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Feeling nostalgic: what are some articles, essays, blogposts etc that would go into a compilation called "the people's oral history of the internet"?
thinking out loud about the "segments" of my own history
- geocities/angelfire type sites full of video game and anime 'shrines', strategy guides, gameFAQs
- nerd-operated web sites about niche topics and interests
- a website/homepage of my own, with jokes, gifs, a guestbook
- geocities/angelfire type sites full of video game and anime 'shrines', strategy guides, gameFAQs
- nerd-operated web sites about niche topics and interests
- a website/homepage of my own, with jokes, gifs, a guestbook
- games: flash games, browser games, swirve's earth & utopia, stickdeath, netropolis, vagabonds quest, racewarkingdoms, neopets
- discovering forums, bulletin boards – things like bodybuilding dotcom, gamefaqs' SG social board, delphine software's darkstone forum
- discovering forums, bulletin boards – things like bodybuilding dotcom, gamefaqs' SG social board, delphine software's darkstone forum
- msn messenger, mIRC (large trout), ICQ (uh-oh!), kazaa, soulseek,
- having blogs to check in on friends' inner lives – blogger, xanga, diaryland, diary-x, livejournal
- having blogs to check in on friends' inner lives – blogger, xanga, diaryland, diary-x, livejournal
badger badger badger badger
HEYYEYAAEYAAAEYAEYAA
Numa Numa
Leeroy Jenkins
this is one of my favorite reads of all time, and it is about teenagers growing up on tumblr. very thoughtful and human https://newrepublic.com/article/129002/secret-lives-tumblr-teens
also really like this one https://twitter.com/sweetpotatoes/status/1026879490058858497
of course i have no choice but to link my Literal, Actual #1 Favorite Essay Of All Time https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/956460114508001281
12. just a nice eg of quality 2007-era blog content: Steve, Don't Eat it! http://www.thesneeze.com/steve-dont-eat-it/
(pics attached of a couple of other short posts)
(pics attached of a couple of other short posts)
14. Unregistered HyperCam 2 https://twitter.com/thefaceberg/status/1089697254196166656?s=21
15. Thread of important posts in Usenet history https://twitter.com/ehn/status/1089885770653958151?s=21
16. Early twitter https://twitter.com/pomeranian99/status/930844436816416769?s=21
18. Wordpress https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1092155868932534272?s=21
20. RIP Bruno Ganz, the actor who played Hitler in Downfall https://twitter.com/yooday/status/1097382534583734275
22. The Web We Have To Save - amazing 2015 piece about the old blogosphere by @h0d3r, who was arrested & jailed for 6 years in Iran for his popular blog, and experienced the change more starkly when he was freed. (h/t @anoemi for reminding me of this) https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426
23. I really enjoyed reading this very personal oral history of a young girl growing up on the Internet, on BBS forums and so on https://twitter.com/brooklynmarie/status/1073631659466010624?s=21
24. Lots to chew on here re: 90s Internet! https://twitter.com/valerie_schafer/status/1101830452338479109?s=21
25. "Blogging [...] shifted the power from those who controlled media distribution to those who had the time to write, then to those who wrote the most sensationalist headlines, then to those who aggregated the most sensationalist headlines." by @robmay https://medium.com/@robmay/why-most-people-dont-write-and-how-it-ruined-the-internet-1482e1f4977c
26. Fuck You and Die: An Oral History of Something Awful
"He said he was going to kill himself if he wasn't made a moderator."
"Oh, jeez, I'm managing a small city here and they're all whiny babies."
(h/t @revlismas)
https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/nzg4yw/fuck-you-and-die-an-oral-history-of-something-awful
"He said he was going to kill himself if he wasn't made a moderator."
"Oh, jeez, I'm managing a small city here and they're all whiny babies."
(h/t @revlismas)
https://motherboard.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/nzg4yw/fuck-you-and-die-an-oral-history-of-something-awful
27. reddit-style responses in the replies https://twitter.com/tobidire/status/1109122805558321152
28. The Rise And Fall Of The Obscure Music Download Blog: A Roundtable – "I think bloggers are doing more good than they are harm, so long as the material they are unearthing is out of print." (h/t @harney_barrow) https://www.theawl.com/2012/11/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-obscure-music-download-blog-a-roundtable/
30. Webcomics
"We were all stupid and young, just learning to be people."
"We were a bunch of nerds feeling power for the first time."
Featuring Randall (XKCD), Jeph (QC), Zach (SMBC) and others
(h/t @prateekxarora) https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/5/18295369/webcomics-xkcd-questionable-content-dinosaur-comics-90s-internet-social-media
"We were all stupid and young, just learning to be people."
"We were a bunch of nerds feeling power for the first time."
Featuring Randall (XKCD), Jeph (QC), Zach (SMBC) and others
(h/t @prateekxarora) https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/5/18295369/webcomics-xkcd-questionable-content-dinosaur-comics-90s-internet-social-media
31. /r/place [2017] https://twitter.com/kevinsimler/status/1114620710335332352?s=21
32. In 2011, @charleswarnke wrote "Don't Date A Girl Who Reads", (subsequently retitled to "You Should Date An Illterate Girl") which spawned hundreds of variations and spinoffs https://thoughtcatalog.com/charles-warnke/2011/01/dont-date-a-girl-who-reads/
33. "This was before [...] we all started merging our online and offline lives. The internet hadn’t gone corporate; websites were ephemeral things. Your friendships on a site existed only within the space of that site; if you lost one, you lost the other." https://medium.com/@maralie/we-have-always-lived-in-the-palace-147df70f7660
34. Steak-umm bless https://twitter.com/steak_umm/status/1069689685671329793
35. "The number of Second Life users peaked just as FB started to explode. [...] It seemed that people wanted [...] to become their most flattering profile picture more than they wanted to become a wholly separate avatar." https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/second-life-leslie-jamison/544149/
36. "Lisbon had to invent almost every detail in the Instagrammer's book [...] most of the plot points were completely fabricated: breakups, arguments, entire family members." https://www.marieclaire.com/culture/a27462/ghostwriting-internet-influencers/
37. "By end 2017, just when Peretti was executing a complete 180 on how he talked about social platforms, it was clear that the company had missed its lofty revenue goals; The NYT claims that it generated $260m that year, far below its projected $350m." https://whatsnewinpublishing.com/2018/11/buzzfeed-jonah-perettis-increasing-pessimism-and-why-it-matters/
38. "This is why Instagram stunt food works: It transforms an indulgent meal or snack from a physical activity to a status performance. In the most successful of IG food operations, the posting of a particular item signals both affluence and leisure." https://www.eater.com/2017/7/6/15925940/instagram-influencers-cronuts-milkshakes-burgers
39. "Korean live-streamers often schedule their mukbang videos to align with dinnertime hours, so their viewers eating alone at home feel like they’re sharing a meal with a friend." https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/11/style/youtube-mukbang-bloveslife-bethany-gaskin.html
40. "Erika (EL James) never looked back. She's actually blocked every single person I still know from fandom on her twitter account. She used the community to get her book (most ideas created by the community itself) to #1 then shut the door on them all." https://amp.reddit.com/r/TwoXChromosomes/comments/2byz2l/many_women_do_not_agree_with_me_on_this_subject/cjaqvmi?context=5
41. very thoughtful essay from @Scaachi about a multi-year story of a writer who stalked her goodreads critic. Handled with a lot of nuance and sensitivity, and simultaneously is quite revealing about what the Internet can be like for people, to people https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/scaachikoul/kathleen-hale-goodreads-catfish-crazy-stalker
42. "The original wave of cyberbabes – a signifier of the wildly futuristic technological predictions and advancements of the time – were described as having features borrowed from the hottest celebs, like sexy Frankenstein’s monsters." https://www.vice.com/en_asia/article/bjbx3z/the-curious-history-of-the-y2k-cyberbabes
43. Legendary @Bodybuildingcom thread: how many days are there in a week? https://twitter.com/davidu/status/1156664376440438784?s=21
46. "With all its decades of episodes, well-known characters, and worldwide brand recognition, @SesameStreet has more than 5 billion views on YouTube. That’s impressive, but @TheChuChuTV has more than 19 billion." https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/raised-by-youtube/570838/
47. "Judging by the numbers alone, Twitter is more deeply intertwined with music than any other industry. Four of the top five—and half of the top 20—most-followed Twitter accounts are solo musicians." https://pitchfork.com/features/article/2010s-how-twitter-changed-music-kanye-drake-nicki-minaj-ariana-grande-vampire-weekend/
48. Marc Andreessen browsing the global network of computer networks by tapping out a lexicon of arcane commands https://twitter.com/kyletibbitts/status/1199100750745362432?s=21
49. Instagram face https://twitter.com/newyorker/status/1205169853528756224?s=21 https://twitter.com/NewYorker/status/1205169853528756224
50. David predicts the PITA in your pocket https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1208171461678190593
51. The Mother of Internet, by John Hathway [2017] https://twitter.com/JohnHathway/status/1236397745692241920
52. "Because until three years ago, of course Flickr was the best photo sharing service in the world. Nothing else could touch it. If you cared about digital photography, or wanted to share photos with friends, you were on Flickr." [2012] https://gizmodo.com/how-yahoo-killed-flickr-and-lost-the-internet-5910223
53. the replies to this are an important bit of internet oral history https://twitter.com/adambyrne_/status/1304016317784248321
