"For seemingly no reason at all, thousands of people were telling stories about themselves, unguarded even against the background toxicity of internet comment sections. Many of them used the word “checkpoint.”"
longreads.com/2026/02/26/internet-chec...
#essay […]
An article from last year that celebrates the 40th anniversary of ".com".
"Four decades ago, the first domain was registered and the initial batch of top-level domains came to be. Nearly a billion domains have been registered since then."
https://www.dotcom.press/history-of-domains […]
"That's my belief. It just takes a bit of guidance and access to understandable knowledge. That word 'understandable,' it's important. You don't introduce people to website building by using geek-speak. You have to talk human to human..."
https://cybercultural.com/p/1994-cool-site-of-the-day/ […]
grandpa simpsons head on an old meme template: I made a meme like this which was the style at the time
Me, teaching my undergrads about early web history.
#readingweek #theweb #memes #humor #humour
I did not know it's a thing that people are building desktop environments in the browser for fun: - https://webos.js.org/ - https://dustinbrett.com/ Wild.
Apparently this is a thing: Desktop Environments in the browser
#OS #TheWeb
"By the end of 1994, there were roughly 10,000 websites on the web. It was still early days and most of the websites were quite basic in structure."
https://cybercultural.com/p/1994-web-design/
#internet #TheWeb #history #technology #cyberculture
"#TheWeb: Everything Is Shifting at Once
What makes this moment disorienting to some, but also exciting, is that multiple systems are changing simultaneously. It’s not just consumption models or discovery mechanisms or economics of the internet. It’s all of them, at the same time, and they’re […]
A screenshot of a section of the Color page from the video-editing software DaVinci Resolve. It shows a full-spectrum rainbow gradient in the shape of a rounded triangle overlaid on top of a grid. There are white splotches representing what colors are in the frame that is selected, but they look a little like spiderwebs.
Every time I go to the Color page in Davinci, I just find myself thinking "This is so #Web -coded."
#TMA #TheWeb #TheMagnusArchives #Help #I'mTMA-PostingOnMainAgain #IShouldBeWorking
"I'm in the process of setting up a WWW server that will blow the socks off your Mosaic viewer!"
https://cybercultural.com/p/1993-mtv-internet/
#internet #TheWeb #history #technology #cyberculture
An interesting essay here about #blogs and #blogging.
"It is because information is free that blogging can be an act of courage [...] One of the most incredible things about blogging is that it remains, in many ways, unchanged."
Information is still free The History of the Web] […]
"By 2003, with the blogosphere now established, music fans had begun to gravitate to blogs to pontificate about the music and artists they loved."
https://cybercultural.com/p/mp3-blogs-2003/
#music #history #TheWeb #internet #cyberculture
Why I 🧡 the web.
Wayback Machine Web Browser Extension
github.com/internetarch...
lets you "go back in time to see how a URL has changed and evolved through the history of the Web."
#webdev #oldschool #waybackmachien #theweb
A nice piece about the rise and fall of the #website comments section, published recently on The History of Web. As with so much of the #web today, the best expressions of it are now behind us...
What happened to the comment section? The History of the Web] […]
A photograph of a Daily Mail newspaper article from December 5, 2000, with the headline "Internet 'may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it'". The article includes a cropped photo showing hands typing on a keyboard in front of a computer displaying a website.
Happy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it".
#internet #TheWeb #OTD #OnThisDay #history
Poster for the film noir movie 'The Web' (1947). Directed by Michael Gordon. Starring Edmond O'Brien, Ella Raines, Vincent Price, William Bendix, Maria Palmer and John Abbott. On the poster an illustration of a dark haired woman wearing a pink dress on the right side of the poster, an illustration of a dark haired man wearing a brown jacket holding a revolver on his right hand on the top left corner of the poster and illustrations of two men's faces on the bottom left corner of the poster, superimposed by a spider's web.
Collage of four black and white frames from the film noir movie 'The Web' (1947). Top left corner: On the foreground on the left side of the frame a slightly smiling woman (Ella Raines as Noel Faraday) sitting in a leather armchair next to a desk in an office. Standing in the background in the middle of the frame at the glass doors to the office a man (Edmond O'Brien as Bob Regan) wearing a suit and a long coat holding his hat in his left hand. Top right corner: Man (Edmond O'Brien as Bob Regan) wearing a suit and tie standing at the doorway to a room firing a revolver he's holding in his right hand. Bottom left corner: Three people, two men and a woman, in a home study. Standing on the foreground in the middle of the frame facing the camera a serious looking woman (Ella Raines as Noel Faraday) holding a letter in her hands. Standing behind the woman on her left side a slightly grinning tall man (Vincent Price as Andrew Colby) wearing a suit and a tie. Sitting in an armchair on the background on the right in front of a bookcase a slightly balding older man (John Abbott as Charles Murdock) wearing a suit and a tie reading a book. Bottom right corner: Close-up of a concerned looking man (Vincent Price as Andrew Colby) wearing a suit and a tie. There's walled chandelier in the background on the right.
With a cleverer ending #TheWeb would've actually been a cracking film noir. I mean it's still quite enjoyable, mostly thanks to the principal cast's performances which actually elevate the film above its meager story. 📽️🎞️
"In June 2002, Pew Research Center released a report on broadband uptake. It stated that 21% of all Internet users in America — 24 million adults — now had broadband in the home, up from just 6% two years ago."
https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-2002/
#internet #TheWeb #history #technology […]
"By the end of 2002, blogging had blossomed into a thriving ecosystem of colourful personal sites that interconnected to each other via RSS, trackback and blogrolls."
https://cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-2002/
#blogging #blogs #RSS #internet #TheWeb #cyberculture
"On 12 November 1990 [Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau] published a formal proposal outlining principal concepts and defining important terms behind the web. The document described a "hypertext project" called "WorldWideWeb" in which a "web" of "hypertext documents" could be viewed by […]
Y'all I'm just saying, this frame of Rosie puppeting Alastor gives SUCH big Magnus Archives vibes. Like imagine Annabelle Cane puppeting people like this, or hell, even Elias puppeting Jon
#themagnusarchives #tma #annabellecane #theweb #eliasbouchard #theeye
"Geocities [which launched in November 1994] has a fascinating history. A roaring beginning, a dramatic climax, the most tragic of endings, and just a sprinkle of hope right at the end."
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/an-ode-to-geocities/
#geocities #internet #TheWeb #InternetHistory #history
"Nettime has been widely recognized for its seminal role stimulating and disseminating ideas about Netzkritik or Net Critique, net.art, and tactical media and pioneered practices such as "collaborative filtering"."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettime
The internet mailing list Nettime was […]
"The terrorist attacks of September 11 quickly turned blogging into a real-time forum for political analysis, conspiracy theories, emotion and outrage. The so-called “warblogs” emerged."
https://cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-2001/
#internet #TheWeb #blogs #blogging #cyberculture
Cover for Mighty Comics Presents:The Web issue 40. A Lemon/Lime superhero throws furniture at a guy with a big iron ball for a hand.
Comic page featuring the Web fighting a villain called Uglyman.
One of my favorite superheroes that isn’t DC or Marvel is The Web, from Archie Comics. That’s right, Archie Comics was once called MLJ and they have tried multiple times to revive their Superhero line. #ComicSky #Comics #ArchieComics #TheWeb #Superheroes #TheMightyCrusaders #RedCircleComics
The Wayback Machine was launched 24 years ago!
"The Wayback Machine has a pulse, rhythmic and steady as it loops endlessly through the spaces of the web."
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/archiving-the-web/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine
#OnThisDay #OTD #history #internet #TheWeb […]
"By the end of 2000, the web had settled into a strange dual state: the financial euphoria of the dot-com boom was gone, yet the culture of the web had never felt more alive."
https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-2000/
#cyberculture #internet #TheWeb
Two cool things:
- @archive.org will hit 1 TRILLION web pages preserved and available for access via the Wayback Machine.
- Their blog uses the Twenty Twelve #WordPress theme.
blog.archive.org/trillion/
#webdev #theweb
"For those of us interested in more ethical, user-focused social platforms, it’s worth understanding how these ventures can go wrong."
osteophage.neocities.org/projects/good-web-gravey...
#EthicalWeb #internet #TheWeb #websites #EthicalTech #technology
#google #googlesearch #27thbirthday #27thanniversary #searchengine #web #theweb #www #worldwideweb #thenet #internet #theinternet #internetofthings #informationage #informationera #internetage #internetera
One of the community-oriented challenges coming up next month is #WeirdWebOctober https://weirdweboctober.website
Great way to learn how to make your own website!
Here are some of my favorite resources: stefanbohacek.com/blog/resources-for-keepi... […]
