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How do you guys remember the early days of the internet? What do you miss about it?
I miss written tutorials. I hate how every tutorial is a YouTube now. I don’t want to watch 15 minutes and forget to pay attention for the second that has the detail that I am missing or it just doesn’t show. Even short tutorials are 3 minutes when it could have been a ten second read. I want to skim a page and go directly to the point. Has writing really become that hard to do?
@bstix @Provider I don't mind some video tutorials. When you're learning a specific technique or it's a more thinky thing, sure. When I'm trying to configure a device/program, or doing builds for characters in a game, yeh, it's bloody annoying.
I'm just thankful the cooking world still relies on written recipes. To the point that almost all recipe articles have a "jump to recipe" button these days. Hell, any video of a recipe worth its salt has a link to a written recipe 
@sortius @bstix @Provider Online recipes as a positive example in this context is just sad. They are buried under as much fluff, nonsense, and ads that they are barely usable and that button should simply not have to exist.
On top of that, they are all stolen from each other and full of errors. They couldn't be worse if ChatGPT were behind them.
@sortius @bstix @Provider By stealing I mean that there are several sites that are literally scraped copies of other big sites. But I'm sure users also copy between sites manually.
Often when I search for a recipe I get literally the same one (including spelling errors and such) in different places, in some cases even with the same user comments.
The experience is much better with smaller sites, of course!
@sortius @bstix @Provider I stumbled upon the "original" recipe for Fettuccine Alfredo a week or two ago. It was pages of exposition about the history of the dish, and then the recipe. First, ingredients: pasta, parmesan, butter.
I didn't read past that. I don't need 20 pages of exposition and 2 pages of recipe for pasta, parmesan, and butter. Just tell me pasta, parmesan, and butter, and I got it from there. Four words and a couple commas. That's it.
@MrF for me the first hit is Recipe Tin Eats, it has a short article before the recipe, and a button at the top to jump to the recipe 