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.

we were online

Turn the internet into a living, shared space with real-time traces of people browsing.

A space to converse and connect.

An X/Twitter Spaces alternative for Bluesky and the open web. Creating good vibes in the friendly skies.

Beneath The Enshittification, Something Amazing Is Growing

Last month Terry Godier published a great essay on his website about “the boring internet,” discussing how the internet that many of us grew up with, the wonderful, empowering, exciting…

Semble — Make sense of the web, together

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

Federating friendly spaces - Roomy

hearkening back to the cozy vibes of old-web neighborhoods

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.

The Boring Internet

The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.

The Boring Internet

The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.

Rethink: Web - Open Space

When we struggle to explain the inherent qualities of a medium, we tend to defer to analogies and metaphors. This is especially true of the internet. Clouds, highways, streams, and real estate are just a few examples of the concepts employed to represent this intangible invention. Staring into a screen, it’s easy to imagine an […]

Wholesome internet 🌱

I’m watering a “cursed websites” folder in my digital garden shed, but also a “wholesome websites” counterpart, like any reasonably sane person on the internet should do in this day and age. And that's that.

The Extended Internet Universe

The Internet is now a very complicated place

The Extended Internet Universe

The Internet is now a very complicated place

Part II: USENET — Let's Return to Public Spaces

Usenet was what the Web is missing nowadays: a genuinely public space, with unclear ownership