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
Tim Chambers
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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
⭐️⭐️⭐️ Snapshot of 2003 #socialsoftware, one of MacManus’s excellent year-by-year overviews of #internethistory also see his book.
https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/115769431493954388
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
Richard MacManus
and 1 other
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In the final part of my 5-part series on the history of blogging and RSS, we come to 2003: when RSS Readers like NetNewsWire and Bloglines burst onto the scene, and when I made my official entrance into the blogosphere with a Radio Userland blog called Read/WriteWeb. Also: Google buys Blogger, WordPress debuts, and 16-year old Aaron Swartz live-blogs a Dave Winer keynote. https://cybercultural.com/p/blogosphere-2003/ #InternetHistory #BloggingHistory
In the final part of my 5-part series on the history of blogging and RSS, we come to 2003: when RSS Readers like NetNewsWire and Bloglines burst onto the scene, and when I made my official entrance into the blogosphere with a Radio Userland blog called Read/WriteWeb. Also: Google buys Blogger, WordPress debuts, and 16-year old Aaron Swartz live-blogs a Dave Winer keynote. https://cybercultural.com/p/blogosphere-2003/ #InternetHistory #BloggingHistory
Joachim
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In this week's internet history post, I look back at the peak of Flash web design in 2003. In particular, the launch of BowieNet version 3 — designed completely in Flash (which made it a huge challenge to get screenshots from the Wayback Machine!). Also featured: MTV2 and tokyoplastic v1. Hat-tip to @alienmelon, who I quote on Flash history. https://cybercultural.com/p/bowienet-v3-flash-2003/ #InternetHistory #Flash
Richard MacManus
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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
joene 🏴🍉
and 5 others
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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
In this week's internet history post, I look back at the peak of Flash web design in 2003. In particular, the launch of BowieNet version 3 — designed completely in Flash (which made it a huge challenge to get screenshots from the Wayback Machine!). Also featured: MTV2 and tokyoplastic v1. Hat-tip to @alienmelon, who I quote on Flash history. https://cybercultural.com/p/bowienet-v3-flash-2003/ #InternetHistory #Flash
Richard MacManus
and 2 others
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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
