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Tom Scocca remembers when the internet was for humans, and he’s got a modest proposal.
What if we made the Internet Archive the real internet and let the machines have Google?
This wouldn’t solve the online shopping problem, and it would make it hard to read the newspapers. But if you wanted to learn about something by looking it up online, you could do it just like you used to. The browser would have a search engine that actually searched its contents, and if you clicked on a result from it, it would take you to the earliest version of the page. A little slider, like on Google Earth, could move you through subsequent versions.
Make the Wayback Machine the real internet.
[indignity.substack.com]
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