#webhistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #webhistory, aggregated by home.social.
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Why RSS Never Really Died
RSS never died; it quietly kept working while the rest of the web became more centralized, algorithmic, and controlled. -
🚫📚 Oh no, blocking the Internet Archive is like trying to stop a tsunami with a colander while AI chuckles in the background. Meanwhile, the web's historical record gasps its last breath as the #EFF throws a party for its 35th—with free "Mission Accomplished" hats for all! 🎉🤦♂️
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/blocking-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-it-will-erase-webs-historical-record #InternetArchive #35thAnniversary #DigitalPreservation #AIImpact #WebHistory #HackerNews #ngated -
Erin Malone — author, design historian, and Chair of Interaction Design at CCA — discusses building Kodak’s first website in the mid-1990s and gives a look at that site, now preserved in the #WaybackMachine.
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Today I ran across @ricmac and his new, truly expansive piece on the history of (the admittedly centralized) GeoCities and its origins.
I had a GeoCities site myself in the 90s (that is sadly lost to time now), and I didn't know all this wild history Richard dug up for this.
A must-read if you're into the whole 90s early web thing: https://cybercultural.com/p/geocities-1995
#GeoCities #HTML #90s #90sWeb #1990s #SmallWeb #BHI #BeverlyHillsInternet #history #WebHistory
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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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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