When I think early 2000s I think Jagex Games Domain Castle.
Internet Artifacts
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#122Nice site. I miss the pre social media, pre-hypercommercial, pre mass surveillance Internet of old. It was mostly the product of genuine, sincere self-expression. Now it feels and even works like an infomercial, a scam, everywhere you look, filled to the brim with grifters and corporations trying to take ahold of your attention (and money). It's disgusting and inefficient at almost anything you attempt to do on it be…
Check out the simpler Internet through the gemini protocol [0]. It's lightweight on purpose, and the capsules (gemini "sites") are mostly text. There are aggregators [1] and even search [2].
0: https://geminiprotocol.net/
1: gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/
2: Gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/
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#123Lots of great memories beautifully bottled up and impeccably presented (as we've come to expect from Neal). I was hoping the million dollar homepage would be included, and wasn't disappointed. :-) Did anyone else notice how the audio stops playing when you slide to the next screen, except for zombo.com ? Haha. Related Artifacts: "Here comes another bubble" - https://youtube.com/watch?v=SvmNDym6CvQ (dotcom startup boo…
Instant messaging apps like ICQ for example.
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#124the site design is beautiful
And I didn't notice at first, but many of the exhibits are interactive. For example the entry of the Hacker's Dictionary looks like just a picture of a terminal with an entry from the dictionary displayed, but the image is "live" and you can scroll through the entire dictionary!
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#125would be cool for it to be less west/america-centric.
Here are some staples of the 2000s runet that I recall (haven't been there since then really)
- bash.org.ru, IT and programmer humor site that produced some classic memes (I know of the American one, but this one was its own thing)
- Masyanya, popular flash cartoon series.
- Padonki internet slang, Russian that is distorted, misspelled and vulgar, similar to leetspeak.
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#126Les horribles Cernettes (the band pictured in "the first photo on the internet") have a music video on youtube for their song "Collider" if you want to hear it:
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#127surprised no mention of Craigslist? or is it not an "Internet artifact" because it remains in essentially its original form...?
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#128Nice site. I miss the pre social media, pre-hypercommercial, pre mass surveillance Internet of old. It was mostly the product of genuine, sincere self-expression. Now it feels and even works like an infomercial, a scam, everywhere you look, filled to the brim with grifters and corporations trying to take ahold of your attention (and money). It's disgusting and inefficient at almost anything you attempt to do on it be…
Check out the simpler Internet through the gemini protocol [0]. It's lightweight on purpose, and the capsules (gemini "sites") are mostly text. There are aggregators [1] and even search [2]. 0: https://geminiprotocol.net/ 1: gemini://warmedal.se/~antenna/ 2: Gemini://kennedy.gemi.dev/
>Check out the simpler Internet through the gemini protocol [0].
Heh. I've been around the block in terms of compulsively trying to find alternatives to the ill-fated world wide web, my friend. I've hosted content on many of them, too, including gemini, which I really liked.
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#129would be cool for it to be less west/america-centric.
Here are some staples of the 2000s runet that I recall (haven't been there since then really) - bash.org.ru, IT and programmer humor site that produced some classic memes (I know of the American one, but this one was its own thing) - Masyanya, popular flash cartoon series. - Padonki internet slang, Russian that is distorted, misspelled and vulgar, similar to leetspeak.
i find this fascinating! there is so much to the internet i have never seen...
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
Works for me as a German, online since 96. Oh please yes create a version that applies to your cultural background and how you experienced the net!
> Oh please yes create a version that applies to your cultural background and how you experienced the net! As an American, I'd love to see this. Been online since AOL came on 3.5" floppies, but I know the US-centric version is only half the story. An example I was exploring recently was Tetetext which I have no memory of in the US. From what I understand, only a handful of bigger cities tried it and it simply was not…
All that stuff is fascinating to me.
I would also love to learn about the Chinese internet, which to this day is pretty closed to us.
There is a treasure trove of writings, jokes, stories, games, books, history in there we have no idea about...