The Rise and Fall of Internet Art Communities
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
The fact that internet is vast, uncharted territory—anyone can take a hold and move culture—means that culture is becoming more diverse.
Rex Woodbury • The Internet Killed Mainstream Culture
the internet is the precarious reservation onto which culture has been driven, bleak and uncanny, inhuman in scale.
Simplicio • The Last of the Monsters with Iron Teeth
Also, much like a small homestead on a hundred acres, websites were closed ecosystems and isolated. There were no social networks or marketplace platforms to tap as a firehose channel for building an audience, and there was no real mechanism for ‘going viral’.
You had to grow your traffic the old fashioned way – by asking your digital neighbors for ... See more
You had to grow your traffic the old fashioned way – by asking your digital neighbors for ... See more
Chris Rempel • PART 1: THE INTERNET IS HAVING A KODAK MOMENT
