new internet
Social Computing | CS 278
web.stanford.edu
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
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.comAlso, 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
My Website Is a Shifting House Next to a River of Knowledge. What Could Yours Be?
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Naive Weekly | Kristoffer | Substack
naiveweekly.com
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.