CLondoner92 (New Account)Who remembers the #London #Transport website in 1996? πππ⦡ π₯οΈ
"Best viewed in Netscape!" π
#RetroWeb #90sInternet #WebDesignHistory #InternetHistory #TfL
PurpleJillybeans 
What ever happened to #VRML? Is anyone out there still playing around with it? π€
N-gated Hacker NewsAh, "Project Gemini"βthe hipster of the internet world, where interconnected text documents are the artisanal kombucha. π΅β¨ It's not about innovation; it's about crafting a digital nostalgia trip for those who are just too disrupted by the modern web. So grab your monocle and enjoy this lightweight retro web space thatβs more "meh" than "wow." π§π
https://geminiprotocol.net/ #ProjectGemini #DigitalNostalgia #RetroWeb #InterconnectedDocuments #HipsterInternet #KombuchaVibes #HackerNews #ngated
https://geminiprotocol.net/ #ProjectGemini #DigitalNostalgia #RetroWeb #InterconnectedDocuments #HipsterInternet #KombuchaVibes #HackerNews #ngated
Moody Warlock
Nick SimsonIβm late (20 years late) to the Vernacular Web article by Olia Lialina: https://art.teleportacia.org/observation/vernacular/
And part two (18 years ago): https://contemporary-home-computing.org/vernacular-web-2/
And part three (Prof. Dr. Style), from 15 years ago: https://contemporary-home-computing.org/prof-dr-style/
Better late than never. Remarkable to see these essays still intact, even if many of the hyperlinks are broken.
adastraFear of the personal
This sounds silly from someone having a personal blog, but Iβm sometimes having a hard time writing personal things on my blog. How ironic, right? I think this fear stems from having written a mountain of incredibly cringey personal things in the first incarnations of my blog, having made very complicated social experiences in the past, and to some degree, from where Iβm from.
I used to [β¦]
Fear of the personal
This sounds silly from someone having a personal blog, but I'm sometimes having a hard time writing personal things on my blog. How ironic, right? I think this fear stems from having written a mountain of incredibly cringey personal things in the first incarnations of my blog, having made very complicated social experiences in the past, and to some degree, from where I'm from. I used to write literally just what I was thinking in my blog between 2005 and 2008 (and also before that, but on a web 1.0 website rather than a blog). This was a completely disorganized [...]
One of my ongoing #RetroComputing projects is maintaining a vintage #RetroWeb / #GopherProtocol server based on OpenBSD 3.0.
Web (clear): http://geryon.n8fq.org
Web (modern SSL): https://geryon.n8fq.org
Web (vintage SSL): https://geryon.n8fq.org:30443
Gopher: gopher://geryon.n8fq.org
I decided to rename my #RetroWeb / #GopherProtocol server from lucifer.n8fq.org to geryon.n8fq.org, in keeping with my emerging theme of naming computers after Nethack characters.
Joe CrawfordI learned last night that @ross has a #Tildeverse website. Today I added a Friends section https://tilde.club/~artlung/ (I added @gregorlove.com and @vanderwal too) #IndieWeb #retroweb
Who else do I know from the world and Zooms with Tilde sites? https://indieweb.org/tilde