In the latest post in my history of web design, we enter 1994 — when the Web shifts into a publishing medium. As site authors seek control over formatting and design, the WWW-Talk mailing list hosts an early debate over style sheets and presentation. Also, I look at typical web design elements of websites in 1994. https://cybercultural.com/p/1994-web-design/ #WebDesign #InternetHistory

In the latest post in my history of web design, we enter 1994 — when the Web shifts into a publishing medium. As site authors seek control over formatting and design, the WWW-Talk mailing list hosts an early debate over style sheets and presentation. Also, I look at typical web design elements of websites in 1994. https://cybercultural.com/p/1994-web-design/ #WebDesign #InternetHistory

💕 I Love Free Software Day 2026 💕

For this year’s I Love Free Software Day I am co-organising two special events, and I am super excited about them!

• 🧶 Knitting Our Internet at Snackbar Frieda, Rotterdam, on Friday Feb 13th at 18:00. All information here.
• 🛹 A reading of @kirschner’s Ada & Zangemann in English and in Dutch. After that, a conversation about Free Software maintenance as care work, together with @mayel from @Bonfire ❤️‍🔥 at the @internetarchiveeurope, Oudeschans 16, Amsterdam on Saturday Feb 14th at 14:00. All information here. Info about the super cool poster in the post below.

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #ILoveFS #ILoveFreeSoftware #ILoveFS #IloveFS26 #ournet #KnittingOurInternet #SnackbarFrieda #Rotterdam #Amsterdam #InternetArchive #InternetArchiveEurope #AZbook #Ada #AdaZangemann #reading #event #decentralizaion #InternetHistory #Internet

💕 I Love Free Software Day 2026 💕

For this year’s I Love Free Software Day I am co-organising two special events, and I am super excited about them!

• 🧶 Knitting Our Internet at Snackbar Frieda, Rotterdam, on Friday Feb 13th at 18:00. All information here.
• 🛹 A reading of @kirschner’s Ada & Zangemann in English and in Dutch. After that, a conversation about Free Software maintenance as care work, together with @mayel from @Bonfire ❤️‍🔥 at the @internetarchiveeurope, Oudeschans 16, Amsterdam on Saturday Feb 14th at 14:00. All information here. Info about the super cool poster in the post below.

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #ILoveFS #ILoveFreeSoftware #ILoveFS #IloveFS26 #ournet #KnittingOurInternet #SnackbarFrieda #Rotterdam #Amsterdam #InternetArchive #InternetArchiveEurope #AZbook #Ada #AdaZangemann #reading #event #decentralizaion #InternetHistory #Internet

Next event: A critical history of being online
When: 29/01, 18:00
Where: Lauschangriff, Rigaer str. 103, Berlin

We would like to introduce the term “online life” to include everything we do online from maps, scrolling, guidance, news, dating, communications, and more. We would like to explore equivalence though history and media, examining technologies of money, language, affect, nature and knowing. What historical conditions did the spontaneous imaginary of communities and collectives come under the control of centralized and exploitative powers? When did self and social bonds explode into ever expanding alienating assemblages?

We'll be summarizing excerpts from Grundrisse (Marx) and Symbolic Economies (Goux) - no pre-reading required!

#berlin #tech #technology #internethistory #criticaltheory #online

Next event: A critical history of being online
When: 29/01, 18:00
Where: Lauschangriff, Rigaer str. 103, Berlin

We would like to introduce the term “online life” to include everything we do online from maps, scrolling, guidance, news, dating, communications, and more. We would like to explore equivalence though history and media, examining technologies of money, language, affect, nature and knowing. What historical conditions did the spontaneous imaginary of communities and collectives come under the control of centralized and exploitative powers? When did self and social bonds explode into ever expanding alienating assemblages?

We'll be summarizing excerpts from Grundrisse (Marx) and Symbolic Economies (Goux) - no pre-reading required!

#berlin #tech #technology #internethistory #criticaltheory #online

IMPORTANT: TODAY IS THE 12TH ANNIVERSARY OF "BEAUTIFUL CINNAMON ROLL TOO GOOD FOR THIS WORLD, TOO PURE"

#memes #internet #internetHistory

The final post of Cybercultural season 4 -> Online music and blogging were two key trends in the first decade of digital culture. In 2003, they combine in the form of MP3 blogs. Together with Pitchfork, they revolutionize music journalism. https://cybercultural.com/p/mp3-blogs-2003/ #InternetHistory #MP3Blogs

Remember "social software"? By 2003, the internet had weathered the worst of the dot-com crash and developers and entrepreneurs were beginning to come out of hibernation. While it would take another year for Silicon Valley to start inflating another bubble — this one would be named "Web 2.0" — there was a renewed sense of optimism. https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-2003/ #InternetHistory