The Sites We Lost
A memorial to the weird little corners of the internet that lived on The Useless Web.
How the Web Was Lost โ James Gleick
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Webby Tim Berners-Lee with Stephen WittFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 389 pp., $30
My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet
Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing. But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and they have lessons for the future.
Semble โ Make sense of the web, together
A place for mapping the web, connecting ideas, and building shared knowledge.
rip.so :: the digital graveyard
A memorial to the messengers, social networks, browsers and websites the internet forgot.
The story of this blog so far: 'AI', the death of web dev, and feeling like an outsider
Writing at the end of the world, from Hveragerรฐi, Iceland
The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet
A book about how to survive on the internet. Itโs about the cozy web, the dark web, the dark forest, the clear net, the dark net, and a new social world emerging around us. This is the Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet.
Disaster, doubt, and the origins of hypertext
Hypertext and the World Wide Web are built on a complex network of ideas that originate in the military and ecological disasters of the short 20 th Century, 1914--1989, and in a world-spanning intellectual effort to prevent their recurrence. Though that effort now appears to have failed, and though the tragic story of the 20 th Century has not, it seems, concluded, we may learn profit by examining the concepts and ideals on which hypertext was built.
The Evolution of Creativity
Writing about the big beautiful mess that is making things for the world wide web.
Rewilding the Web: my workshop report from Edinburgh
Notes from a wonderfully interdisciplinary Edinburgh workshop on 'Rewilding the Web', ranging coopetition and biological variety through the philosophy of self-organisation, polycrisis governance, protopian science fiction, and moderation seen through the lens of artisanal cheese.
Collection
Updated 28d
A melancholy reflection about what happened to the web mixed with some positive imagination about to do about it.
Weird Wide Web ๐
Interesting, strange, and beautiful websites that somehow amazed me. I love them.
The Internet, and how we've developed with it
Not "doomscrolling has killed our lives". But how, looking back, our enjoyment of the internet has shaped our experience of life.
We can have a different web
My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet
VC&G | ยป My memories of what life was like before the Internet
Habbo Hotel Memories - Sneer Campaign
blogs.loc.gov
My old SoundCloud page is a time capsule
background textures and patterns
Bluesky Map
taken.
Holocloth
Grata
Static โ a static page about static