#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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"There were no books on web design, no best practices."
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-innovative-designs-of-1995/
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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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"There were no books on web design, no best practices."
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/the-innovative-designs-of-1995/
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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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"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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@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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@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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@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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@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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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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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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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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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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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"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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> 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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> 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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> 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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> 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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I found a directory of my first website, a local culture site, begun 30 years ago.
In these dial-up days the index page specified the size of each page, usually under 10k.
I recall using CorelDraw from a mag cover disk to create an ugly front page logo. The version I found is slightly later, with an animated GIF giving a blinky logo, which seemed exciting at the time. The world remained unimpressed.
There's a backup on a floppy somewhere, so maybe the earlier site can be retrieved. -
I found a directory of my first website, a local culture site, begun 30 years ago.
In these dial-up days the index page specified the size of each page, usually under 10k.
I recall using CorelDraw from a mag cover disk to create an ugly front page logo. The version I found is slightly later, with an animated GIF giving a blinky logo, which seemed exciting at the time. The world remained unimpressed.
There's a backup on a floppy somewhere, so maybe the earlier site can be retrieved. -
I found a directory of my first website, a local culture site, begun 30 years ago.
In these dial-up days the index page specified the size of each page, usually under 10k.
I recall using CorelDraw from a mag cover disk to create an ugly front page logo. The version I found is slightly later, with an animated GIF giving a blinky logo, which seemed exciting at the time. The world remained unimpressed.
There's a backup on a floppy somewhere, so maybe the earlier site can be retrieved. -
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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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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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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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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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 . . .
