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.
Hike, Bike, Drive Offline – Navigate with Privacy
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we were online
Turn the internet into a living, shared space with real-time traces of people browsing.
Trails and public spaces — Rafael M. Batista
A reply to Kenny Peng and colleagues on designing social media around trails — and why the campground or the piazza may be the better analogy.
Opinion | The Problem With Google’s A.I. Overview
What used to be a meandering journey is now an immediate arrival at your destination.
The Zero Click Internet
The internet is undergoing the biggest change since its inception. It's huge. And there is no going back. The web is changing into the Zero Click Internet,...
From Feeds to Trails
To design the future of social media, rethink the interface before the algorithm.
Toward Wayfinding Infrastructure for the Living Web · Atlas Research Group
Our world is getting crazier by the day. Our old maps and compasses weren’t made for this complexity. While new tools may open up amazing possibilities, they also make it easier to lose ourselves – especially when they don’t belong to us, and make us vulnerable to other people’s hidden choices and unsavory intentions about what is worth attending to.
Click Browser on Twitter / X
How do you keep up with the web?I'm a news hound, and I find social feeds too noisy. So I'm experimenting with something new in Click—a completely private feed reader, that lets you follow blogs, newsletters / substacks, YouTube channels, Bluesky creators, subreddits, and more.… pic.twitter.com/jjNO2x6614— Click Browser (@clickbrowser) February 4, 2026
Desire Paths for Wikipedia
An extension that remembers the path of a cursor over the linked pages of Wikipedia, “wearing” them into the page.
#764: It's been a year
Plus: phone poems, low-friction friends and the decline of online travel recs
Part II is live now. What comes after social media?
People, Not Posts: Part II - What Comes After Social Media?
rhosf.leaflet.pubThe web was always social Diving into the idea of bridging different social networks and protocols like ATproto and ActivityPub to enhance the web. Looking back at my personal web journey, from Web 2.0 to now, emphasizing that building connections... herve.bzh/the-web-was-always-social/
The web was always social
herve.bzh"This is what a truly networked movement does. It's more than interoperability between platforms, it's infrastructure for trust, visibility and connection" By a @gainforest.earth user discovering @atproto.com's magic for the first time! 🦋🌱 Their full post: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7…
Sometimes the most exciting discoveries happen by accident. While reading this thoughtful field report from GainForest https://lnkd.in/eihbfggg, I was reminded why I've been so impressed by the wa...
www.linkedin.com"This is what a truly networked movement does. It's more than interoperability between platforms, it's infrastructure for trust, visibility and connection" By a @gainforest.earth user discovering @atproto.com's magic for the first time! 🦋🌱 Their full post: linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7…
Sometimes the most exciting discoveries happen by accident. While reading this thoughtful field report from GainForest https://lnkd.in/eihbfggg, I was reminded why I've been so impressed by the wa...
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