Bookmarks tagged "webhistory"
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Conceived in a secure military facility, this Jedi Knight fansite has been running consistently for almost 30 years: 'It looks really close to what it did back in 1998' | PC Gamer
A community site for Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II, still active and still looking like 1998.
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Welcome to the web we lost
Sacha Judd tracing the good internet through X-Files fandom and webrings, and it's still out there in the corners.
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What We Lost When We Quit Using Crappy Old Web Forums
A fantastic read about forum software all the way from Usenet to Discourse, which is where we ended up at the 32-Bit Cafe, same as every other forum these days. RIP phpBB.
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How to Surf the Web in 2025, and Why You Should
Algorithmic scrolling killed surfing, but David Cain reckons the old web is still there if you go looking.
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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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Static sites killed the blog comment star, but maybe old tech and a smaller web can resurrect them
This Day’s Portion argues that the move to static sites didn’t just simplify publishing, but quietly stripped away comment sections and the everyday conversations that once lived on personal blogs.
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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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My first months in cyberspace
Phil Gyford remembers the excitement and optimism of being online in 1995.
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RSS: A Well Formed Log Entry - The History of the Web
The History of the Web revisits how RSS became a cornerstone of the open 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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Making Space for a Handmade Web | Figma Blog
What if instead, there were millions of websites, each one handmade by a single person?
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Keep on GIFin’ — A New Version of GifCities, Internet Archive’s GeoCities Animated GIF Search Engine! | Internet Archive Blogs
The Internet Archive launches a new version of GifCities, the online animated gif search engine
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Why we are still using 88x31 buttons - ultrasciencelabs
Another look at the enduring popularity of 88x31 buttons we continue to put on our websites
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What the Internet Was Like in 1995
Richard MacManus provides an overview of what was going on in the web in 1995. An exciting time in the web's history.
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A Brief History of DeviantART Stamps | Ballonlea
Ballonlea explores the origins and evolution of 99x56 stamps that originated on DeviantART.
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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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It’s not about nostalgia, it’s about human connection • rscottjones
What we are nostalgic for isn’t terrible websites. It’s personal websites. It’s just a bit of diversity in design choices. It’s a hint of a person. Not a personal brand.
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Cool URLs Mean Something - The History of the Web
How many times can the Internet Archive save us before it’s unable to keep pace?
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Beware the cloud of hype - The History of the Web
When you see such outlandish shamelessness look for the cloud of hype that lies beyond it. Remember the lessons from the web.
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Lamentations of a Web 1.0 Dinosaur
Why didn't you make it easier for the non-technical to carve out their own spaces on the web rather than forcing them into the centralized digital fiefdom known as social media?
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We can have a different web
The thing is: none of this is gone. Nothing about the web has changed that prevents us from going back. If anything, it's become a lot easier. We can return. Better, yet: we can restore the things we loved about the old web while incorporating the wonderful things that have emerged since and developing even better things as we go forward.
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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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“read, write, own” web | One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age
A fascinating look at what personal or individual websites were used for back in the day before the platforms of today became dominant. The web could still be like this…
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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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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.