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Re: Internet Artifacts

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Post by Workaccount2 »

silisili wrote: post #2

I'm not sure how younger folks would feel seeing this...perhaps that it's ugly, less useful, sparse. And they'd be a bit right. But for me this was a hit of pure nostalgia, flipping item to item. Almost like looking through an old photo album of memories you'd forgotten years back. Thanks Neal for putting it together. Slightly fun fact - the original Space Jam site stayed intact until 2021! https://web.archive.org/we…

I never particularly liked 50's or 60's aesthetic, and always puzzled over how my parents could gush so hard over it.

Now, I totally get it.

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Post by a57721 »

Thorrez wrote: post #35
slyall wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They managed to break https://www.spacejam.com/ though. It redirects to https://www.spacejamanewlegacy.net/ which has a bad cert and then goes into a redirect loop. So broken after just 4 years

Hmm, I didn't get a redirect https://www.spacejamanewlegacy.net/

http://www.spacejamanewlegacy.net/ responds with "HTTP 301, Location: https://www.spacejam.com/"

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Post by alexpotato »

This was amazing and reminded me of the first time I heard an mp3.

I was a freshman in college (Fall 1997) and the only music we had access to was either CDs or the radio.

Technically, you could download a .wav of a song but it was super slow (even on fast university networks) and they were huge so you couldn't save that many on the hard drives of the time.

One day, I hear multiple songs coming from my room. Songs that neither I nor my roommate had on CDs. And it clearly wasn't the radio as the songs kept switching quickly with no commercials.

I distinctly remember thinking "Wait, how is he doing that? He doesn't have those songs!"

Makes me wonder what technology is going to have that impact on my kids.

Re: Internet Artifacts

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Post by rob »

jetrink wrote: post #62

I jumped over to the Wikipedia page of early blogger Justin Hall to see what he's up to. He has another distinction that he can probably claim: The longest recorded gap between registering a domain and finally using it to start a business. "In September 2017, Hall began work as co-founder & Chief Technology Officer for bud.com, a California benefit corporation delivering recreational cannabis, built on a domain name…

I think domains were even free in 1994. I think the owner of rob.com told me he just had to send in a form or something back then.

Re: Internet Artifacts

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Post by epiccoleman »

Funes- wrote: post #34

Nice 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…

> It used to serve as a refuge from all the ailments sprung out of the hypercapitalistic endeavours and otherwise fakeness of the modern world

This line really stuck out to me. I really miss that feeling of the old net too. It occurs to me that a lot of my usage of the modern net is chasing that old feeling - which is sadly largely absent.

Still, there's good left - the sincere self-expression is still out there - you just have to search in the cracks and niches.

The sad thing is that the modern internet has made the need for the "old school internet" worse. We need that refuge from the grift and the bullshit now more than we've ever needed it.

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Post by FuriouslyAdrift »

dev-slash-zero wrote: post #15

I also would consider Digg to be the direct predecessor of Reddit. If I recall correctly it was more popular until possibly as late as 2010.

"...the top 100 Digg users are responsible for more than half of the content that reaches the Digg front page. Furthermore, there could be as few as 20 'superusers' who are responsible for submitting 25 per cent of Digg's front-page stories. If you do the maths, you'll realise that anyone could set up a company with that many employees and have a far more interesting and diverse front page... "

https://www.cnet.com/tech/computing/digg-is-dead-twitter-kil...

Re: Internet Artifacts

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Post by NoSalt »

dev-slash-zero wrote: post #15

I also would consider Digg to be the direct predecessor of Reddit. If I recall correctly it was more popular until possibly as late as 2010.

My social media path is this:

SpyMac → Slashdot → Digg → Reddit

Not sure where I picked up on Hacker News ... probably from a Reddit link.

Re: Internet Artifacts

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Post by archon1410 »

The "first MP3", without the background music, and just the voice, sounds a lot better to me than the original I listened to on YouTube. I liked the MP3 more.

Any way for me to find similar stuff? Just a good voice singing stuff, without music? I know acapella, and some of it is good, but I'm thinking of something more specific. Just one person singing without music I guess, something poetic.

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