Bookmarks tagged "nostalgia"
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Blogging Before Blogs
Taking a look back at early “blogs” and how they shaped a new kind of web culture
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A Golden Era of Blogging
Jim Nielsen questions the idea of a “golden era” of blogging.
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Why 90s Movies Feel More Alive Than Anything on Netflix
Afranca reflects on why 90s movies feel more alive than modern Netflix releases, pointing to risk, texture, and personality being smoothed out by today’s streaming model.
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30 Years of
TagsArtmann looks back on 30 years of the
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The History of the Web looks at how comment sections changed over time, from lively, hosted discussions to disappearing or outsourced feeds under social platforms.
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Blogs used to be very different.
Jetgirl looks back at how blogs used to work, from tight-knit communities to slower, more personal writing, and how different that feels compared to today.
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Early web memories - roundup post
Winther rounds up early web memories from the recent Bear Blog Carnival - gutted I missed this as it was happening!
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Should Your Indieweb Site Be Mobile Friendly?
MKUltra.Monster experiments with making old-web design mobile-friendly without losing its classic feel.
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My first months in cyberspace
Phil Gyford remembers the excitement and optimism of being online in 1995.
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The HTML Hobbyist
A personal website by HTML hobbyist, Nathan, sharing simple HTML, CSS, and RSS tutorials based on courses they taught at Berkley Computer Training between 1997-2003
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The internet’s hidden creative renaissance (and how to find it)
Shame it’s on Substack. New Public explores the revival of the handmade web pushing back against the corporate internet.
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Do blogs need to be so lonely? - The History of the Web
If the web is participatory, and I really think it is, then how come blogging can feel so lonely?
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Seeing A Different Web
Matt’s post talks about how the return to the "small web" or "IndieWeb" has allowed new surfers to recapture the original sense of community and direct interaction of the early days of the web, before social media and the five websites.
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Writing HTML, Writing the Web, Righting the Web
cogdog reflects on their early days on the web, starting in 1993, and their passion for HTML, a foundation of the web.
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The Search For My First Website
TribesmanJohn goes searching for their original website
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I Wish I Didn't Miss the '90s-00s Internet
I want the thrill of finding new websites searching through web rings; when the web was truly the wild west and not another arm of control by mega corporations.
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Make the Web Great Again
Surfing the Web back in those days felt like going on a genuine adventure. Internet Explorer and Netscape were quite fitting names for the browsers that reigned in those days.
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GeoCities’ Afterlife and Web History | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age
There is a similar situation with Geocities. It was not a paradise for early web makers. It was not even a good web hosting service. It was free and not worse than others, that’s why webmasters endured the pain
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Carl and the cookie and the Web
A brief history of Carl Steadman of suck.com fame
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The ‘90s Internet: When 20 hours online triggered an email from my ISP’s president
Yes. There was a time where you could be online too much. The author recalls in 1998, a plea for restraint from their ISP reveals a lost world where the Net was an opt-in experience.
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A one-person oral history of Geocities HTML Chat
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Nostalgiamining vs. Forging the Future
Some harsh truths here!
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MACHETES DIPPED IN RUM
This is a super long read that goes into huge detail about Bone Thugs-N-Harmony all the way up to 2015.
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The Story Behind Lil Kim’s Iconic Louis Vuitton Logo-Print Portrait
The Story Behind Lil Kim’s Iconic Louis Vuitton Logo-Print Portrait
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The Rise And Fall Of Grunge Typography
The Rise And Fall Of Grunge Typography by Sharan Shetty. Hop on the nostalgia train for a second. Think back to the 90s. To Nirvana, Linklater’s Slacker, and the flannel-clad rebels on the run from the 80s. To skateboards...
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How to bring back the old internet
People who grew up with the internet of the 1990s probably remember forums — those clunky, lo-fi spaces where people came together to argue about cars, cycling, video games, cooking, or a million other topics. They had their problems, but in retrospect the internet of those days felt like a magical land of possibility, not a place for organizing pogroms.
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When the Web Was Weird
In the late ‘90s, an obscure site called Superbad pioneered jarringly bizarre, often ugly, but occasionally beautiful web design. It’s taken all this time for the rest of the Internet to catch up.
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GeoCities, webrings, and the cozy connectedness of the ‘90s internet
How GeoCities webrings made the ‘90s internet a cozier place.