RE: https://stefanbohacek.online/@stefan/114426933389090151
The web entered public domain 33 years ago.
"Imagine being able to communicate at-will with 10 million people all over the world. Imagine having direct access to catalogs of hundreds of libraries [...].
This is not a dream. It's internet."
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/30/1172276538/world-wide-web-internet-anniversary
Here's @matthiasott on the importance of human curation in the world flooded by AI slop.
"So what becomes valuable, in a world like this? Not more content. We are drowning in content. What becomes valuable is someone you trust, saying: This is worth your time. Here’s why."
https://newsletter.ownyourweb.site/archive/own-your-web-issue-18-curators/
You know those back button-hijacking sites? Especially noticing this on mobile.
"Back button hijacking interferes with the browser's functionality, breaks the expected user journey, and results in user frustration."
Nice to see Google do something about this. Even if you don't use their search, this will still deter people from doing this.
A small victory for the web.
https://developers.google.com/search/blog/2026/04/back-button-hijacking
Armed with new powers to rein in the worst excesses of mobile's duopolists, regulators around the world are struggling to find their footing. The UK's CMA is only the latest to pose capitulation as success. Far from unlocking growth and dynamism, regulatory timidity is reducing enforcers' future room for manoeuvre and hampering home-grown competitors to Big Tech. Unleashing the web would fix a great deal of what's broken, but regulators are falling down on the job. It's time we spoke plainly about it.
"For seemingly no reason at all, thousands of people were telling stories about themselves, unguarded even against the background toxicity of internet comment sections. Many of them used the word “checkpoint.”"
https://longreads.com/2026/02/26/internet-checkpoint-taia777-donkey-kong/
An article from last year that celebrates the 40th anniversary of ".com".
"Four decades ago, the first domain was registered and the initial batch of top-level domains came to be. Nearly a billion domains have been registered since then."
https://www.dotcom.press/history-of-domains
"That's my belief. It just takes a bit of guidance and access to understandable knowledge. That word 'understandable,' it's important. You don't introduce people to website building by using geek-speak. You have to talk human to human..."
Me, teaching my undergrads about early web history.
"By the end of 1994, there were roughly 10,000 websites on the web. It was still early days and most of the websites were quite basic in structure."
Interesting perspective.
"The rush to vilify and eliminate the comment section ignored, as Ben notes, that a subscription to news outlets doesn’t just have to provide access to journalism, it can feature participation in journalism."
Via https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:xtg6uhgsy2j7k2a6qtcood2w/post/3mdxqtevkxc2x
Stefan Bohacek
Ecologia Digital
Mark A. Rayner
