Laura E. Hall · @lauraehall
2362 followers · 1711 posts · Server xoxo.zone

3) A light oral history of the sweet spot between cell phone ubiquity and home internet circa 2002, when being off work meant your time was (somewhat) your own

"Could things really have been so different just a few short decades ago? Was the last era before smartphones the last time anyone had any fun? Can a modern young person ever understand what it was like to simply watch whatever happened to be on television?"

slate.com/human-interest/2023/

#oralhistory #retro #doubleaughts #earlyinternet

Last updated 1 year ago

Cher Tailor, Cher Radio · @Cher
97 followers · 2711 posts · Server eldritch.cafe

Busta4Jonez the Jellicle GaiaOnline Account

#cats #gaiaonline #earlyinternet #jellicle

Last updated 2 years ago

Early computing in South Africa: "How a few tech mavericks started the Internet in South Africa"
dailymaverick.co.za/article/20

#vintagecomputing #earlyinternet

Last updated 2 years ago

Michèle Sharik · @ladysun1969
164 followers · 342 posts · Server masto.ai

Fascinating that this is still unsolved! I vaguely remember this. 1996 was the year I graduated with my computer programming degree & got my 1st “real job” so I was a bit busy & didn’t really pay a lot of attention to these messages.

atlasobscura.com/articles/mark

#earlyinternet #internethistory #usenet #unsolvedmystery #markovianparallax

Last updated 2 years ago

Jussi T Eronen · @Jussi_T_Eronen
652 followers · 316 posts · Server mstdn.social

Excellent short piece about why Mastodon at the same time feels great and really not good enough - much like the early internet... and we need some kind of alternative way of financing this..

"if there’s a way out of corporate control of the internet, Tufekci suggests that it starts with money—both for financing alternative platforms and for creating paid jobs maintaining the underlying infrastructure on which the open internet depends."

daily.jstor.org/whatever-happe

#earlyinternet

Last updated 2 years ago

Carol_J · @carol_j
6 followers · 42 posts · Server mastodon.online

I’m so that my first work email addresses had a !

#earlyinternet #Oldtimer #old

Last updated 2 years ago

Robert Duncan McNeill · @robertdmcneill
1539 followers · 24 posts · Server mastodon.world

Does anyone remember this from the 90’s?

#earlyinternet #apple #flashback

Last updated 2 years ago

Jussi T Eronen · @Jussi_T_Eronen
297 followers · 149 posts · Server mstdn.social
Gtmlosangeles · @Gtmlosangeles
127 followers · 468 posts · Server kolektiva.social

@continuation favorite memory - playing Diplomacy with strangers on some server (I don’t remember names) pre-WWW.

#earlyinternet

Last updated 3 years ago

My first online community was , channel Portland in the 90s. We would even meet up IRL for dinners.

And here is my first website. It actually launched in 1994, the archive is a bit incomplete but what surprised me was how much it resonated with the authenticity of my self.

web.archive.org/web/1998012217

#earlyinternet #fediverse #irc

Last updated 3 years ago

One of the fun things I’ve noticed and genuinely enjoyed among fellow here is a love for parts of the early internet.

What’re your favourite memories and experiences?

#earlyinternet #fedizens

Last updated 3 years ago

Pixel 🍄 and the trans agenda · @pixouls
593 followers · 1343 posts · Server post.lurk.org

preservingworlds.net/

Preserving Worlds is a mini docu-series about aging virtual worlds from the in a "travelogue". In concept, it reminds me a lot of if50.substack.com/p/introducti

At the moment, I'm listening to it like a podcast essentially, every once in awhile turning my head to see fun polygon graphics.

originally posted by @lichen

#earlyinternet #nowplaying

Last updated 4 years ago