#theweb

Xamanismo Coletivoeliasulrich@hachyderm.io
2026-01-31

"#TheWeb: Everything Is Shifting at Once

What makes this moment disorienting to some, but also exciting, is that multiple systems are changing simultaneously. It’s not just consumption models or discovery mechanisms or economics of the internet. It’s all of them, at the same time, and they’re interconnected.

The #consumption model used to be straightforward. A user goes to a surface, consumes content directly, and synthesizes the information themselves.

Now an AI intermediary does the #synthesis across dozens of surfaces and delivers the answer directly. The user can get what they need (achieve that conversion) without directly visiting the source anymore."

j.cv/the-web-is-changing-1-5/

Ecologia Digitaljosemurilo@mato.social
2026-01-30

"This shift is gradual, not binary. #Directvisits still happen. #Search still sends traffic. But the proportion is changing, and as AI intermediaries become more capable and more widely used, that proportion will continue to shift. #Publishers whose revenue depends on attention are feeling this now, and it will become more pronounced over time.
#Theweb will continue to change into the future; this isn’t a single switch being flipped, but a #migration."

j.cv/the-economics-of-synthesi

2026-01-28

"In the beginning, the Web was simple. When I first encountered it in early 1993 (working for O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator[...]), there was only one browser for viewing web pages and it ran exclusively on the Unix platform. There were about a dozen tags that made any difference. Designing a web page was a relatively simple task."

cybercultural.com/p/1993-globa

#internet #TheWeb #cyberculture #technology #essay

2026-01-27

"Before TikTok, Tumblr or LiveJournal, before widespread computer ownership or the web itself, trans people were connecting online, allowing them to talk to people like themselves.

For many, this was the first time. The earliest forums offered an invaluable space for people whose innate sense of being trans clashed with the prevailing culture. But there, in cyberspace, they built community and friendships."

assignedmedia.org/breaking-new

#internet #TheWeb #cyberculture #trans #TransRights #LGBTQI

2026-01-21

"I'm in the process of setting up a WWW server that will blow the socks off your Mosaic viewer!"

cybercultural.com/p/1993-mtv-i

#internet #TheWeb #history #technology #cyberculture

Terrry King_the_grid
2026-01-17

Will AI reach its true potential, or just be something for the “big five” to capitalize from?

the-grid.co.uk/technology/pote

George Macgregorg3om4c@code4lib.social
2026-01-09

An interesting essay here about #blogs and #blogging.

"It is because information is free that blogging can be an act of courage [...] One of the most incredible things about blogging is that it remains, in many ways, unchanged."

Information is still free [The History of the Web] thehistoryoftheweb.com/informa #TheWeb

WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Businesswired.com@web.brid.gy
2026-01-01

Here’s What It’s Like to Use Acuity Scheduling for Your Business or Side Hustle (2026)

fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wire

2025-12-30

"By 2003, with the blogosphere now established, music fans had begun to gravitate to blogs to pontificate about the music and artists they loved."

cybercultural.com/p/mp3-blogs-

#music #history #TheWeb #internet #cyberculture

2025-12-23

Why I 🧡 the web.

Wayback Machine Web Browser Extension

github.com/internetarchive/way

lets you "go back in time to see how a URL has changed and evolved through the history of the Web."

#webdev #oldschool #waybackmachien #theweb

George Macgregorg3om4c@code4lib.social
2025-12-09

A nice piece about the rise and fall of the #website comments section, published recently on The History of Web. As with so much of the #web today, the best expressions of it are now behind us...

What happened to the comment section? [The History of the Web] thehistoryoftheweb.com/what-ha #WWW #TheWeb #comments #internet #websites

2025-12-05

30 years (and one day) ago!

"JavaScript is an easy-to-use object scripting language designed for creating live online applications that link together objects and resources on both clients and servers."

web.archive.org/web/2007091614

#javascript #webdev #internet #TheWeb #programming

2025-12-05

Happy 25th anniversary to this Daily Mail article from the year 2000, proclaiming that internet "may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it".

#internet #TheWeb #OTD #OnThisDay #history

A photograph of a Daily Mail newspaper article from December 5, 2000, with the headline "Internet 'may be just a passing fad as millions give up on it'". The article includes a cropped photo showing hands typing on a keyboard in front of a computer displaying a website.
2025-12-04

"It’s notable that MySpace came from an LA-based company, eUniverse. While the Silicon Valley based Friendster tried to impose various technological constraints onto its users, MySpace adopted a more laidback, Venice Beach-like approach. You can do whatever you want with your profile and make friends with whomever you choose — that was the MySpace way."

cybercultural.com/p/myspace-20

#internet #TheWeb #SocialMedia #history #technology #cyberculture

2025-12-02

"In June 2002, Pew Research Center released a report on broadband uptake. It stated that 21% of all Internet users in America — 24 million adults — now had broadband in the home, up from just 6% two years ago."

cybercultural.com/p/internet-2

#internet #TheWeb #history #technology #cyberculture

2025-11-25

"By the end of 2002, blogging had blossomed into a thriving ecosystem of colourful personal sites that interconnected to each other via RSS, trackback and blogrolls."

cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-

#blogging #blogs #RSS #internet #TheWeb #cyberculture

2025-11-12

"On 12 November 1990 [Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau] published a formal proposal outlining principal concepts and defining important terms behind the web. The document described a "hypertext project" called "WorldWideWeb" in which a "web" of "hypertext documents" could be viewed by “browsers”."

home.cern/science/computing/wh

w3.org/Proposal.html

#WorldWideWeb #HypertextProject #TheWeb #internet #TechHistory #technology #OnThisDay #OTD

Initial Reviews and Insights of the Paid novaTopFlex Site

According to Yoast SEO, novaTopFlex.com is not yet equipped with the appropriate minimum of passive voice, nor suited with the appropriate word length, nor with alt text for the profile picture. Yoast SEO demands keeping the passive voice below 10%; however, novaTopFlex is currently at near 18% passive voice.

WIRED - The Latest in Technology, Science, Culture and Businesswired.com@web.brid.gy
2025-11-03

The Curious Case of the Bizarre, Disappearing Captcha

fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wire

2025-11-01

"Geocities [which launched in November 1994] has a fascinating history. A roaring beginning, a dramatic climax, the most tragic of endings, and just a sprinkle of hope right at the end."

thehistoryoftheweb.com/an-ode-

#geocities #internet #TheWeb #InternetHistory #history

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