Hacker News21,864 Yugoslavian .yu Domains
#HackerNews #YugoslavianDomains #.yuDomains #InternetHistory #DomainNames #TechNews
ResearchBuzz: FirehoseEngadget: Twitter turned 20 and I feel nothing. “It’s been 20 years since Jack Dorsey sent the first-ever tweet, which was never even a good tweet anyway. It’s been five years, by the way, since he turned that tweet into an NFT (remember NFTs??) and auctioned it for nearly $3 million. It’s now functionally worthless. Another chapter in Dorsey’s confusing, complicated legacy.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/03/26/engadget-twitter-turned-20-and-i-feel-nothing/
#Digital ⚓️ #Vagabond 🦈Fascinating interactive visualization of web history by Opera.
Thx @matteusbeus for the link!
#InternetHistory #WebArchives #digipres #Enshittification #DH
Reel TubesA timely panel on why web archiving is a civic duty — researchers, archivists, activists and citizens discuss preserving our digital history. Practical tips, ethics, and why this matters for memory and democracy. Inspiring and actionable! #WebArchiving #DigitalPreservation #Archives #CivicDuty #OpenAccess #DigitalRights #InternetHistory #Archiving #English
https://video.rhizome.org/videos/watch/77f762bd-1322-4c86-b8af-52428909f993
https://video.rhizome.org/videos/watch/77f762bd-1322-4c86-b8af-52428909f993
Ethics and Archiving the Web: Web Archiving as Civic Duty
Will Brienjust seeing the phrase “Network Solutions” gets me angry immediately, like the polar opposite of water under the bridge - fuck this company with a rake #domainregistry #internethistory #rant #old https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_Solutions
draftdInternet Infrastructure Walks #LDN in April, May, and June.
https://rifio.dev/events/by/Internet%20Infrastructure%20Walks
#WebHistory #WWW #InternetHistory #Infrastructure #Maintenance
Brian Greenberg 
You probably think your data floats through the air. It actually sits in the mud. Engineers are currently pulling the world's first fiber-optic ocean cable off the Atlantic floor. TAT-8 changed the world in 1988 by turning your voice into pulses of light. It only lasted 14 years before it broke, but it proved we could wire the planet. We're recycling the metals now. Workers have to coil the glass fibers by hand on a ship to prevent them from snapping. It's a reminder that our life depends on thin strands of glass sitting in the dark.
🧠 TAT-8 carried 40,000 phone calls at once.
⚡ Sharks used to bite the early trial cables.
🎓 The ship crew is recycling 1,012 km of line.
https://www.wired.com/story/say-goodbye-to-the-undersea-cable-that-made-the-global-internet-possible/
#InternetHistory #Technology #Telecoms
internetarchive🎬 The Oscars celebrate movie history, but their website has a history too.
Take a trip back to the early web with this vintage capture of oscars․org, preserved in the #WaybackMachine.
See how Hollywood’s biggest night's site appeared online 30 years ago ⤵️
https://web.archive.org/web/19961229154935/https://www.oscars.org/
The Internet is CrackFrom Tech Utopia to Reality
The internet once felt like a utopian space for knowledge and connection. But history shows a pattern: powerful technologies begin with promise before their darker uses appear.
Dr. Randolph R. Lewis on technology, culture, and his book Bummerland.
🎧 Watch the full episode: https://youtu.be/s2_XY3-mBrg