On this day, 56 years ago:
"At 10:30 p.m., 29 October 1969, the first ARPANET message was sent from this UCLA site to the Stanford Research Institute."
https://ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace_of_the_Internet,_1969
internet
NEW: Roger Shoffstall spent three years in prison for evading income taxes.
It hasn’t stopped the FCC from sending him $1 million a year to sell obsolete internet service in Alaska.
The money comes from a special government subsidy program. You help pay for it.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alaska-telecom-subsidies-roger-shoffstall?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
"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
#internet #TheWeb #history #InternetHistory #OTD #OnThisDay #MailingList #NetArt #nettime
"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."
If you ever wanted to know what the largest group of losers on the #internet is, look no further than #4chan.
A site and userbase that all pridefully stand on the soapbox that their site is the end-all-be-all in free speech and lack of #censorship.
buuuuut.
If I ever get sick of Mastodon, Lemmy and Pixelfed, there's one thing I can do that I can't do on 4chan,
at least I can get all of my money back.
all $0 of it.
"kek"
A site and userbase that all pridefully stand on the soapbox that their site is the end-all-be-all in free speech and lack of #censorship.
buuuuut.
several boards have baked-in trigger words, some of them over a decade old that will ban or deny your threads or comments by defaultA group of thousands of #incels that all can't wait to tell you how much your site sucks when they're all being exploited at face-value like cattle. Add to injury, they even had an #Activitypub implementation of their own site, ran by the community, and it still crumbled into pieces.
no #VPN use or you'll be banned for trying(if their detection can tell)
you have to wait 300 seconds if the system doesn't have a cookie for you to post at thread, and 200 to post a comment, and sometimes it resets for no reason.
unless you pay hard, earned currency for it in the name of cash or #crypto
and give an #email address that likely connects to your real identity
If I ever get sick of Mastodon, Lemmy and Pixelfed, there's one thing I can do that I can't do on 4chan,
at least I can get all of my money back.
all $0 of it.
"kek"
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#Fediverse & #Internet video accounts:
(If an account looks blank/old, read this: https://fedi.tips/why-does-someones-account-page-look-completely-blank-is-it-really-blank/)
➡️ @firesidefedi - Interviewing familiar faces around the Fediverse
➡️ @fedihost - Tutorials & tips for running your own Fediverse server
➡️ @wedistributemedia - News & features about the Fedi
➡️ @ethicalrevolution - Highlighting good music on the Fedi
➡️ @ele - Documentary-maker, Fedi & self-hosting
➡️ @andypiper - Tech & Fedi enthusiast, head of comms at Mastodon gGmbH
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"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
#WorldWideWeb #HypertextProject #TheWeb #internet #TechHistory #technology #OnThisDay #OTD
I've downloaded files over #dialup connection way faster than this!
While I pay tons of money on #Internet each month, the connection state is near to disconnected in #Iran
A regime of terror afraid it's own people more than anything else…
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"In the beginning, the Web was simple. When I first encountered it in early 1993 (working for O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator[...]), there was only one browser for viewing web pages and it ran exclusively on the Unix platform. There were about a dozen tags that made any difference. Designing a web page was a relatively simple task."
Every person joining the fediverse is a digital hero.
You may think it's a small thing. Yes, it's small thing but also a big step to make Internet better and people-first.
Made by the people for the people.
Oh, and also made for cats, dogs, capybaras and other puppies.
So, enjoy, encourage friends to join and let's make it a nice, inclusive and cozy space for everyone.
#fediverse #internet #SocialWeb #web #SocialMedia #Vebinet #Mastodon #Pixelfed #Loops #PeopleFirst
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💕 I Love Free Software Day 2026 💕
For this year’s I Love Free Software Day I am co-organising two special events, and I am super excited about them!
- 🧶 Knitting Our Internet at Snackbar Frieda, Rotterdam, on Friday Feb 13th at 18:00. All information here.
- 🛹 A reading of @kirschner’s Ada & Zangemann in English and in Dutch. After that, a conversation about Free Software maintenance as care work, together with @mayel from @Bonfire ❤️🔥 at the @internetarchiveeurope, Oudeschans 16, Amsterdam on Saturday Feb 14th at 14:00. All information here. Info about the super cool poster in the post below.
#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #ILoveFS #ILoveFreeSoftware #ILoveFS #IloveFS26 #ournet #KnittingOurInternet #SnackbarFrieda #Rotterdam #Amsterdam #InternetArchive #InternetArchiveEurope #AZbook #Ada #AdaZangemann #reading #event #decentralizaion #InternetHistory #Internet
"By the end of 1994, there were roughly 10,000 websites on the web. It was still early days and most of the websites were quite basic in structure."
I wonder if the people at #X ever read their own announcements.
Literally explaining how they sold out and enshittified the "blue checkmark".
This also seem like yet another step towards mandatory #IDverification on social media! (only to protect them kids & democratize the platforms of course 😉)
#Enshittification #SocialMedia #Twitter #Internet #announcement #news #web #verification #online #privacy #privacymatters #europe #eu #decision #digital #id #rights #legal
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As you know, on 1 April 2023 we began winding down Twitter's legacy
verification program:
Previously, to receive the blue checkmark, [highlighted in yellow] accounts had to be authentic,
active, and deemed notable by Twitter staff [] (for more information on the
legacy policy, please click here).
Now, following the changes implemented to democratize the platform, the
blue checkmark has a different meaning and identifies accounts that have an
active subscription to X Premium/X Premium+ (including services such as
reply prioritization) and are complete, active, secure and non-deceptive,
regardless of perceived notability. X supports freedom of speech and does not endorse or validate the views expressed on accounts featuring checkmarks.](/proxy/post_attachment/273389/309898c0793b86fc82626f27f1693fc8.jpeg "Screenshot of an X notification:
Update on X's blue checkmark
Following the European Commission's Decision of 5 December 2025, we must
explain the meaning of our blue checkmark and verification policies:
Premium accounts featuring the blue checkmark are not verified under
identity or authenticity criteria [highlighted in yellow](accounts verified based on an ID are labelled as \"ID verified\"). []
As you know, on 1 April 2023 we began winding down Twitter's legacy
verification program:
Previously, to receive the blue checkmark, [highlighted in yellow] accounts had to be authentic,
active, and deemed notable by Twitter staff [] (for more information on the
legacy policy, please click here).
Now, following the changes implemented to democratize the platform, the
blue checkmark has a different meaning and identifies accounts that have an
active subscription to X Premium/X Premium+ (including services such as
reply prioritization) and are complete, active, secure and non-deceptive,
regardless of perceived notability. X supports freedom of speech and does not endorse or validate the views expressed on accounts featuring checkmarks.")
"That's my belief. It just takes a bit of guidance and access to understandable knowledge. That word 'understandable,' it's important. You don't introduce people to website building by using geek-speak. You have to talk human to human..."
Special shoutout to Librecast, a free open project designing a next generation internet using "multicast". This tech may help with privacy, human rights, decentralisation, energy efficiency and stopping spam.
Librecast has a main account at:
➡️ @librecast
...and a video account at:
The project's accounts are run by Librecast's community manager @onepict who has a personal blog at @cobbles and is well worth following too.
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Investigation: Iran-linked accounts posing as Israelis to target election https://www.byteseu.com/2403167/ #2026IsraeliElections #ArtificialIntelligence #BenjaminNetanyahu #Conflicts #HarediDraft #Internet #Iran #Israel #IsraelElections2026 #SocialMedia #TheOctober7Massacre
I will be hosting my workshop Knitting Our Internet at Hyperlink (within the @publicspaces conference) at @waag this Saturday at 14:00!
Learn more and get your ticket here. If you cannot pay for it, you are welcome to send me a private message.
#PublicSpaces #Amsterdam #workshop #ournet #KnittingOurInternet #Hyperlink #event #Internet #InternetHistory
"These places only exist when the people investing their time and energy know that they are appreciated, credited, and supported."
Good reminder to, if you can't support the creators of your favorite websites financially, at least tell them how much you appreciate their time and effort.
https://aftermath.site/ians-shoelace-site-is-still-the-best-destination-for-tying-your-shoes/
An article from last year that celebrates the 40th anniversary of ".com".
"Four decades ago, the first domain was registered and the initial batch of top-level domains came to be. Nearly a billion domains have been registered since then."
https://www.dotcom.press/history-of-domains
This video was released by #Forbrukerrådet, the Norwegian #Consumer Council, a few days ago
It imagines the career trajectory of an "enshittificator"
It was hard for him to enshittify minor aspects of daily life in person, but became easy for him to do so at scale once he embraced the #Internet and #technology
It's genius #satire
credit:
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〈When did internet comments get so mean?〉
The very first website is 35 years old today, and you can still visit it at http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html!
"On August 6, 1991, the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist @timbl."
Happy birthday, web!
https://www.europesays.com/3264706/ Meta’s Muse AI agent tops rivals in post-launch downloads #AI #AlphabetClassA #Anthropic #AppleInc #ArtificialIntelligence #BreakingNews:Technology #BusinessNews #internet #InvescoQQQTrust #ISharesExpandedTechSoftwareSectorETF #MetaPlatformsInc #mobile #OpenAIForgeGlobal #SocialMedia #technology #TechnologySelectSectorSPDRFund
#互联网抗癌记 央视新闻消息，当地时间8月14日，法国宪法委员会宣布，否决一项禁止15岁以下未成年人使用社交媒体的法案，认为相关规定对表达和通信自由构成“不成比例的侵犯”。
https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_33785641
#未成年人 #社交媒体 #社交媒体禁令 #互联网 #年龄验证 #隐私 #法国 #政治 #新闻 #Minor #SocialMedia #SocialMediaBan #Internet #AgeVerification #Privacy #France #Politics #News