"Interaction on the Web is a little like a mirror, like communicating with a manifestation of yourself. Because it is so chaotic, so decentralised, I find that using the Web becomes like communicating with a hardware version of me. It’s not exactly a doppelgänger, but an alternative version of myself."
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"By the end of 2000, the web had settled into a strange dual state: the financial euphoria of the dot-com boom was gone, yet the culture of the web had never felt more alive."
The Wayback Machine was launched 24 years ago!
"The Wayback Machine has a pulse, rhythmic and steady as it loops endlessly through the spaces of the web."
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/archiving-the-web/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine
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"Nettime has been widely recognized for its seminal role stimulating and disseminating ideas about Netzkritik or Net Critique, net.art, and tactical media and pioneered practices such as "collaborative filtering"."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettime
The internet mailing list Nettime was created in 1995, 30 years ago.
https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9510/msg00000.html
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"Geocities [which launched in November 1994] has a fascinating history. A roaring beginning, a dramatic climax, the most tragic of endings, and just a sprinkle of hope right at the end."
"On 12 November 1990 [Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau] published a formal proposal outlining principal concepts and defining important terms behind the web. The document described a "hypertext project" called "WorldWideWeb" in which a "web" of "hypertext documents" could be viewed by “browsers”."
https://home.cern/science/computing/where-web-was-born
https://www.w3.org/Proposal.html
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