Chema Hernández GilMay 5, 2025
I mostly grew up without a computer at home, but public terminals, old Macs, and a high school programming teacher gave me access.

That access shaped how I see the politics of tech to this day.

https://blog.sanfranciscan.org/2025/05/04/before-our-attention-was-a-commodity/

#PreWeb #OpenWeb #Technology #Linux #Macintosh
Before our Attention Was a Commodity: Memories of a Pre-Web Internet

How public terminals, old Macs, and a programming teacher shaped my political imagination and tech skills.

Chema Hernández Gil, A San Franciscan
Blake PattersonApr 12, 2025

@william_shotts Shortly after I tried out Mosaic (the first publicly available web browser) for the first time, I was in the university computer Sun lab and a guy was showing his girlfriend the web.

She asked "what is this?" and he said "it's like Gopher, but for lazy people."

That always stuck with me.

The Retro Computing Roundtable podcast, of which I am one of several hosts, offers its contents via Gopher (...and the web, too).

gopher://rcrpodcast.com

#gopher #preweb #web #earlyweb