Anytime that you click on your browser reader mode you are implicitly admitting, and confirming, that #smolweb and #Gemini are the right way to read internet pages... 🤭
[O]ur online spaces are no longer open ecosystems. Instead “they’re plantations; highly concentrated and controlled environments, closer kin to the industrial farms that madden the creatures trapped within”.
"As we Irish discovered in the great famine of 1845-49, monocultures are generally not a good idea and we abandon biodiversity at our peril. […] the internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture."
I remember when people who ran web sites would ask me "How can I keep people on my site?" and I'd say "You can't. The very nature of the web is an ever expanding universe meant to be explored. People will leave your site, but if you want them to return you need to provide reasons for them to return, not just try to lock them in."
Aujourd'hui on fête les 31 ans de l'arrivée du World Wide Web dans le domaine public.
Le 30 avril 1993, le CERN renonce à la propriété intellectuelle sur cette invention pour permettre à tout le monde de créer et visiter des sites web gratuitement. #web#www
Moving from the Cold War Pentagon to Silicon Valley to Wall Street and into the homes of millions of Americans, Cassidy tells the story of the great boom and bust in an authoritative and entertaining narrative. Featuring all the iconic figures of the Internet era -- Marc Andreessen, Jeff Bezos, Steve Case, Alan Greenspan, and many others, Dot.con is a panoramic and stirring account of human greed and gullibility.
"We Need To Rewild The Internet" https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/ "Information and decision-making power now flowed straight to the top. Decades later when the first crop was felled, vast fortunes were made, tree by standardized tree. The clear-felled forests were replanted, ready to extend the boom. Readers of the American political anthropologist of anarchy and order, James C. Scott, know what happened next."
"After seeing the balance of power shift to large corporations and big tech companies, the founder of the World Wide Web is determined to give users control over their data again." -- #TimDanton
wenn ich auf einer seite die kein #HTTPS hat, keine daten eingebe und mich nicht anmelde etc. also nur rumscrolle und klicke gibt es keine erhöteres sicherheit-/Privatsphärerisiko oder?
sollte es nicht zu empfhelen sein, gibt es eine methode es trotzdem sicher/anonym zu machen?
weil es gibt immer wieder #webseiten mit lediglich #http die ich sehr gerne anschauen würde..
Going back to the actual point that matters most, to me at least.
What's the total carbon footprint of the advertising and social media-based web? (Not just the highly optimised servers)
I keep thinking how much more logical #usenet would be if someone actually had created local hierarchies like they exist for a few places. there's a france. hierarchy which has groups for all kinds of places in the country.
instead some places, esp. in Germany have hierarchies for themselves (like nbg. or bln.) while Austria has at. and oesterreich., UK has both uk. and england. etc.
but barely anyone is using these by now anyway, so it's a moot point.
@Longplay_Games they most likely did, I am fascinated with the idea of this network that was not actually part of the #www but still managed to transmit data all over the planet.
but a lot of this stuff is just gone.
Je suis tombé là-dessus ! 😯
Nostalgie d'entendre le son du modem se lançant pour se connecter à Internet au tournant de l'an 2000 !
On en a fait du chemin depuis ! 😍
Vous avez connu ? 🧐 #Wanadoo#Caramail#Altavista#Voilà#WWW
Guess what's in the #CERN VIP visitor center.. The monitor, keyboard, and mouse of the NXT station Tim Berners-Lee created the #WWW on (the computer is in London, it seems) -- and a #Grafana dashboard.
The monitor has a large dimple on top from all the people touching it.
Oh the irony, it's actually really hard to read the original proposal for the #WWW by Tim Berners-Lee because it was written with Microsoft Word for Mac.
Kids, stay away from proprietary file formats if you want to access your work in its original form in a couple years.
We are running out of mugs, so come quick if you want one! We also have screen printed cotton t-shirts and enamel pins. Building H, level one! #FOSDEM#Merchtodon
Remember web directories? Back in the mists of Internet time, it was clever to know that they existed and know which ones were relevant to the subjects you were interested in. That was when the web was still small enough to imagine we could catalog and curate content.
Indeed: web directories! Given the collapse of effective search through Google &co, we will have to return to those directories. Human-controlled, intelligent lists of access points to real, validated information.
Anyone have thoughts on the #DuckDuckGo browser? Been using it 2 weeks, IMHO it's not bad but missing some basic features and not quite ready for prime time. Also it just crashed on me and won't reopen my previous session when I re-started. Back to @Vivaldi, eh? #Internet#Browser#Tech#Web#WWW
I’m on record somewhere on Usenet saying that the WWW will never catch on. After using the Lynx Browser text-based WWW browser. When I was using CIX and its Usenet gateway.
Proper graphical browsing changed everything. Even if the original tranche of websites were overly garish. Including the first one I created for in-house use in the IT team where I worked. #WWW