From: mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere   
      
   Ben Collver  writes:   
      
   > How To Use The Internet Again: A Curriculum   
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   >   
   > by Brooklyn Gibbs, Oct 23, 2025   
   > You can't call it the "online world" if you never leave your feed. If   
   > your entire internet life happens inside TikTok, Instagram, YouTube,   
   > Reddit, or Twitter, you're simply mall-walking, and malls are fine:   
   > predictable, climate-controlled, food courts and chain stores on   
   > every corner, but don't mistake the mall for the city.   
      
   Huh.  I had no idea.   
      
   > The city is bigger, stranger, full of alleys, basements, and hidden   
   > doors. That's the real internet, and you haven't been there in a   
   > while.   
      
   I delivered a seminar in 1994 for non-techie net-newbies that used   
   that very metaphor.  Sic transit gloria mundi.   
      
   > 2. Inspect the Skeleton.   
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   >   
   > In the early web, you could peek at source code and literally learn   
   > how the site was built. That hasn't gone away entirely, but fewer   
   > people bother to look. Right-click --> View Source or Inspect. You'll   
   > find hidden gems: commented-out code, forgotten links, even easter   
   > eggs....Even Substack has a hidden easter egg buried in its   
   > code. Looking where you're not expected to is the essence of rabbit   
   > holing.   
      
   Nearly everything is now overwhelmingly javascript.  Even Google   
   Search now demands that you enable js and nags you every time about "do   
   you want to log in?"   
      
      
   --   
   Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada   
      
   The command line is like language.  The touchscreen GUI is like shopping.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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