Forget your TikTok scroll, the real obsession is unearthing forgotten internet relics. Hyper-Niche Digital Archaeology is consuming our feeds like a long-lost Geocities guestbook. What weirdness have you dug up lately?

#DigitalArchaeology #InternetLore #WebNostalgia #LostInternet #TumblrVibes #ObscureInternet #DigitalRelics #InternetHistory #NicheObsession #DeepDive #AltInternet #literallyme #webscavenging #internetRabbithole #shitpostingculture #unearthingthepast

I just wanted to share a (not so late) night rant with you.
In three days, the Italian web portal Libero.it is going to shut down thousands of early blogs that were originally created through the platform ItaliaOnline and later rebranded as Digilander.
I think this is a paradigmatic case of what we are going to experience more and more often in the near future. 1/

#digitaloblivion #webarchiving #Digilander #Italianwebhistory
#lostinternet #earlyblogs

Cory Doctorow mourns the "lost" internet like a pirate missing his parrot 🦜, while LWN.net desperately peddles subscriptions like it's the last bread at a bakery sale 🍞. Oh, the #irony of #paywalls lamenting the demise of free access! 😂
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1021871/4bec46993258f6b7/ #CoryDoctorow #LostInternet #FreeAccess #HackerNews #ngated
Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet

Cory Doctorow wears many hats: digital activist, science-fiction author, journalist, and more. [...]

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