A great follow-up from @Jayhoffmann!
"1995 was the web’s single most important inflection point."
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/1995-was-the-most-important-year-for-the-web/
"As the internet became more interactive over 1995, it became a more attractive place for musicians to set up a web presence. David Bowie was one of the first to do this."
"At the beginning of 1995, the internet was still largely the domain of academic-minded geeks and Silicon Valley hippies. But the culture at large was increasingly taking notice of cyberspace.
Throughout 1995, millions more people went online and thousands of companies bought “dot com” domain names.
The web was now open for business."
It was on this day 36 years ago when @timbl submitted his proposal to CERN for an "information management system", precursor to the World Wide Web.
"In the proposal, Berners-Lee modestly spoke of wanting to use hypertext, a.k.a. links, to help CERN deal with information storage issues.
[...]
His boss’s response?
“Vague, but exciting.”"
https://www.vox.com/2019/3/12/18260709/30th-anniversary-world-wide-web-google-doodle-history
"The key to [Beverly Hills Internet]'s initial growth over 1995 was helping people who had no technical knowledge of HTML to build a web page on the internet. It offered a “Personal GeoPage Generator” that enabled homesteaders to easily create a home page.
But more than that, and as the name for its users implied, Bohnett wanted to give people the sense that they had a home on the internet."
"This is, after all, the ephemeral truth of the Internet: if you don’t save it, even if it seems like it’s everywhere momentarily, it will just as quickly disappear."
Reblog of Stefan Bohacek:
Reblog via Stefan Bohacek "Relational creation means recognizing the value that others have brought to you, and wanting to acknowledge it publicly. That means crediting… that means linking." #internet #TheWeb #OpenWeb #indieweb #GiftEconomy Esto es una forma específica, orientada a la web, de desarrollos como los marcos relacionales de contratación entre empresas como Vested Way, de Kate Vitasek…
https://santander-vela.net/2025/02/04/%f0%9f%94%81-reblog-of-stefan-bohacek/
Reblog of Stefan Bohacek:
Reblog via Stefan Bohacek
“Relational creation means recognizing the value that others have brought to you, and wanting to acknowledge it publicly. That means crediting… that means linking.”
https://tracydurnell.com/2025/01/27/the-open-web-as-gift-economy-part-4/
#internet #TheWeb #OpenWeb #indieweb #GiftEconomy
Esto es una forma específica, orientada a la web, de desarrollos como los marcos relacionales de contratación entre empresas como Vested Way, de Kate Vitasek…
"Relational creation means recognizing the value that others have brought to you, and wanting to acknowledge it publicly. That means crediting… that means linking."
https://tracydurnell.com/2025/01/27/the-open-web-as-gift-economy-part-4/
I probably already mentioned it, but https://www.deadweb.club is a pretty interesting project that aims to connect people interested in exploring "defunct social media platforms, abandoned 3D worlds, and forgotten blogs".
Their newsletter hasn't been very active, but they just announced a new member joining the team, so definitely worth (re-)subscribing.
Love this! A 22-page DIY web archiving zine that "shows you why everyone should participate in preserving the things on the web they care about, and how anyone can do so (no special expertise required!)".
https://zinebakery.com/homemade-zines/bakeshop-2-diywebarchiving
#internet #TheWeb #archiving #WebArchiving
Made by @quinnanya, @Literature_Geek, and bunch of other awesome folks, found via @lavaeolus https://fedihum.org/@lavaeolus/113873744698219704
We should be making more internet forums. Like with Discourse. Or more old school ones.
We need to invest in our communities and build new ones. That's how we get through the difficult times. Together.
"Tracing how Wikipedia searchers flit among topics and lose themselves in Wiki rabbit holes revealed three different styles of human inquisitiveness: the “busybody,” the “hunter” and the “dancer.”"
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/wikipedia-searches-reveal-differing-styles-of-curiosity/
Also good read:
"It is difficult to count how widely CSS is used, but the number of HTML pages that does not use CSS is probably not more than a few percent. Many people make their living as CSS designers or from CSS conferences. And the number of books written about CSS can no longer be counted."
Happy birthday, CSS!
"The first CSS specification to become an official W3C Recommendation is CSS level 1, published on 17 December 1996."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CSS
"CSS stood out because it was simple, especially compared to some of its earliest competitors."
Following up on the last boost, and I don't really want to get into the whole Bluesky vs fedi thing, but I am curious about how folks feel about the different approaches to handles/usernames.
Personally, I like the "X of Y" style. I can see who you are, and where you reside.
Not a fan of long, confusing usernames that are possible on BS.
Sometimes, much like everyone else, I wonder whether the internet has a net benefit. Then I post about a historical event, and someone replies: Oh yeah, I was there.
Yeah, this is not so bad.
"The challenge for producing stable public knowledge, then, is that the Internet has both seeped into so much of public life and has also been continually redefined. It manages to be so many things, all at once."
https://www.amacad.org/publication/internet-and-engaged-citizenship/section/2
"I thought I was going to be a writer; experimenting with #theWeb meant that I chose to take the computer science route and learn more about building software. It radically changed the course of my life.
So much of what I’ve been able to do, the people I’ve met, the things I’ve experienced, the work I’ve been privileged to take on, has been because of the magic of those first #Netscape releases."
Me too…
https://werd.io/2024/the-web-and-i
Wishing @internetarchive happy 23rd anniversary of the public launch of Wayback Machine! And lots of support during the ongoing wave of attacks, both on their server, and their mission.
