Let's take a trip back to 2002, when broadband kicked into gear and we got interactive websites like MTV and colorful "tableless CSS" designs like Wired. 2002 was also when "the blogosphere" was defined, but utter chaos ruled in the P2P music sharing scene (remember KaZaA and Morpheus?). There was also *finally* hope in the browser world, as Mozilla's Phoenix — which would lead to Firefox — emerged to challenge IE6. https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-2002/ #InternetHistory

Mosaic was the first web browser to hit the mainstream in 1993, built by NCSA at Illinois. 🌐 It integrated text, images, data, audio & video, sparking a web boom. Not the first browser, but the one that made the web usable for millions. Its legacy? Every browser since.

Visit its old website using your modern browser using the #WaybackMachine ⤵️ https://web.archive.org/web/19961220041605/http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html

#Wayback1T #InternetHistory

When social networks went mainstream in 2003, they were initially positioned as dating apps — both Friendster and its copycat MySpace had online dating vibes (later that year, Mark Zuckerberg would use the "hot or not" format in Facemash...but that's another, creepier, story!). Here's a look back at MySpace vs. Friendster in 2003, and why the web's 'view source' philosophy was key to MySpace winning. https://cybercultural.com/p/myspace-2003/ #InternetHistory #SocialNetworks

When social networks went mainstream in 2003, they were initially positioned as dating apps — both Friendster and its copycat MySpace had online dating vibes (later that year, Mark Zuckerberg would use the "hot or not" format in Facemash...but that's another, creepier, story!). Here's a look back at MySpace vs. Friendster in 2003, and why the web's 'view source' philosophy was key to MySpace winning. https://cybercultural.com/p/myspace-2003/ #InternetHistory #SocialNetworks

Mosaic was the first web browser to hit the mainstream in 1993, built by NCSA at Illinois. 🌐 It integrated text, images, data, audio & video, sparking a web boom. Not the first browser, but the one that made the web usable for millions. Its legacy? Every browser since.

Visit its old website using your modern browser using the #WaybackMachine ⤵️ https://web.archive.org/web/19961220041605/http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/NCSAMosaicHome.html

#Wayback1T #InternetHistory

Let's take a trip back to 2002, when broadband kicked into gear and we got interactive websites like MTV and colorful "tableless CSS" designs like Wired. 2002 was also when "the blogosphere" was defined, but utter chaos ruled in the P2P music sharing scene (remember KaZaA and Morpheus?). There was also *finally* hope in the browser world, as Mozilla's Phoenix — which would lead to Firefox — emerged to challenge IE6. https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-2002/ #InternetHistory

In the latest post in my history of blogging and RSS series, I look at the emergence of the blogosphere in 2002 — a thriving ecosystem of colourful personal sites that interconnected to each other via RSS, trackback and blogrolls. 2002 also saw the debut of RSS 2.0, Technorati and Google News. https://cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-2002/ #InternetHistory #Blogging

In the latest post in my history of blogging and RSS series, I look at the emergence of the blogosphere in 2002 — a thriving ecosystem of colourful personal sites that interconnected to each other via RSS, trackback and blogrolls. 2002 also saw the debut of RSS 2.0, Technorati and Google News. https://cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-2002/ #InternetHistory #Blogging

This week on Cybercultural, more early-2000s Apple 🍎, including why Steve Jobs didn't want online music to go the streaming route (which of course it eventually did). https://cybercultural.com/p/ipod-2002/ #InternetHistory