#twitch just showed me notifications for #amazon 's #luna
and they're doing the funny thing that I'm "observing" with many "digital products":

They don't actually tell you what the product is.

It's just "included with prime", but there is also "luna premium" but then NO mention about what that means again.

Even if I wanted to buy it, I can't even find a button where I would buy it?

#games #gaming #gamedev

#informationsuperhighway I guess

One day in the mid-90s, my phone rang, and when I answered, the voice on the other end said, "Hello. This is the information superhighway calling."

I held the receiver out in front of me and stared at it, wondering if I was dreaming. #EarlyInternet #90s #InformationSuperHighway

@billyjoebowers

I remember why!
Alta Vista was the search engine of the day.

Then Google popped up, and it was super effective. And for a long while, 6-12 months it was only something folks in the know used.

So by "googling" it, you were one of the #digerati

The in crowd.

#ancients #InformationSuperHighway

this is the website of a trillion dollar company

#lol #only90skidsremember #designismypassion #html #worldwideweb #webdevelopment #informationsuperhighway

https://berkshirehathaway.com/

Circa 1997 i'd guess, it was when he was running NeXT Computer, who's operating system eventually become OS X.

"Steve Jobs talking about the web on CNN"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhBNHy8BYLg

#www #web #internet #InformationSuperhighway #SteveJobs

When I was 9 years old I saw MS Chat for the first time, a chatroom with black and white avatars and what people said would show up as comic panels, and I was obsessed. It seemed SO COOL.

Later as an adult I found out it's an IRC client - it uses the IRC protocol but sends additional data for the avatar support like emote.

Pesterchum, the instant messenger, is also built off IRC.

Kind of obsessed with reusing protocols in new ways.

#OldWeb #IRC #InformationSuperhighway

Part of me will always live in 1998. The information super-highway is still a world of endless possibilities, where anybody can have their own website. If I don't like one website, I can just visit a different one today, or even make my own. A social media site is still only one website among billions. The internet is so much bigger. Each of us makes it bigger. The cyberspace utopia lives in my heart.

#internet #retro #RetroInternet #cyberspace #InformationSuperhighway #IndieWeb

My aunt found this old newspaper clipping.

This was the first website that I built for someone other than myself.

#webdev #informationsuperhighway

Are YOU ready for the INTERNET?
#BBC #TomorrowsWorld #InformationSuperHighway

https://youtu.be/XpZ5STahhPE?si=ryGO-SBCgzmR4TDd