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World Wide Web Fractal Representation

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Bending The Light

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Yesterday i was trying really hard to find something "hard to find" at a local store. OK. I searched for the product name on the web and Mr.Google was nice enough to give me an option to find a local store. I opened their web site and looked for the product. But then surprise. I could not find it in their inventory. I called and spoke to clueless, young, untrained CS reps. I gave up after a few iterations like this and a couple of hours.

The same with the big store chains. Not all the items in the stores are on their web site. You have to call them the old fashioned way or go there.

People don't have time and money to update their web sites. Many small business sites look like the only reason they exist is for people to see they have a web site. Many medium size business don't have the inventory on the web.

Computers, networks and internet are only as good as the data on them is accurate. If not it's a huge waste of time and money.

Talking about the news sites. They too often copy articles from each other with no big differences. Usually it all comes from the same source with insignificant but sometimes confusing variations. More younger, inexperienced people write the news and it really looks like they can't do anything but their boss's will.

Let's face it. Internet is not progressing the way we expected. It's been too many stagnant years. The speed has been overcame by the humongousness of the newer software and sites and it takes about the same time to load a news or a store site as in the past.

Don't wanna go into the mess of "social networks" but enough to say the're not our second life, not even our first, but another still new source of emotions, that sometimes are positive and sometimes it turns into a continuous troll watch. One more reason to worry and sometimes to hope. But those times are getting rarer.

With a few exceptions, like Google and Wikipedia, internet isn't going anywhere. But i bet it's useful to some people. The ones that track what you're doing, how many times you click and how fast you type. The ones that are filling your screen with targeted adds after only daring to search for a product. And there are serious doubts in my mind that they do not stop here and sometimes our most intimate and vital info is shuffling within the above pictured fractals and clouds in real time and totally unfriendly places.