with windows 3.11. Those companies really set money on fire back then lol It lasted about a year or two before they realized no-one was going to get rich out of thin air. Later they realized patents and selling personal data and helping government rob their people was the way to go.
The AltaVista search engine let you do a true Boolean search, using parentheses and search terms. I could zero in on what I wanted with drone-like accuracy. Then Google came along with its idiot-simple search algorithm. AltaVista was bought by Yahoo, which tossed out AltaVista's search engine and replaced it with Yahoo's feckless search. Why? Why do they deliberately dumb things down?
well, you know why. it sucks. I remember thinking as each new version of windows came out, how it got progressively more childish, until it is virtually preschool with the big colored squares. Of course half the public can't rise above infantile thought, so there you have it!
I just got a new laptop with Windows 10. The directory structure drives me crazy. I can only conclude that the UI is designed either by or for those with no grasp of basic logic.