pzwang/lostweb

The Web We Lost, and What Comes Next

How the Web Was Lost – 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

The Sites We Lost

A memorial to the weird little corners of the internet that lived on The Useless Web.

The Disappearing World Wide Web

Fare thee well, oh honey...

Meditations on The Human Web

To save the internet, we may have to rebuild it.

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 — Make sense of the web, together

A place for mapping the web, connecting ideas, and building shared knowledge.

The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet

A book about how to survive on the internet. It’s 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.

The Missing Building Blocks of the Web

At a time when millions are losing trust in the the web’s biggest sites, it’s worth revisiting the idea that the web was supposed to be…

It's time to rebuild the web

The web was never supposed to be a few walled gardens of concentrated content owned by a few major publishers; it was supposed to be a cacophony of different sites and voices.

Tim Berners Lee: Thoughts On The Internet Evolution

"I’ve always believed the web is for everyone. That's why I and others fight fiercely to protect it."

rip.so :: the digital graveyard

A memorial to the messengers, social networks, browsers and websites the internet forgot.

The Better Web / The Human Web / The Living Web

A response to Aaron Parecki's response: on the false dichotomy of rewriting with Claude or shutting down, why 'understanding matters more than tools' sever…