#earlyweb — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #earlyweb, aggregated by home.social.
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Speaking of #JoachimLuetke, his website is still online and still features the peak of the #earlyweb in this very polished and advanced #art way, right before it all spiralled downwards.
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1997 Nintendo: Iconic Vintage Drop
Dive into the 1997 digital frontier with this Nintendo 64 magazine feature, reviewing pioneering fan websites like 'N64 Code Centre' and 'Bowsers Pipeline.'
#nintendo #nintendo64 #n64 #internetguide #1997 #90s #retrogaming #retrotech #earlyweb #digitalfrontier #gamingwebsites #nostalgia #n64codecentre #bowserspipeline #webhistory #vintagegaming -
Web pioneer Cath Le Couteur on digital utopias, closing Shooting People, film collectives & the future.
> "I'm not an anti-tech person. Shooters was built on technology. But I am mindful that we want technology that doesn't extract, technology that enables people." Long before social networks and smart phones in the mid-90s, Cath entered the world's first cyber-cafe in Soho, London to message a cyber-girlfriend in Australia. There she met Cyberia's founder Eva Pascoe, and joined the woman-owned company that shaped the early-90s UK web-scene. Next she went to BBC Online, still a quirky start-up at the BBC figuring out How To Internet, befriended the late Jess Search who started producing her films. Using London Filmmakers Coop to borrow their kit they have a Big Idea – what if the film coop culture of filmmakers helping each other, met the Usenet lists, forums and chat-rooms Cath encountered at Cyberia? So together they founded Shooting People in 1998, a daily email bulletin running on GNU Mailman. It began with 60 email addresses and grew… -
Web pioneer Cath Le Couteur on digital utopias, closing Shooting People, film collectives & the future.
> "I'm not an anti-tech person. Shooters was built on technology. But I am mindful that we want technology that doesn't extract, technology that enables people." Long before social networks and smart phones in the mid-90s, Cath entered the world's first cyber-cafe in Soho, London to message a cyber-girlfriend in Australia. There she met Cyberia's founder Eva Pascoe, and joined the woman-owned company that shaped the early-90s UK web-scene. Next she went to BBC Online, still a quirky start-up at the BBC figuring out How To Internet, befriended the late Jess Search who started producing her films. Using London Filmmakers Coop to borrow their kit they have a Big Idea – what if the film coop culture of filmmakers helping each other, met the Usenet lists, forums and chat-rooms Cath encountered at Cyberia? So together they founded Shooting People in 1998, a daily email bulletin running on GNU Mailman. It began with 60 email addresses and grew… -
Web pioneer Cath Le Couteur on digital utopias, closing Shooting People, film collectives & the future.
> "I'm not an anti-tech person. Shooters was built on technology. But I am mindful that we want technology that doesn't extract, technology that enables people." Long before social networks and smart phones in the mid-90s, Cath entered the world's first cyber-cafe in Soho, London to message a cyber-girlfriend in Australia. There she met Cyberia's founder Eva Pascoe, and joined the woman-owned company that shaped the early-90s UK web-scene. Next she went to BBC Online, still a quirky start-up at the BBC figuring out How To Internet, befriended the late Jess Search who started producing her films. Using London Filmmakers Coop to borrow their kit they have a Big Idea – what if the film coop culture of filmmakers helping each other, met the Usenet lists, forums and chat-rooms Cath encountered at Cyberia? So together they founded Shooting People in 1998, a daily email bulletin running on GNU Mailman. It began with 60 email addresses and grew… -
Web pioneer Cath Le Couteur on digital utopias, closing Shooting People, film collectives & the future.
> "I'm not an anti-tech person. Shooters was built on technology. But I am mindful that we want technology that doesn't extract, technology that enables people." Long before social networks and smart phones in the mid-90s, Cath entered the world's first cyber-cafe in Soho, London to message a cyber-girlfriend in Australia. There she met Cyberia's founder Eva Pascoe, and joined the woman-owned company that shaped the early-90s UK web-scene. Next she went to BBC Online, still a quirky start-up at the BBC figuring out How To Internet, befriended the late Jess Search who started producing her films. Using London Filmmakers Coop to borrow their kit they have a Big Idea – what if the film coop culture of filmmakers helping each other, met the Usenet lists, forums and chat-rooms Cath encountered at Cyberia? So together they founded Shooting People in 1998, a daily email bulletin running on GNU Mailman. It began with 60 email addresses and grew… -
Web pioneer Cath Le Couteur on digital utopias, closing Shooting People, film collectives & the future.
> "I'm not an anti-tech person. Shooters was built on technology. But I am mindful that we want technology that doesn't extract, technology that enables people." Long before social networks and smart phones in the mid-90s, Cath entered the world's first cyber-cafe in Soho, London to message a cyber-girlfriend in Australia. There she met Cyberia's founder Eva Pascoe, and joined the woman-owned company that shaped the early-90s UK web-scene. Next she went to BBC Online, still a quirky start-up at the BBC figuring out How To Internet, befriended the late Jess Search who started producing her films. Using London Filmmakers Coop to borrow their kit they have a Big Idea – what if the film coop culture of filmmakers helping each other, met the Usenet lists, forums and chat-rooms Cath encountered at Cyberia? So together they founded Shooting People in 1998, a daily email bulletin running on GNU Mailman. It began with 60 email addresses and grew… -
The early web was driven by curiosity, openness, and play, not monetization. Creativity flourished because experimentation was encouraged.
Creator Audrey Witters reflects on that era, using her now-famous animated alien GIF as an example of how playful, freely-shared work helped shape digital culture—and why preserving it still matters.
Learn more ⤵️ https://blog.archive.org/2025/12/22/audrey-witters/
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Vol. 2, issue 27 of Johto Times is now available!
Today I'm sharing an interview with Meowth346 of Pokémon Forever, an English language hobby and fan site which ran between January 1999–June 2005.
Plus, the latest Pokémon news, and more from the mailbag
https://johto.substack.com/p/vol2-27
#Pokemon #Gamedev #Research #90s #2000s #Web #Earlyweb #Nintendo #Meowth #Meowth346 #PokemonForever #Writing #WritingCommunity #Newsletter
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"There were no books on web design, no best practices."
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-innovative-designs-of-1995/
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@william_shotts Shortly after I tried out Mosaic (the first publicly available web browser) for the first time, I was in the university computer Sun lab and a guy was showing his girlfriend the web.
She asked "what is this?" and he said "it's like Gopher, but for lazy people."
That always stuck with me.
The Retro Computing Roundtable podcast, of which I am one of several hosts, offers its contents via Gopher (...and the web, too).
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A great follow-up from @Jayhoffmann!
"1995 was the web’s single most important inflection point."
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/1995-was-the-most-important-year-for-the-web/
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"As the internet became more interactive over 1995, it became a more attractive place for musicians to set up a web presence. David Bowie was one of the first to do this."
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"At the beginning of 1995, the internet was still largely the domain of academic-minded geeks and Silicon Valley hippies. But the culture at large was increasingly taking notice of cyberspace.
Throughout 1995, millions more people went online and thousands of companies bought “dot com” domain names.
The web was now open for business."
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> The HTML <marquee> element is deprecated and its use is strongly discouraged.
This brings back memories ... of less than great web-design in the 90s.
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Agreed.
*wistful sigh*
At least we can still resize unstyled <textarea> to our hearts' content. :blobcathyper:
Hat tip to the brilliant @mcc for this WILD tale of the early days . . .
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What is MyWebFriends?! Introduction to a new social network.
Hello everyone! ❤
This is the administrator of MyWebFriends.online, and I'd like to talk a bit about the concept of this little social network that will launch properly in a couple of days.
What makes MyWebFriends unique?
We are an invite-only, new #Friendica instance. If you are reading this on another software (e. g. Mastodon); it's basically to early Facebook what #Mastodon is to Twitter.
We are trying to do some things differently from other #Fediverse communities.
This is what #MyWebFriends aims for:- We are trying to emulate the feeling and UX of early real life- and hobby-focused all-rounder social networks such as #Facebook, #Myspace or #MeinVZ.
- We are actually utilizing groups, circles, photo timelines, calendars and all other Friendica features to their full potential, and are strongly encouraging our users to make use of them.
- Users are encouraged to treat this as a site about their hobbies, special interests, projects, daily real lives and families and friends, rather than a totally anonymous shoutbox mostly centered around the internet, global politics, news and media.
- We are chasing an early 2000s #Y2K or #frutigeraero vibe in aesthetic and interaction. The #EarlyWeb was not perfect, but a cozier place for many than today's WWW. Our theme is unfortunately not yet implemented due to compatibility issues between it and the software version, but we are working on it. #FediHelp is appreciated. ;O
- We are focusing on fostering a tight-knit strong local community over interacting with the #Fediverse as a whole - since the vast majority of the Fediverse by now consists of Mastodon and similar microblogging systems, and Friendica has a very different feature set. Also, this is necessary to get to the critical mass needed to actually populate a community with such a focus.
Moderation and Content
We offer an actively moderated community with a somewhat restrictive ruleset needed to foster a positive, personal space.
For example, political posts and venting are generally discouraged and only allowed as an open-ended discussion format, questions and similar interactive content; as opposed to simply publishing an opinion into the void, posting a link without further commentary, or sharing whatever terrible stuff is happening around the globe.
We believe there are a lot of sources for information, news and activism out there, and MyWebFriends does not want to become a space of negativity, opinion window shopping and anxiety. Of course we do our best to moderate away bigotry, and hate is not a valid opinion in our book, so do not worry about being silenced when you mention or discuss your identity that other people unfortunately politicize.
We know that this is not the way all open social networks should be run of course, and you're free to disagree or dislike these things of course. We are just trying to offer an alternative to the way the #Fediverse at large has ended up being like now, mainly also due to the almost-monopoly of Mastodon. More choice is always better, we think! :)
Reshares are always welcome! :bow:
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Couple of bits about Todd Rundgren’s foray into online fan club and patronage models. Much less documented than the #DavidBowie one. 👩🏻🎤
“The reason I signed up is the reason I hate it.”
Todd dials up even while being smart enough to full well know the basic risk that “I’ll never get back the time that I waste.”
https://www.popmatters.com/rundgrentodd-one-2496045818.html
https://youtu.be/P-R2YG3U1nc?si=Ei6H3XYYfAW7F1Bv
#EarlyWeb #Music #Musodon #ToddRundgren #Tech #RetroTech #InternetHistory #Histodon #Histodons #Musician #TechNews #Archive #Musicians
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Today I've been reading and watching several things on #BowieNet, because I thought there were some interesting parallels with smaller online spaces and servers now (and the Billboard article mentions Todd Rundgren, who is just cool). 👨🎤
https://www.techradar.com/pro/cyberspace-oddity-the-story-of-bowienet
https://www.billboard.com/pro/bowienet-david-bowie-pioneering-online-fan-club-isp/
#RetroTech #Bowie #EarlyWeb #Fediverse #ToddRundgren #Music #90s #WebHistory #Histodon #Histodons #Longreads #Musodon #DavidBowie
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The challenge of preserving good data in the age of AI https://undark.org/2024/09/26/opinion-challenge-of-preserving-good-data-ai
#data #DigitalPreservation #history #future #PhysicalMedia #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #EarlyWeb #ChatGPT #AI
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Something else from I-D magazine, much later this time (1994). This is about the early underground tech scene which seemed to grow out of the DIY culture and networking movement, and leaned in to punk/political heritage. Matt Fuller and Scanner featured. Kept this mostly out of vanity as Matt has my poster up behind him.
#retrotechnology #earlyweb #idmagazine #paperposts #1990s -
#Business #Explorations
We can have a different web · “We can restore the things we loved about the old web.” https://ilo.im/15yquf_____
#OpenWeb #IndieWeb #SmallWeb #EarlyWeb #Website #Blog #Design #WebDesign #Development #WebDiv -
Vol. 2, issue 16 of the Johto Times is now available! This week, an interview with Jaxel from the Universal Pokémon Network, an exceptionally popular fan website that was online between 1999 - 2001. Plus, a recap of the latest Pokémon news!
https://johto.substack.com/p/vol2-16
#Pokemon #90s #2000s #Earlyweb #Internet #Nostalgia #Nintendo #Newsletter #Writing #WritingCommunity
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In 1995, the Colorado town where I was attending high school hosted the first annual Digital Storytelling Festival.
One of the sponsors was "The Net" magazine, long since defunct. As part of the festival, a couple employees of The Net came to our high school and taught us HTML.
A recent bout of nostalgia led me to searching for issues of The Net magazine on eBay, but then I remembered to check the
@internetarchiveHere's the very first issue: https://archive.org/details/TheNet01Jun1995/
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Issue 33 of the Johto Times is now available! This week, we are sharing an interview with the legendary Pokémon fan website: PKMN.NET that originally began in 1999/2000! We also have the latest Pokémon news and more from the mailbag!
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I know it's going around, but one of my big new hobbies is just randomly clicking on my bookmark for https://wiby.me/surprise, which sends you to a random web 1.0 website.
It's fascinating. Websites pop up like this screengrab that's attached, a guy made a website and put a list of comic book characters in songs he documented on it.
Really weird stuff, too.
Old personal websites GALORE. Try it out - but beware, it's addictive. 😂
#WebHistory #HTMLSites #PersonalWebsites #HTML #IndieWeb #EarlyWeb
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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.
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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 />
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I know it's going around, but one of my big new hobbies is just randomly clicking on my bookmark for https://wiby.me/surprise, which sends you to a random web 1.0 website.
It's fascinating. Websites pop up like this screengrab that's attached, a guy made a website and put a list of comic book characters in songs he documented on it.
Really weird stuff, too.
Old personal websites GALORE. Try it out - but beware, it's addictive. 😂
#WebHistory #HTMLSites #PersonalWebsites #HTML #IndieWeb #EarlyWeb
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I know it's going around, but one of my big new hobbies is just randomly clicking on my bookmark for https://wiby.me/surprise, which sends you to a random web 1.0 website.
It's fascinating. Websites pop up like this screengrab that's attached, a guy made a website and put a list of comic book characters in songs he documented on it.
Really weird stuff, too.
Old personal websites GALORE. Try it out - but beware, it's addictive. 😂
#WebHistory #HTMLSites #PersonalWebsites #HTML #IndieWeb #EarlyWeb
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I know it's going around, but one of my big new hobbies is just randomly clicking on my bookmark for https://wiby.me/surprise, which sends you to a random web 1.0 website.
It's fascinating. Websites pop up like this screengrab that's attached, a guy made a website and put a list of comic book characters in songs he documented on it.
Really weird stuff, too.
Old personal websites GALORE. Try it out - but beware, it's addictive. 😂
#WebHistory #HTMLSites #PersonalWebsites #HTML #IndieWeb #EarlyWeb
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I know it's going around, but one of my big new hobbies is just randomly clicking on my bookmark for https://wiby.me/surprise, which sends you to a random web 1.0 website.
It's fascinating. Websites pop up like this screengrab that's attached, a guy made a website and put a list of comic book characters in songs he documented on it.
Really weird stuff, too.
Old personal websites GALORE. Try it out - but beware, it's addictive. 😂
#WebHistory #HTMLSites #PersonalWebsites #HTML #IndieWeb #EarlyWeb
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Vol. 2, issue 27 of Johto Times is now available!
Today I'm sharing an interview with Meowth346 of Pokémon Forever, an English language hobby and fan site which ran between January 1999–June 2005.
Plus, the latest Pokémon news, and more from the mailbag
https://johto.substack.com/p/vol2-27
#Pokemon #Gamedev #Research #90s #2000s #Web #Earlyweb #Nintendo #Meowth #Meowth346 #PokemonForever #Writing #WritingCommunity #Newsletter
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Vol. 2, issue 27 of Johto Times is now available!
Today I'm sharing an interview with Meowth346 of Pokémon Forever, an English language hobby and fan site which ran between January 1999–June 2005.
Plus, the latest Pokémon news, and more from the mailbag
https://johto.substack.com/p/vol2-27
#Pokemon #Gamedev #Research #90s #2000s #Web #Earlyweb #Nintendo #Meowth #Meowth346 #PokemonForever #Writing #WritingCommunity #Newsletter
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Vol. 2, issue 27 of Johto Times is now available!
Today I'm sharing an interview with Meowth346 of Pokémon Forever, an English language hobby and fan site which ran between January 1999–June 2005.
Plus, the latest Pokémon news, and more from the mailbag
https://johto.substack.com/p/vol2-27
#Pokemon #Gamedev #Research #90s #2000s #Web #Earlyweb #Nintendo #Meowth #Meowth346 #PokemonForever #Writing #WritingCommunity #Newsletter
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Vol. 2, issue 27 of Johto Times is now available!
Today I'm sharing an interview with Meowth346 of Pokémon Forever, an English language hobby and fan site which ran between January 1999–June 2005.
Plus, the latest Pokémon news, and more from the mailbag
https://johto.substack.com/p/vol2-27
#Pokemon #Gamedev #Research #90s #2000s #Web #Earlyweb #Nintendo #Meowth #Meowth346 #PokemonForever #Writing #WritingCommunity #Newsletter
