I look back on the 3 musketeers of web design in the 1990s: Jeffrey Zeldman, David Siegel, and Jakob Nielsen. Each had a distinct web design philosophy (and if you read till the end, you'll discover which one I believe 'won' in the long term). I focus in particular on 1997, which is when Flash and CSS emerged. But I also look back on the careers of the 3 gurus from our 2025 perspective. https://cybercultural.com/p/web-design-1997/ #InternetHistory #WebDesign
#internethistory
Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1021871/4bec46993258f6b7/
#HackerNews #CoryDoctorow #LostTheInternet #InternetHistory #DigitalRights #TechnologyDiscussion
A neat bit of Internet history:
512K Day: The Day The Internet (almost) Broke
From Hosts.txt to Modern Internet Infrastructure
https://axonshield.com/from-hoststxt-to-modern-internet-infrastructure
#HackerNews #HostsTxt #ModernInfrastructure #InternetHistory #TechEvolution #Cybersecurity
RT by @SwiftOnSecurity: Most viewed videos on YouTube in 2007
🐦🔗: https://nitter.oksocial.net/WebDesignMuseum/status/1925167996152033696#m
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During 1997, video streaming came to web browsers through plug-ins like RealVideo, VDOLive and Microsoft's NetShow. David Bowie even attempted to 'cybercast' one of his concerts that year. #InternetHistory #VideoStreaming #U2
https://cybercultural.com/p/video-streaming-1997/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Back in 1997, the browser plugin RealPlayer became synonymous with "buffering" — constant, annoying delays in streaming a video online. But the buffering epidemic didn't dampen the HYPE for online video that year. And you thought AI hype was bad... cybercultural.com/p/video-stre... #InternetHistory
The Age of Buffering: Video St...
Back in 1997, the browser plugin RealPlayer became synonymous with "buffering" — which for 90s web users meant constant, annoying delays in streaming a video online (usually over dial-up). Funnily enough though, the buffering epidemic didn't dampen the HYPE for online video streaming that year. Wired magazine even declared that RealVideo was leading a “war with TV.” And you thought AI hype was bad... https://cybercultural.com/p/video-streaming-1997/ #InternetHistory #VideoStreaming
The ISP that David Bowie ran for eight years https://hackaday.com/2025/05/19/remembering-the-isp-that-david-bowie-ran-for-eight-years
#internet #history #Bowie #DavidBowie #90s #1990s #90sWeb #WebHistory #InternetHistory
Boing Boing: Wondering how to waste time online like a champion? Try the Bored Button. “The Bored Button is a fun way to explore the internet randomly. The bored button will take you to an entertaining website, many of which remind me of the earlier days of the web in their simplicity. I’ve spent way too long clicking away at the bored button, getting distracted by the novelty sites it takes […]
Radio New Zealand: Internet hui: Māori forge path into digital future. “Fears of Māori being left out of the future development of the internet were front and centre at the inaugural national Māori Internet hui, Kauwaka te Ipurangi. The two-day event at Te Papa in Wellington, hosted by Te Komiti Whakauru Māori, a subcommittee of InternetNZ-Ipurangi Aotearoa, invited Māori to explore how […]
In July 1997, N2K and Liquid Audio announced a way to sell digital songs online for 99 cents a pop. Soon after, Duran Duran became the first major label artist to release an online single for sale. #InternetHistory #DuranDuran #90s
https://cybercultural.com/p/digital-music-sales-1997/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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This week's #InternetHistory post on Cybercultural was an excuse to revisit my favourite boyhood band, Duran Duran. Back in 1997, they became the first major label artist to offer an online single for sale. All thanks to two now forgotten cos: N2K and Liquid Audio. cybercultural.com/p/digital-mu...
Duran Duran and the Dawn of Di...
This week's #InternetHistory post on Cybercultural was an excuse to revisit my favourite boyhood band, Duran Duran. Back in 1997, they became the first major label artist to offer an online single for sale. This was a couple of years before Napster and more than 5 years before the iTunes Store! It was all thanks to a couple of now mostly forgotten companies: N2K and Liquid Audio. Full story: https://cybercultural.com/p/digital-music-sales-1997/ #DuranDuran #90s
So Reddit started by creating fake accounts to appear active, and ended up building one of the most authentic communities online? That's like pretending to have 9 lives and actually getting them! 😸
20 years of proving that humans are the best content aggregators. #Reddit20 #InternetHistory
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/05/12/2112256/reddit-turns-20
Today I stumbled across a date-stamped set of instructions for "Scepter of Goth" (Scepter), the world's first commercial MMORPG, from September of 1982. We eventually franchised Scepter, and some of our franchisees went on to build the MMORPG industry (while I went on in 1991 to write Internet Gopher, the first Internet browser).
You can play Scepter at
ssh -p 2233 muinet@muinet.com password muinet
Create a free account and look under "BBS Games"
#history #internethistory #mmorpg #mmorpghistory
In 1996, the internet became an integral part of society. Web portals were all the rage, e-commerce matured, web designers got new tools (like CSS and Flash), and web applications began to appear. #InternetHistory
https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1996/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Wrapping up the 1996 series on Cybercultural, in this post I look at web portals, the continued rise of e-commerce, CSS and Flash arriving on the scene for web designers, and the emergence of web applications from Netscape. Starting next week, I'll be diving into 1997 internet history. https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1996/ #InternetHistory
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