[unishark]

While we're dreaming, the ultimate solution is an artificially intelligent agent that stands between you and the internet and can be instructed to pick out what you like and show it to you. It would ideally serve a variety of different types of users.

The current system basically amounts to loading code from remote servers and running it on your device in a leaky little sandbox, so it's a natural next layer of protection.

[6510]

Maxthon2 could open search results in tabs. Like an upscaled version of the dial up days, one would open a bunch of tabs and let them load. I had it configured to open the first 100 results. It would somewhat prioritize the first page so that you could look at it while page 2 loaded. Eventually it was far ahead loading pages and one could tab though them (mouse gestures) and they would pop up as fast as desktop applications [use to be] There was a different gesture for next page and for close current + next page. I wrote a bunch of plugins [they were called] that are like browser extensions (without any security) They allowed selecting a sniplet of text on a page before making the next gesture. After eliminating the uninteresting pages I could export the remaining tabs (in that window) as a html sniplet with titles as links and the sniplets under them. It upgraded blog posts into pages people could spend hours or even days on.

I remember spending the better part of 15 min making a huge posts about UFO's (by repeating above process with various search queries) without reading much of anything and got comments from people who wondered why I spend so much time gathering all that "information". If I had to make that post using today's tools it would indeed take weeks.