new internet
why is this site so barebones? aren't you a designer?
- it feels more honest this way.
kelin
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.comMy Website Is a Shifting House Next to a River of Knowledge. What Could Yours Be?
thecreativeindependent.comthecreativeindependent.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
I think we see a decline in the big "open sea" social networks, replaced increasingly by fragmented silos. I don't know what will happen to Twitter, but if Elon's shenanigans cause it to fail I don't think we'll ever see anything quite like it take its place:
Lars Doucet Dec 26 • AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off
Beyond that the wider internet just strikes me as a sad place. There is no energy there. The cracks in the wall are beginning to show.