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PC Gamer
Wes Fenlon

Google is desperate for us to forget the simple joy of the original internet: Links

Google search with a kaomoji offering a friendly gesture.

Until I found the website ooh.directory last year, I hadn't really understood, completely, how malnourished my internet diet had become. I still had some bookmarks I visited everyday, and the social media feed I checked (too often) for breaking news and interesting stories. But only when I made a conscious effort for the first time in a decade to fill up an RSS reader with bloggers, critics, news sources, and even webcomics did I realize that I'd lost track of the original, primal joy of the internet:

Clicking a link and finding a whole new world unfurl before me, as fast as my dial-up modem or DSL connection could load it in.

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