Alive internet theory
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Alive internet theory
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#2The constant re-styling of the page was annoying enough to make me close the tab and not come back.
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#3The constant re-styling of the page was annoying enough to make me close the tab and not come back.
I did the same and did not even think about it until i read this!
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#4I'm open to and interested in the thesis and discourse this website supposedly offers, but the medium forcefully expels me.
Perhaps there could be a static 1.0 version we can read or listen to?
edit: Okay, I get it now. It's an automatic aggregator! Only the style auto-change is egregious then, but the actual webapp is great!
another edit, sorry: The call-to-action button should be at the top, not the bottom. On mobile you have to scroll to see it and it can be missed.
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#5> alive internet theory is a séance with this living internet. Resurrecting tens of millions of digital artifacts from the Internet Archive, visitors are immersed in a relentless barrage of human expression as they travel through the life of the web as we created it—every image, video, song, and text uploaded by a real person on the web.
I like this a lot. It sort of turns internet history into a lava lamp.
For those struggling with the styling on the splash page, the slider at the top lets you pick an era and stick with it.
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#6The constant re-styling of the page was annoying enough to make me close the tab and not come back.
I managed to brave the cruel and punishing color changes long enough to click the button and was rewarded with an interesting session of nostalgia and exploration.
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#7The constant re-styling of the page was annoying enough to make me close the tab and not come back.
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#8The constant re-styling of the page was annoying enough to make me close the tab and not come back.
I thought it was cool, the UIs of the past evoke lost memories of past eras. But sadly, the images glitched out and stopped displaying after I manually changed the date. Probably due to my internet connection haha
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#9The constant re-styling of the page was annoying enough to make me close the tab and not come back.
I managed to brave the cruel and punishing color changes long enough to click the button and was rewarded with an interesting session of nostalgia and exploration.
i didn't even realise there was a button link to click. I thought the landing page was it. Let me go back..
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
I managed to brave the cruel and punishing color changes long enough to click the button and was rewarded with an interesting session of nostalgia and exploration.
i didn't even realise there was a button link to click. I thought the landing page was it. Let me go back..
Ahh yeah, the button is below the fold on mobile! Bad design, there.