This Verge article about Google Reader kinda made me depressed. I feel so lucky to have grown up in the aughts and to used the early internet. It was like a cool world you could dive in and find cool stuff and meet new people. It's so sad to see the distopian future we live now. Sure, I have a 1GB/s connection on my phone, but was everything really worth it? #googlereader #internet #web #earlyweb #verge #google

Trailer: New Homestar Runner Dangeresque Games!
They're not out yet, but the Brothers Chaps, creators, maintainers, and sometimes even makers of Homestar Runner stuff, have some remakes of their old Dangeresque Flash games in the works, now with updated (in some cases completed in the first place) con
https://setsideb.com/trailer-new-homestar-runner-dangeresque-games/
#indies #adventure #dangeresque #earlyweb #homestarrunner #indie #itchio #pointandclick #steam #strongbad #video #youtube

going through some old old backups.... this was on my homepage a while back.

#nostalgia #90s #earlyweb #netscape

Younger folks might not remember this, but in the late 90s, pretty much all social media platforms abandoned XHTML because HTML5 doesn't require you to close your hash tags <#EarlyWeb />

Younger folks might not remember this, but in the late 90s, pretty much all social media platforms abandoned XHTML because HTML4 doesn't require you to close your hash tags <#EarlyWeb />

Anyone else remember the (relatively) early web Center For The Easily Amused? That site deserves a web museum #nostalgia #earlyweb #archive

and in fact blown through, you can sustain that wonderful feeling so many of us old heads keep saying reminds us of the #earlyweb (or in my case, online interactions predating that). But at a certain velocity of interaction, past a certain upper bound of interlocutors, conversation becomes first difficult, and then effectively impossible. The platform becomes a broadcast medium, posts become transmissions, heavily-followed accounts become gurus (and get reposted over & over, until their thoughts