Annalee Newitz 🍜Dec 10, 2022
Internet evolution:
Usenet: find your people! there are a few dozen of them on rec.arts.funny!
Listservs: find your people! there are 100 of them on this obscure list devoted to Marxist cultural criticism!
Blogs: find your people! each time one of them visits your site, your counter will increment! look! it has reached four digits!
Social media: find your people! there are several million strangers who are calling you names!
Post-social media: find your people! there are several dozen of them!
Show threadPrairie_DogDec 10, 2022
@annaleen This reminded me of Web Rings! They allowed all of the websites that had a specific type of content to link to each other. That way all of the the niche sites dedicated to a obscure thing could help each other.
Show threadAnnalee Newitz 🍜
@digitalrodent I was just thinking about webrings ... it was a li'l bit like federated media
Dec 10, 2022 at 12:43amWeb
Show threadPrairie_DogDec 10, 2022
@annaleen You’re right! The internet of the past become the internet of the future?
Show threadAnnalee Newitz 🍜Dec 10, 2022
@digitalrodent humans are always vacillating between megacities and villages
Show threadJohn HaydenDec 10, 2022
@annaleen @digitalrodent feels like we're all walking away from Tikal back into the lush 9th c forest, like, let's just us set up a couple nice 2br huts and a firepit, f*ck that blood sacrifice back there
Show threadBill SeitzDec 10, 2022
@jhayden @annaleen @digitalrodent
Gone To Croatan
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Gone To Croatan

Gone To Croatan

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Show threadDoc Edward Morbius ⭕​Dec 10, 2022

@annaleen And mostly ending up in the suburbs.

@digitalrodent

Show threadRachael BahlDec 10, 2022
@annaleen @digitalrodent I uttered an “oh yes!” at the mention of web rings. But annaleen had me at ‘Usenet’: aus.tv.x-files friends are still an important part of my life. 💜
Show threadPaul HornDec 10, 2022

@ozbandicoot @annaleen @digitalrodent I muttered an “oh, dear God … web rings *were* a thing!” at that mention.

Now I want to dig out my first couple gifs from way back …

Show threadPaul HornDec 10, 2022

@ozbandicoot @digitalrodent @annaleen found my ISP from the time period. Have to find the link to my home page.

I think the best I could get at my house was Verizon Silver. Too far away from the central office to get anything faster.

Show threadRachael BahlDec 13, 2022
@nrohluap @annaleen @digitalrodent That's kind of what I meant too Paul. My friend's geocities site was part of a webring. I never had enough patience for them.
Show threadBill SeitzDec 10, 2022
@annaleen @digitalrodent paging @lmorchard
Show threadLes OrchardDec 10, 2022
@billseitz @annaleen @digitalrodent y’all wanna join my fedi-ring? 😅 https://fediverse-webring-enthusiasts.glitch.me/
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Show threadJeff MarkelDec 11, 2022
@annaleen @digitalrodent
Usenet WAS federated media