1/3 - @internetarchive I miss being a kid on mIRC. Before what most people today classify as social media, before ICQ, MSN Messenger, FrontPage 98, StarCraft, RuneScape, Napster, BitTorrent, or Stack Overflow. I was a kid fresh out of BBS discovering the “Information Superhighway” on a dial-up connection.
Wayback Proxy Lets Your Browser Party Like It’s 1999 - This project is a few years old, but it might be appropriate to cover it late sinc... - https://hackaday.com/2025/05/26/wayback-proxy-lets-your-browser-party-like-its-1999/ #internetarchive #retrocomputing #internethacks #earlyinternet #rasberrypi #geocities #proxy #web
3) A light oral history of the sweet spot between cell phone ubiquity and home internet circa 2002, when being off work meant your time was (somewhat) your own
"Could things really have been so different just a few short decades ago? Was the last era before smartphones the last time anyone had any fun? Can a modern young person ever understand what it was like to simply watch whatever happened to be on television?"
https://slate.com/human-interest/2023/06/life-before-cell-phones-internet-after-work.html
Excellent short piece about why Mastodon at the same time feels great and really not good enough - much like the early internet... and we need some kind of alternative way of financing this..
"if there’s a way out of corporate control of the internet, Tufekci suggests that it starts with money—both for financing alternative platforms and for creating paid jobs maintaining the underlying infrastructure on which the open internet depends."
#EarlyInternet
https://daily.jstor.org/whatever-happened-to-the-open-internet/
#Introduction cntd (This is random stuff what I'm interested and be posting/following): #Arts, #literature, #ComplexSystems, #LongTrends, #politics (esp. #Finland/ #Scandinavia / #Europe + other global regions too), #History (#medieval, Europe, #WorldHistory etc.), IT/tech (#EarlyInternet, #FutureStudies), #Fantasy, #SciFi, #Anime, #Manga, #Comics, #nature, #wildlife, #SocioEcologicalSystems, #sustainability, #EnergySystems, #palaeontology, #archeology, #anthropology, #arctic stuff, #climate...
