Update: https://social.veltens.org/@angelo/110643298577042397 Now all #twitter t.co links are blocked by twitter login. All #links we ever shared via twitter can not be followed anymore without signing in to twitter, no matter where in the #WWW they point to. Twitter put a gate in front of our links by "shortening" them and now they locked the gate. We never should have given them such power. #gatedcommunities#fediverse#web
"30 years ago this week…something called the World Wide Web launched into the public domain…#CERN owned Berners-Lee's invention and…had the option to license [it] out…for profit. But Berners-Lee believed that keeping the web as open as possible would help it grow…[He] eventually convinced CERN to release the World Wide Web into the #PublicDomain without any #patents or fees."
When I was involved in starting a volunteer-run community newspaper in the late 1990s we built and maintained our own website, which contained full copies of all our issues. How did the web get so mystified and inaccessible that community groups - and even businesses - now rely on FarceBook and other corporate providers to host their web presence?
30 years ago, in April 1993, the World Wide Web commenced.
Glad to have been there in those earliest days of the public internet. I was a young Amiga game developer, fighting for development freedom on Usenet, as Commodore was pushing developers to not take over the system. 🙂
I picked #Fosstodon as my #Mastodon instance because it appeared to be very #FOSS-friendly but dependence on #CloudFlare is a clear no-go. It's also quite old which speaks for stability (also very important).
Unfortunately, in many places of the #WWW, you can't really run away from #CloudFlare anymore. However, #Mastodon is very different because of its decentralization. I hope I will find a suitable new instance soon.
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
Privacy matters! But what if the tools meant to protect us are being misused? Our latest study (to appear ARES '24) reveals surprising facts about HTTP Client Hints (HTTP CHs) on the Web. [THREAD]
Why is automatic hyphenation not used so widely in the web? Justified texts with hyphenation just look so better. Can someone explain this to me? Maybe I‘m missing something … #CSS#webdesign#www
it took several years, but I finally scored a boxed copy of Wildcat! 5 BBS.
this very late version of the server software was released in 1996, during the rapid death spiral of the bbs scene
it advertises itself as a bbs <-> internet bridge, and that your board effectively runs as a mini ISP. it even comes with its own baffling Wildcat! Navigator browser, which might be a rebadged Netscape (?)
one of my goofy side projects will be to some day run this janky bbs on an old dual processor Pentium II I have laying around, and set it live on the #www
🌐 30 years of the web down under: how Australians made the early internet their own
➥ @theconversationau
「 In late 1992, the first Australian web server was installed. The Bioinformatics Hypermedia Server was set up by David Green at the Australian National University in Canberra, who launched his LIFE website that October. LIFE later claimed to be “Australia’s first information service on the World Wide Web” 」
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)
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..
"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
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... 🤭
FCC chair: Speed standard of 25Mbps down, 3Mbps up isn’t good enough anymore (arstechnica.com)
Chair proposes 100Mbps national standard and an evaluation of broadband prices.
Biden administration announces more new funding for rural broadband infrastructure (apnews.com)
The Biden administration is continuing its push to bring internet connectivity to every home and business in the U.S.
FCC says “too bad” to ISPs complaining that listing every fee is too hard (arstechnica.com)
Comcast and other ISPs asked FCC to ditch listing-every-fee rule. FCC says "no."