new internet
In the early days of the internet, one of the first search engines, Yahoo!, hired “surfers,” people with particularly niche interests, to record and catalog new websites by hand. In those days, each site was crafted by hand by a person. Each site had a face you could see, and if desired, email.
Spencer Chang • Taking an Internet Walk
we’re going to look back at how we designed the world around computers with the same regret that we look at how we’ve designed cities around cars
Maxim Leyzerovichx.comI think that this whole smartphone scrolling, content consuming, ubiquitous posting, Extremely Online thing is going to go the way of the Fedora, or the Marlboro smoked at cruising altitude in economy class. In the end it is all going to fade.
The End of the Extremely Online Era
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
chrisrempel.com • Part 1: the internet is having a kodak moment – Chris Rempel's Blog
About this Class #
There are two meanings of internet:
When the average person says “internet” they usually refer to the second definition. This class, on the other hand, explores the first.
There are two meanings of internet:
- the infrastructure that connects computing devices,
- or the ecosystem of applications built on that infrastructure.
When the average person says “internet” they usually refer to the second definition. This class, on the other hand, explores the first.
Ben Cuan • Intro to the Internet | 🗒️ Ben's Notes
The timeline isn’t settled.
The @-mention isn’t settled.
Nothing is settled. It’s 2003 again!
The @-mention isn’t settled.
Nothing is settled. It’s 2003 again!
Robin Sloan • A Year of New Avenues
I want a new internet, one that feels like ours.
Spencer • our internet [tiny internets 01]
There’s a simple test you can do to tell if a website is a positive citizen of the web, or a negative one. Go to the website and look for their links; do they have any? Does the website link to other websites made by other people? Or do they just link to their own social media? How many outbound links do they have?
In short; is the website a dead... See more
In short; is the website a dead... See more
