some of you know that i've been working on a decentralized reddit-like that uses an ancient ambrosian protocol called nntp, minus #usenet, called #tomo
after several requests for a project status page, and lacking the courage to build a fancy web portal that is 190mb and 20,000 javascript calls, i did the exact opposite:
i stayed up until 2am and wrote a #homepage is absolute raw satan-approved php. it generates the webpages from text files with a tiny markup language i wrote at the same time
for now, the tomo homepage is a plain old .plan file (when's the last time we heard that word, since the carmack vs romero wars?), and you can have any colour you want as long as it's amber and looks like wordperfect 5.1 running on some godforsaken library terminal on the #worldwideweb
is it like a blog? kinda. i'll set up some more static pages for project-related stuff in the coming days
if people really, really want to, and someone asks nicely, i'll even run a fingerd server so you can finger me and pull down the .plans down yourself 😅
if you had a #macintosh in the early 90s, you probably played the multiplayer tank battle game, Bolo.
and if you played Bolo, you probably visited jolo's Bolo Home Page. it was the bolo resource on the web, and it began its life on the authors' Duke University Med School web space, before it moved to lgm.com where it lived for ten years.
lgm.com was cybersquatted in the late 2000s, and the bolo home page disappeared from the public consciousness.
the site has hundreds of individual pages, and exploring its pages truly feels like an exercise in hyperlinking.
i spent the last few days recovering the site from IA and rebuilt its absolute link structure. please enjoy the Bolo Home Page for the first time in 15 years :)
DHL will keine praktischen Links für Neuzustellungen
Digitalcourage e.V. hat eine Website mit hilfreichen Direktlinks auf DHL-Formulare aufgesetzt. Dem Paketunternehmen gefällt dieser Service aber offenbar nicht.
:worldwideweb_app: Developing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript for the web just got a whole lot easier: we’re happy to announce a new version of WorldWideWeb with major improvements to auto refresh. Check out the video below or visit our blog to learn more. 🌐 #WebDev#HTML#CSS#JavaScript#WWWApp#NotZelda
I still think #WorldWideWeb should retain all the easy #frontend development features—no need to strip that out. But a proxy port field with an optional URI path that shunts requests there instead of the static folder would be great.
The #WorldWideWeb was launched into public domain to connect people all over the world, yet the goodwill went unheeded, as it has become more and more monetized. I suppose the #WWW is indeed a reflection of humanity in general - #SurveillanceCapitalism for #greed, #influencer culture for #envy, and uncivility for #wrath. 30 years later, I wonder if we really deserve new #technology if we don't use them to improve ourselves as sentient beings?
On April 30, 1803, The United States purchases the Louisiana Territory from from the French First Republic for $15 million, more than doubling the size of the country.
Also, that's $40 billion in today's dollars.
France only controlled a small fraction of this area, most of which was inhabited by Native Americans which the U.S. would have to obtain by treaty or by conquest.
After the NCSA released the Mosaic web browser later that year, the Web's popularity grew rapidly as thousands of websites sprang up in less than a year.
Earlier, The Gore Bill helped fund the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, which team developed the Mosaic web browser.
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 don't think people appreciate the role that #OperaSoftware played in fostering the #OpenWeb and #IndieWeb during the first #browserWar (when the #OperaBrowser was still built on their proprietary #Presto engine), and a fortiori the role it had in their demise (when they switched to being “just another #WebKit/#Blink skin”), despite their browser never even reaching a 3% market share.
And one of the keys to an open anything is ease of access. And sure enough, there are still plenty of dedicated tools to access specific parts of the #Internet that are not the #WorldWideWeb: clients for FTP, gopher, finger, USENET, email, IRC or even new hypertext navigation protocols like #Gemini exist.
But why should I need a different client for each when I could access the whole Internet from a single client?