"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/
internet
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
"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 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
"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/