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Anthology #1: Reddit
In 2003, University of Virginia gaming roomies Alexis Ohanian (History Major) and Steve Huffman (CS major) were starstruck with the entrepreneurial dream. Their make-the-world-a-better-place idea at the time was a food-ordering app named mmm😋(MyMobileMenu). During their senior year, Steve's girlfriend told him that Paul Graham(PG) was coming to Bo
... See moreAli Abouelatta • 👾 Reddit
Many values of the early years of the internet, including openness, creativity, and connection, are deeply appealing now.
New_ Public • 💾 Why we’re nostalgic for the early web
But it’s not just about authorship and intent. In his newsletter, Chayka says the spirit of these sites was far more collaborative and community-minded: “what I miss most of all about the earlier internet is the sense that I was connecting to a coherent community, a group of people who, even if I didn’t know them IRL, I knew.”
New_ Public • 💾 Why we’re nostalgic for the early web
How might you help people find new things on the internet? How might you give new things on the internet a meaningful audition, without turning it all into a game that can (and will) be hacked and mastered?
Robin Sloan • A Year of New Avenues
For all the debate over whether our current social networks are good for society, I prefer to focus on the potential we've yet to realize. We have the miracle of Wikipedia, yes, but aren't there more types of mass scale collaboration to be enabled?
Eugene Wei • And You Will Know Us by the Company We Keep
But amidst it all, the human web, the one made by regular people, is resurgent.
Anil Dash • The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again
Most who use the Reddit hack are doing so for practical reasons, but it’s also a small act of protest—a way to stick it to the Search Engine Optimization and Online Ad Industrial Complex and to attempt to access a part of the internet that feels freer and more human.