Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella reccomended ‘The Dream Machine’, a biography of J. C. R. Licklider. Licklider, a psychologist and computer scientist, pioneered human-computer interaction and networked computing in the 1950s and 1960s, influencing the development of personal computers, graphical user interfaces, artificial intelligence, and the World Wide Web.

#TheDreamMachine #JCRlicklider #InternetHistory

https://www.fastcompany.com/90938713/satya-nadella-book-lists-jcr-licklider?utm_source=flipboard&utm_content=HariTulsidas%2Fmagazine%2FMind+and+Matter

> ... the site’s original name, BackRub, was a reference to the backlinks it was using to rank results. If your site was linked to by other authoritative sites, it would place higher in the list than some random blog that no one was citing... #Google officially went online later in 1998.
“Google has gotten shittier and shittier.” - Alice Marwick
> ... [Because] the company turned on its #AdSense program.
- Anil Dash

https://www.theverge.com/23846048/google-search-memes-images-pagerank-altavista-seo-keywords
#BackRub #InternetHistory #AnilDash #AliceMarwick

#Wikipedia #NewMedia #InternetImaginaries #InternetHistory: "This paper presents a media biography of Wikipedia’s data that focuses on the interpretative flexibility of Wikipedia and digital knowledge between the years 2001 and 2022. To do so, I not only follow a strand of media historians who argue that the imagination is an important component for understanding how media change, but I also argue that Wikipedia’s data has been incorporated, re-imagined, and repurposed by sociotechnical projects in ways that have often been side-lined despite acting as the boundary lines of what is considered digital knowledge. It combines Patrice Flichy’s longitudinal theory of technical development as an imaginaire, Frederik Lesage and Simone Natale’s historical approach of biographies of media with an analysis of the interpretative flexibility of new media. Through an eclectic corpus of project websites, new articles, press releases, and blogs, I demonstrate the unexpected ways the online encyclopedia has permeated throughout digital culture over the past twenty years through projects like the Citizendium, Everipedia, Google Search and AI software. As a result of this analysis, I explain how this array of meanings and materials constitutes the Wikipedia imaginaire: a collective activity of sociotechnical development that is fundamental to understanding the ideological and utopian meaning of knowledge with digital culture."
https://doi.org/10.1080/24701475.2023.2246261

When was the first cat picture on the internet, or the web? This is the oldest known cat photograph, a daguerreotype from 160 - 180 years ago https://curiosity.lib.harvard.edu/daguerreotypes-at-harvard/catalog/17-W163341_URN-3:FHCLHOUGH:90792

and Steve Chen's video is the first cat video uploaded to YouTube in 2005 https://youtu.be/PvTmxDBxtLs?si=q326tG-3_WW5zZiv

But I feel like the first cat picture should be more well known?

#InternetHistory #Internet #Cats

#oslo #internethistory

Ars Technica: The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google https://arstechnica.com/?p=1960032 #Tech #arstechnica #IT #Technology #InternetArchive #internethistory #retrotech #archvies #linkrot #Biz&IT #google #Tech #CNET #SEO

The Internet is not forever after all: CNET deletes old articles to game Google - Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson)

CNET, one of the great-grandda... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1960032 #internetarchive #internethistory #retrotech #archvies #linkrot #biz⁢ #google #tech #cnet #seo

1) The world’s first internet cafe opened in London, England in 1994. Nearly 30 years later, Rest of World visits the few that remain and explores the history of web connectivity in Uganda, Nepal, Nigeria, Argentina, Mexico, and Hong Kong

https://restofworld.org/2023/internet-cafes/

#Retro #Internet #InternetHistory #CyberCafe #WebHistory

I have just discovered the personal website of #WendyCarlos, which hasn't been updated since 2008

it is such a charming, nostalgic look back at Web 1.0 #internethistory when it was a real pain to code your own site from scratch in HTML, and to upload everything using FTP, so you did it out of enthusiasm and a genuine desire to archive and connect

To me they're full of optimism and generosity and there's something charming about how unguarded they are

These sites became crazy warrens because you'd just add another page or section whenever you wanted, and there wasn't always a strong sitemap structure with clear pathways

Now the whole internet is falling to #enshittification I find real comfort in terrible old sites, with their repeating wallpaper backgrounds, galleries full of tiny photos, and heaps of different text sizes and colours

Carlos has a memorial page for her dad that I found quite moving. She writes:

"At first I couldn't bring myself to take the methodical steps to assemble another new section to this sprawling mess of a website that's my metaphorical home in the ether. Yet there was an indescribable warmth in knowing that after several of my friends and animal friends had passed on, their names and faces would continue to 'float about' in that internet ether. I know, that's soppy and silly, but I can't quite convince myself that there's not a spooky kinda 'magic' to it, as if an analog of a friendly ghost were thereby conjured from the depths of html++..."

She also has a photo gallery dedicated to her Siamese cats.

I hope Wendy is well. Wikipedia tells me that much of her discography is out of print and hasn't been licensed for digital formats. Carlos owns her copyright and is deliberately keeping it analog. I also note she has copyright watermarks on all the images on her site

https://www.wendycarlos.com/

When #IRC or #NNTP first started out, and they became available to the unwashed masses, were there discussions or debates on which channels or newsgroups would be "allowed" into a communities' servers?

I vaguely remember early days participating with those protocols(~'93-'96), but don't recall the contentious discussions(aside from the initial spam mitigations).

I'm sure they occured and we are "just" repeating history here in the Fediverse. #InternetHistory #socialmedia #EternalSeptember

How Google Reader Died
#internet #InternetHistory #SocialMedia https://www.theverge.com/23778253/google-reader-death-2013-rss-social

A brief history of the internet - Gain insights into the key milestones and trends that have shaped... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/a-brief-history-of-the-internet #evolutionoftheinternet #internethistory #mobileinternet #cloudcomputing #worldwideweb #socialmedia #arpanet

[#FridayReads] Did you know the Netherlands 🇳🇱 was the first European country connected to the internet?

Read this great article by @nemokennislink about the history of internet in the Netherlands and Dutch internet pioneers, including our CEO Erik Huizer @Milkshake and the major role he played in the protocol wars 👉 https://www.nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/en-toen-was-er-internet/

@SURF @ietf @nlnetlabs @SIDN @SIDNlabs

#Historyoftheinternet #internethistory #internet #internetpioneers #Netherlands

Congratulations @marleenstikker with this great news! De Digitale Stad (DDS), one of the first online communities ever, is now Unesco Heritage.

#internetHistory #communitybuilding

https://www.parool.nl/amsterdam/de-digitale-stad-van-marleen-stikker-is-nu-unesco-erfgoed-onlinegemeenschap-is-mijlpaal-in-internetgeschiedenis~bb268c8c/

Star Wars Gangsta Rap, original Flash video from 2000: https://youtu.be/Cp-Ys_iFwnM

#StarWars #MayTheFourth #MayTheFourthBeWithYou #Flash #2000s #InternetHistory

Dave Karpf takes on Chris Dixon's historical revisionism and creates a pretty nifty timeline of the Web in the process. Well worth the read, even if you're not looking for a crypto takedown.

#InternetHistory #ChrisDixon #DaveKarpf

https://davekarpf.substack.com/p/web3s-fake-version-of-the-history

RT @WebDesignMuseum
The very first video uploaded to YouTube
"Me at the zoo" by Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005.

YouTube archived version in 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20061208083125/http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DjNQXAC9IVRw

#InternetHistory

RT @WebDesignMuseum
The very first video uploaded to YouTube
"Me at the zoo" by Jawed Karim on April 23, 2005.

YouTube archived version in 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20061208083125/http://www.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DjNQXAC9IVRw

#InternetHistory

A big milestone in internet history. Although I’d been using text-based online resources for a few years, my first web experience was (IIRC) two years later, in spring 1995, probably on Mosaic.

#InternetHistory

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/110241899798439794

Mosaic's 30th anniversary. Just that. #InternetHistory