What to call this internet that we should move to. I use #openweb as this is what it is, or #web1.5 for more geeky conversations. Then fall back to #Fediverse for insiders and just #mastodon for the #mainstreaming normal people.
Are you missing the experience of #Web1 random meaty information from experts? I'm on a weekly email list from #Gard, "The World's Leading #Shipping Insurer", and I highly recommend it!
It's easy to ignore, but if you feel like clicking in, you can hear about the #coup in #gabon, or the latest in #windPower for #ContainerShips, or the dangers of fumigating grain in transit... And it's all written for people doing work.
If I was a #SpaceOpera writer, or running a #verse or #traveller game, I would have great story seeds from this.
Anyway, they're so web 1.0 that to sign up you need to go to https://www.gard.no/web/frontpage and fill in a form, but I think it's worth it.
Been thinking about starting a small, fun bootcamp — taking a group of people through the process of registering their own domain name, setting up hosting (using free/cheap options!), and building a simple personal web page/site. 100% inspired by @sophie 🤩
Probably three live sessions: (1) getting the domain and hosting, (2) basic semantic HTML, and (3) styling with CSS.
Open to anyone, but designed for novices. No cost.
Just trying to check interest at this point. Any thoughts?
In a way, IRC was federated, in the sense that different servers are interconnected.
We used to experience a lot of server splits then. Whenever it happened, the only users left in your room are those still “federated” with the server you've logged-on. Then a major drama, and some server admins split up and formed their own IRC network.
Then, there is email and Jabber/XMPP (late 90s), which are federated.
#Web2 was defined (from what I've read years ago) as when corporate structure took over, redefind the web into silos.
While #Web1 was understood as the first phase of the #SocialWeb.
And #Web3 as decentralised, distributed, federated, open, network; or the next phase in SocialWeb.
Hi! After studying chemistry, I’ve spent the last twenty five years in IT, first as a #Web1.0 programmer and #sysop during the 90’s, then in #itsupport and #dataanalyst roles this century.
I read “My Side of the Mountain” and “The Mysterious Island” as a kid and have always been fascinated with a diy approach to civilization: #camping, #gardening, #hamradio, and #brewing.