The internet used to be* fun

The Internet has no benches

The case for internet neighborhoods we can hang out in.

Kast

Tossing something your way from the Atmosphere, a new internet built for people.

The Sites We Lost

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

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.

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…

The Internet has no benches

on building free public infrastructure for enjoyment

Fatesky

Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.

Fatesky

Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.

nekoweb

cuz internet is for the cats

Northsky

Social media as it should be. Find your community among millions of users, unleash your creativity, and have some fun again.

When the Internet Was a Place - Front Porch Republic

Not too long ago, the internet was a place you visited. The family desktop sat in its designated closet or back office. In schools, there were rooms filled with computers blinking in tandem, waiting for your class to arrive and hop online. You had to purposefully arrive at the internet, and when done, you left […]

Index Network: Discovery Protocol

Finding people living in New York who listen to avant-garde jazz and curious about the semantic web, or discovering the latest events attended by peo...

Was their any substantial backlash to the internet when it first started becoming popular? I can imagine that going from a comparatively disconnected world to one where instantaneous global connection 24/7 were commonplace was a rather massive (and not always positive) shift in many ways.

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Nyan.Cat!

The Official Homepage of Nyan Cat!

The Boring Internet

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