"The Web 2024"
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From a 100 days of haiku project in 2024.
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#theweb
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] https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/what-happened-to-the-comment-section/ #WWW #TheWeb #comments #internet #websites
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."
https://web.archive.org/web/20070916144913/http://wp.netscape.com/newsref/pr/newsrelease67.html
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".
"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."
https://cybercultural.com/p/myspace-2003/
#internet #TheWeb #SocialMedia #history #technology #cyberculture
"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."
"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."
"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”."
https://home.cern/science/computing/where-web-was-born
https://www.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.
The Curious Case of the Bizarre, Disappearing Captcha
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/bizarre-disappearing-captcha/
"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."
"Nettime has been widely recognized for its seminal role stimulating and disseminating ideas about Netzkritik or Net Critique, net.art, and tactical media and pioneered practices such as "collaborative filtering"."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nettime
The internet mailing list Nettime was created in 1995, 30 years ago.
https://nettime.org/Lists-Archives/nettime-l-9510/msg00000.html
#internet #TheWeb #history #InternetHistory #OTD #OnThisDay #MailingList #NetArt #nettime
"The terrorist attacks of September 11 quickly turned blogging into a real-time forum for political analysis, conspiracy theories, emotion and outrage. The so-called “warblogs” emerged."
OpenAI Atlas Browser Hands On: I’m Not Convinced the Web Needs a Chatbot Tour Guide
The Wayback Machine was launched 24 years ago!
"The Wayback Machine has a pulse, rhythmic and steady as it loops endlessly through the spaces of the web."
https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/archiving-the-web/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wayback_Machine
#OnThisDay #OTD #history #internet #TheWeb #InternetArchive #WaybackMachine
“ai” is the worst thing to happen to society.
"ai" is the worst thing to happen to society. Removing more and more people from working, whilst making cancerous billionaires richer, is only ever going to result in greater and greater inequality. Everything else is parlour tricks. There is pretty much nothing good to come from any of this crap being peddled as "The greatest thing to enhance human capability". The whole "human in a loop" thing - this is essentially taking people out of creative and critical thinking and reducing them […]https://davidpeach.me/2025/10/22/ai-is-the-worst-thing-to-happen-to-society/
I'm pretty sure I've just found my 4th way to "put something useful in the #Django request context" and I'm sure there are more yet to be found.
The question is always "what's the way that makes the most sense", and that's what I'm still figuring out. #python #programming #theweb #blogging
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We need 5000% more "Just look at the website" links and about 500% less (as Trump would say) links to sites or apps that require accounts to see content.
#www #theweb #http #html
https://wandering.shop/@aesthr/115407796669102737
I Used Squarespace’s Blueprint AI to Design a Website
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/squarespace-blueprint-ai-website-builder/
Browser Fingerprinting: What Your Browser Is Telling Everyone About You
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.wired.com/story/what-is-browser-fingerprinting/
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