"The level of creativity and versatility on display on your average Geocities site is hard to understate. Most were a cross between amateur experiments and love letters to this or that piece of pop culture. They were plastered with recipes, vacation photos, esoteric images, and tidbits of slash fiction."
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Love this! A 22-page DIY web archiving zine that "shows you why everyone should participate in preserving the things on the web they care about, and how anyone can do so (no special expertise required!)".
https://zinebakery.com/homemade-zines/bakeshop-2-diywebarchiving
#internet #TheWeb #archiving #WebArchiving
Made by @quinnanya, @Literature_Geek, and bunch of other awesome folks, found via @lavaeolus https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113873744698219704
Remember those "best experienced with [browser name]" badges?
"MTV's revamped World Wide Web site for MTV contains a heavy amount of original music content and a unique Web browser design. [...] Some of the site's best content, including a grossly appealing game with Beavis & Butt-head, is designed exclusively for Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser."
https://cybercultural.com/p/browser-war-1990s/
#internet #TheWeb #InternetHistory #technology #cyberculture
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I believe it is one of our missions, as antifascist nerds, to break the myth of an inaccessible and complex technology. The tools, services, and software we all use everyday are the more or less indirect outcome of broader socio-political and economical dynamics. Therefore, we can and we should bring forward a massive resistance as we do on other fronts.
How do we do burst the bubble?
How can we practically unmask the politicality of technology to people outside the digital sector?
How do we popularize digital media critique?
What forms of art, workshops, and formats could take advantage of?
On Wed 11 June, at 14:00 UTC, I will be hosting an online round-table session with @transparenttech to discuss and try to answer these questions.
I will be briefly sharing my experience and my ideas after making Knitting Our Internet. Above all, though, I want to welcome any kind of contributions to address this mission in a multifaceted, intercultural, intersectional, and decolonial way.
Free attendance! Register here ⬅️
#OurNet #CITR #IndependentTech #IndependentTechnology #Technology #PoliticalTechnology #KnittingOurInternet #Internet #InternetCritique #Fediverse
"Relational creation means recognizing the value that others have brought to you, and wanting to acknowledge it publicly. That means crediting… that means linking."
https://tracydurnell.com/2025/01/27/the-open-web-as-gift-economy-part-4/
I probably already mentioned it, but https://www.deadweb.club is a pretty interesting project that aims to connect people interested in exploring "defunct social media platforms, abandoned 3D worlds, and forgotten blogs".
Their newsletter hasn't been very active, but they just announced a new member joining the team, so definitely worth (re-)subscribing.
"This is, after all, the ephemeral truth of the Internet: if you don’t save it, even if it seems like it’s everywhere momentarily, it will just as quickly disappear."
#internet #TheWeb #InternetArchive #DigitalPreservation #archiving
"There were very few websites that went beyond text at the start of '94, so to begin with people didn't quite know what to make of [Internet Underground Music Archive]."
https://cybercultural.com/p/iuma-1994/
#music #history #MusicHistory #internet #TheWeb #InternetHistory #InternetUndergroundMusicArchive #IUMA
I think large social networks should verify users. It's like getting a driver's licence. If you don't want to verify your identity, you can, but you won't see content from unverified individuals and your content won't be visible to others.
The only problem is implementation. We need a system that chooses what data to transfer (name and age) and how.
Everything we write on open social networks should be something we can say on the street.
"The key to [Beverly Hills Internet]'s initial growth over 1995 was helping people who had no technical knowledge of HTML to build a web page on the internet. It offered a “Personal GeoPage Generator” that enabled homesteaders to easily create a home page.
But more than that, and as the name for its users implied, Bohnett wanted to give people the sense that they had a home on the internet."
You are invited to join my new mailing list for people interested in internet resiliency clubs:
https://lists.bowshock.nl/mailman/listinfo/irc
I also updated the internet resiliency club HOWTO with some more hardware info and links to talks:
Suggestions and corrections welcome!
It was on this day 36 years ago when @timbl submitted his proposal to CERN for an "information management system", precursor to the World Wide Web.
"In the proposal, Berners-Lee modestly spoke of wanting to use hypertext, a.k.a. links, to help CERN deal with information storage issues.
[...]
His boss’s response?
“Vague, but exciting.”"
https://www.vox.com/2019/3/12/18260709/30th-anniversary-world-wide-web-google-doodle-history
#OTD #OnThisDay #internet #TheWeb #history #VagueButExciting
"At the beginning of 1995, the internet was still largely the domain of academic-minded geeks and Silicon Valley hippies. But the culture at large was increasingly taking notice of cyberspace.
Throughout 1995, millions more people went online and thousands of companies bought “dot com” domain names.
The web was now open for business."
"This exercise got me thinking about the ways we attempt to be present and to feel the presence of others in online spaces. I often find myself turning to the Internet when I feel most alone, seeking ways to feel connected to others; to feel seen by others."
✨📱 L’@arcep est fière d’annoncer le lancement de la nouvelle version de « Mon réseau mobile » : https://www.arcep.fr/actualites/actualites-et-communiques/detail/n/reseaux-mobiles-080725.html
Visitez la nouvelle version notre outil cartographique pour connaître la couverture et la qualité de service de votre opérateur : https://monreseaumobile.arcep.fr/
#cartographie #réseaux #réseauxmobile #géomatique #téléphonemobile #internet #usagesmobiles
"This page has expired. Please click refresh."
Oh? It smelled fine to me.
#web #internet #DarkPatterns #surveillance
Oh? It smelled fine to me.
#web #internet #DarkPatterns #surveillance
#tech #comic #webcomic #internet #browser #polandball #countryball #searchengine #europe #america #usa #meme
Didn't take anytime with it and didn't give it much effort, but it's an original by me. Why make it? Idk. The balls are easy I guess. The joke/message is pretty basic too. I guess I'm just testing the waters before putting effort into any real artistic endeavours.
I sort of gave up on this awhile ago, but there's a lot of nerds here so I thought I'd ask: can anyone find a minecraft seed with just a description of around where structures are and other surrounding information? There was a world very dear to me, but my friend that was hosting got bored, deleted it, and refused to give me the seed. I'd do anything to see my village again.
#minecraft #bedrock #tech #technology #videogames #internet #help
My great failure in life is that I never put myself in a position to monetise being this embarrassingly incompetent.
#auspol #australia #government #internet #censorship #children #ai #privacy #erotica #pornography https://rssfeed.media/@abcfeeds/114830436092858870
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"Most often, I tend to locate the web’s significance in something that feels concrete: in pirate libraries, censorship circumvention, collective knowledge projects, and open data. One thing I think the web does very well [...] is to collapse a lot of things — people, times, places, images, writing — into one place, together."
"It’s strange to think that streaming a song in stereo was so revolutionary back then, but that was the state of the art in online media circa 1996."
"There were no books on web design, no best practices."
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-innovative-designs-of-1995/
Happy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it".
> The key legal question here is: Does modifying how a website displays through browser-side tools like ad blockers count as breaking the [copyright] law?
This is ridiculous. There are so many ways to display a #webpage. So, would using custom #CSS also violate the #law? Or using a browser like Lynx that just shows the text? Or viewing raw HTML? If anything, it's the raw #code that should be copyrighted. #ad #adblock #legal #internet #netzpolitik #browser #copyright
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