i'm bored

you know, or maybe you don't, i am a computer geek from way back. Back in 94 when the World Wide Web was released to the public, i was there. i had already been a 5 year veteran of the command line internet days.
i was logging in, using gopher and archie to find the information i wanted. I had compuserve too, and i remember the first time i downloaded a picture of a naked lady off of the internet.

it took 30 minutes.

lets be clear here. I am talking about the days 14.4k baud

I am not talking about DSL, or even 56k modems, (not 33.6 or 28.8 either).
I started at something less than 14.4k and don't remember much until the 14.4s came out.

after that, i paid compuserve and netcom both for accounts.
things moved along until 94 when the WWW was released.

back then when dialed up it was a serial connection. a terminal. there was no dynamically assigned IP address, there was no IP address shortage potential.

netcom didn't have SLIP protocol yet
or PPP

while on netcom though, someone came up with TIA
the Internet Adapter
and netcom supported it.
I bought a license.

it was cheap and it was a shared install, and it worked.
it was cool, and i don't know what happened to it, but TIA faked a SLIP connection.

oh, that's Serial Line Internet Protocol. I wonder what happened to it?

PPP kind of came after SLIP
soon, providers were offering true PPP connections (with BootP, oooooohhhhhh)

and you could use the internet, and the new world wide web.

people started creating pages (thankfully this was before IE and before the blink and marquee tags from MS)
pages back then were text based primarily, and the information was actually useful. it was neat, and somehow or another i got paid to learn about new technology.
I was still dialing in.

i would spend hours looking at INFORMATION, not crap like MySpace. there wasn't crap like myspace.

so where i used to be able to jump on the internet and look up information that i was interested in and spend HOURS doing i, and being interested in it, today, i am bored, i jump on the internet, and i am bored.
You know, you just can't find good information about what you are interested in, on the internet these days.

why is this.

well, my best guess is this.
people want their crap to be seen, and by crap, i mean crap, so they pay listing services to get them linked, increase their rankings. that's great, but their content isn't. the problem is, the good information, mostly from educational sources, doesn't get backing to pay for listing, thus their data ends up past page 3.

page 3, there is another point, people are either too trusting, or too lazy to look for actually relevant data. if it isn't on the first 3 pages of results in their search, it isn't going to be seen.

a whole insidious industry has sprung up to make your page appear on page 1 or 2 for money, even if it isn't really relevant.

I want a search engine that allows peer review of the results.

if i click a link on a search results page, i actually want it to load in a framed window, with a rating scale at the top.
if that site is totally irrelevant to what i was searching for, i want to be able to tell them so.

Is that so bad?

yeah, this is a little bit of a ramble, but it lead somewhere didn't it?
peer review of results.
please

when i search for information on kites, i don't want the first page of results to be myspace kids that like kites.
i want to learn to sew them.