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 threadBart GrahamDec 10, 2022
@digitalrodent @annaleen
Yes! I completely forgot about those.Didn't it have a random button?
Show threadPrairie_Dog
@mawrter @annaleen Yes, thinking about it I think many of them did.
Dec 10, 2022 at 9:44amWeb