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Hello. I am very glad you have kept this site running all these years, R51. And the forum as well. You may remember me from the FFG days, and I did have an account on here with a different name, though I can't seem to recover it. No worries. I have left that moniker behind.

I yearn for web 1.0. Web 2.0 was a travesty and web 3.0 has become a monster of which I cannot understand. I thought Reddit would remain a safe-haven but even that has devolved into bots and non-sense, and even if it never was a place to write home about, it still held that web 1.0 feeling for a while.

Anyway, I hope all is well with the people who still actively post here. Cheers!

I did wonder if it was the same person when I saw that account get created. Happy to still be here and to get the intermittent post now and again.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

Welcome back, glad to see you! I can't figure out who you were, but it probably doesn't matter. Just glad to see more folks here.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Web 1.0 was retroactively coined when someone wanted to brand "Web 2.0", and refers to static webpages while Web 2.0 refers to dynamically-generated content. By that definition, CoN would be Web 2.0, heh. Web 3.0, last I heard, was the attempt at branding blockchain-based stuff like cryptocurrencies and NFTs, and frankly I kinda hate that. And now that AI is the new hotness, I dunno what's gonna happen with that branding.

But yeah, I get what you mean. I love that there are sites that still operate things like standalone forums in what now (sadly) feels like a classic style, and I also love that CoN continues to be a high-quality resource for players of these excellent games.

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Tim O'Reilly (the guy from all the books with the lineart of critters on them) was behind the name "Web 2.0" and meant it more for the rise of community-based web content, which definitely makes CoN a site that straddles the line between 1.0 and 2.0 - I remember Wired picked up on the term a couple years after that when social media as we know it now was starting to become a thing on the horizon. In short, it's less about the technologies themselves and more about how people use them.

To digress, anyone who uses Web 3.0 with a straight face is not someone I really want to interact with in any meaningful way.

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"To create something great, you need the means to make a lot of really bad crap." - Kevin Kelly

Why aren't you shopping AmaCoN?

Quote (Glenn Magus Harvey @ 20th October 2025 10:18)

Welcome back, glad to see you!  I can't figure out who you were, but it probably doesn't matter.  Just glad to see more folks here.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think Web 1.0 was retroactively coined when someone wanted to brand "Web 2.0", and refers to static webpages while Web 2.0 refers to dynamically-generated content.  By that definition, CoN would be Web 2.0, heh.  Web 3.0, last I heard, was the attempt at branding blockchain-based stuff like cryptocurrencies and NFTs, and frankly I kinda hate that.  And now that AI is the new hotness, I dunno what's gonna happen with that branding.

But yeah, I get what you mean.  I love that there are sites that still operate things like standalone forums in what now (sadly) feels like a classic style, and I also love that CoN continues to be a high-quality resource for players of these excellent games.

I used Dynamic Threads as a moniker here a few years back, but I was Rinjin from Final Fantasy Gurus, where R51 and I used to post back in the early 2000's.

Anyway, the way I always saw it was this:

We had the "proto-web" which was when the internet was first invented. Web 1.0 was basically your traditional dial-up internet, and yes, this forum is a holdover from those days. Where you had a lot of static webpages and message boards. Gamefaqs is a classic Web 1.0 example. Wikipedia started in the late stages of this era.

Web 2.0 was the rise of social media platforms, such as Myspace, Facebook and the like. It was before the prevalence of smartphones. Web 2.0 hit it's peak with the widespread use of smartphones and the plethora of social media platforms after Facebook - Your twitters, Instagrams and what-not.

Web 3.0 is the "dead internet" and block-chain internet, as you mentioned. It is dominated by ads, AI and bots. It includes the overabundance of social media apps and platforms, mobile gaming and the death of your more traditional internet browsing in favor of a news feed that is saturated by curated content and misinformation/disinformation.

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To digress, anyone who uses Web 3.0 with a straight face is not someone I really want to interact with in any meaningful way.

The correct pronunciation for "Web 3.0" is "enshittification".

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Check the "What games are you playing at the moment?" thread for updates on what I've been playing.

You can find me on the Fediverse! I use Mastodon, where I am @[email protected] ( https://sakurajima.moe/@glennmagusharvey )

Thank you for not being gone.

Every other forum has died or become inactive beyond repair.

Wikipedia has ruined everything.

Reddit has gone from a decent source to a white male hating cesspool.

And I am to blame.

This comment I just made is literally worse than Hitler and Stalin and even worse than the Lostprophets guy!

This post has been edited by Electricbassguy on 8th November 2025 20:06

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Targeted individual Jesse Radin

Not sure how Wikipedia is to blame; as for databases of information, if anything, sites like CoN are competing more directly against the many Fandom wikis.

But I think forums in general got largely replaced by a combination of Discord servers and Reddit forums. Unfortunately, this means consolidation under few companies that provide such services, rather than a greater variety of communities using more open software like IRC to communicate. I mean, we've seen how the management going to hell basically ruins a site -- take Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter -- yet many people are stuck using it because they feel it's the only game in town for that type of communication.

Sidenote: This is partly why I like the Fediverse. It's open-source *and* it has a network of individually-managed smaller communities. It includes alternatives to Twitter (e.g. Mastodon, Misskey) and Reddit (e.g. Lemmy). Though standalone forums like CoN are still useful when there's no reason for cross-communication.

As for your comment, I don't get your hyperbole about it, though I am guessing it has to do with some of the political flame wars in recent years. Without getting into too much detail, I'd say I disagree that Reddit is any particular kind of cesspool, though; it's kinda a cesspool of everything in those spaces where everyone chimes in with their own opinion on said political flame wars. There's a reason I find it prudent to avoid the larger subreddits. Though I've largely stopped using Reddit these days, for unrelated reasons.



sidenote: oh gosh my CoN messages storage is nearly full at 148/150 messages haha

This post has been edited by Glenn Magus Harvey on 8th November 2025 22:20

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Check the "What games are you playing at the moment?" thread for updates on what I've been playing.

You can find me on the Fediverse! I use Mastodon, where I am @[email protected] ( https://sakurajima.moe/@glennmagusharvey )