







Celebrating those who make the internet a little more fun
softer computing club
a cozy community of humans and computers on the planet earth
Part I: The Next Great Online Community
There’s a lack of innovation in community software. Let's dive into internet history, and get inspired!

START A COMPUTER CLUB
a computer club is where a group of people hang out and do computer together
The Fathers of the Internet Revolution Urge Today’s Software Engineers to Reinvent the Web
Tim Berners-Lee, Vint Cerf, and other Internet pioneers issue a challenge on a day that just might go down in tech history

The rise of Whatever
This was originally titled “I miss when computers were fun”. But in the course of writing it, I discovered that there is a reason computers became less fun, a dark thread woven through a number of events in recent history. Let me back up a bit.

Maker Party 2016: Stand Up for a Better Internet | The Mozilla Blog
Mozilla’s annual celebration of making online is challenging outdated copyright law in the EU. Here’s how you can participate. It’s that time of year

De-google-ify Internet - Main Page
The web giants centralize our digital lives in exchange for their services The Free Software community offers alternative ethical services The Framasoft network intends to prove itby hosting them

From Volunteer Gardening to Building Next-Gen Distributed Web Apps: My Journey to Holochain App…
A story about discovering community, a mind-warping internet paradigm and a global network of unconventional software engineers.


Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
In 2007, a small team at Yahoo! briefly changed how we program the internet. This is their story.

AI Coding & Cloud | Meetup
This group started January 2016.We are about extraordinary advances in software creation, maintenance, and hosting.We are a gathering of good natured people for encouragement and support of what you do.This is your group! How you can help:1. Help to publicize events at work, with friends, and especi

LURK
Welcome to LURK, we host, facilitate and archive discussions around net- and computational culture and politics, proto- and post-free culture practices, (experimental) (sound) (new media) (software) art, and things like that…

Your Online Clubhouse
I’ve gotten in the habit of explaining Discourse to people as a clubhouse. A place on the Internet that belongs exclusively to you and your friends – whether you have 10 friends or a few hundred thousand.

🦫 alert! We published the first episode of "Teach the Web new Tricks", featuring @servo.org and @iroh.computer to create distributed Web apps! Learn more how we expand the Web from tabs to windows to devices at webbeef.org/tricks.html