Happy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it".
Happy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it".
"It’s notable that MySpace came from an LA-based company, eUniverse. While the Silicon Valley based Friendster tried to impose various technological constraints onto its users, MySpace adopted a more laidback, Venice Beach-like approach. You can do whatever you want with your profile and make friends with whomever you choose — that was the MySpace way."
https://cybercultural.com/p/myspace-2003/
#internet #TheWeb #SocialMedia #history #technology #cyberculture
"In June 2002, Pew Research Center released a report on broadband uptake. It stated that 21% of all Internet users in America — 24 million adults — now had broadband in the home, up from just 6% two years ago."
"By the end of 2002, blogging had blossomed into a thriving ecosystem of colourful personal sites that interconnected to each other via RSS, trackback and blogrolls."
"On 12 November 1990 [Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau] published a formal proposal outlining principal concepts and defining important terms behind the web. The document described a "hypertext project" called "WorldWideWeb" in which a "web" of "hypertext documents" could be viewed by “browsers”."
https://home.cern/science/computing/where-web-was-born
https://www.w3.org/Proposal.html
#WorldWideWeb #HypertextProject #TheWeb #internet #TechHistory #technology #OnThisDay #OTD
"On 12 November 1990 [Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau] published a formal proposal outlining principal concepts and defining important terms behind the web. The document described a "hypertext project" called "WorldWideWeb" in which a "web" of "hypertext documents" could be viewed by “browsers”."
https://home.cern/science/computing/where-web-was-born
https://www.w3.org/Proposal.html
#WorldWideWeb #HypertextProject #TheWeb #internet #TechHistory #technology #OnThisDay #OTD
"Geocities [which launched in November 1994] has a fascinating history. A roaring beginning, a dramatic climax, the most tragic of endings, and just a sprinkle of hope right at the end."
"Nettime has been widely recognized for its seminal role stimulating and disseminating ideas about Netzkritik or Net Critique, net.art, and tactical media and pioneered practices such as "collaborative filtering"."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettime
The internet mailing list Nettime was created in 1995, 30 years ago.
https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9510/msg00000.html
#internet #TheWeb #history #InternetHistory #OTD #OnThisDay #MailingList #NetArt #nettime
"The terrorist attacks of September 11 quickly turned blogging into a real-time forum for political analysis, conspiracy theories, emotion and outrage. The so-called “warblogs” emerged."
"The terrorist attacks of September 11 quickly turned blogging into a real-time forum for political analysis, conspiracy theories, emotion and outrage. The so-called “warblogs” emerged."
"Interaction on the Web is a little like a mirror, like communicating with a manifestation of yourself. Because it is so chaotic, so decentralised, I find that using the Web becomes like communicating with a hardware version of me. It’s not exactly a doppelgänger, but an alternative version of myself."
"Interaction on the Web is a little like a mirror, like communicating with a manifestation of yourself. Because it is so chaotic, so decentralised, I find that using the Web becomes like communicating with a hardware version of me. It’s not exactly a doppelgänger, but an alternative version of myself."
"On August 6, 1991 [34 years ago], the first website was introduced to the world. [It] contained information about the World Wide Web Project. It launched at the European Organization for Nuclear Research, CERN, where it was created by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee."
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html
Happy birthday, web!