@william_shotts Shortly after I tried out Mosaic (the first publicly available web browser) for the first time, I was in the university computer Sun lab and a guy was showing his girlfriend the web.
She asked "what is this?" and he said "it's like Gopher, but for lazy people."
That always stuck with me.
The Retro Computing Roundtable podcast, of which I am one of several hosts, offers its contents via Gopher (...and the web, too).
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."
> The HTML <marquee> element is deprecated and its use is strongly discouraged.
This brings back memories ... of less than great web-design in the 90s.
In 1995, the Colorado town where I was attending high school hosted the first annual Digital Storytelling Festival.
One of the sponsors was "The Net" magazine, long since defunct. As part of the festival, a couple employees of The Net came to our high school and taught us HTML.
A recent bout of nostalgia led me to searching for issues of The Net magazine on eBay, but then I remembered to check the
@internetarchive
Here's the very first issue: https://archive.org/details/TheNet01Jun1995/
Boosts welcome! I'm looking for a very long #AnimatedGif of a stick figure using many techniques to try and open a door. A friend of mine had it as a forum avatar in the early 00's. It was heavy, nearly 1Mb. #LostGif #EarlyWeb #UselessFile #LongGif #Gif
and in fact blown through, you can sustain that wonderful feeling so many of us old heads keep saying reminds us of the #earlyweb (or in my case, online interactions predating that). But at a certain velocity of interaction, past a certain upper bound of interlocutors, conversation becomes first difficult, and then effectively impossible. The platform becomes a broadcast medium, posts become transmissions, heavily-followed accounts become gurus (and get reposted over & over, until their thoughts
@_manpat this is such a wonderful thing!!
Including #HistoryOfPhotography and #EarlyWeb tags for people with niche interests who would really appreciate this
