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  • against the dark forest
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    The social internet should be a forest—not The Dark Forest, but something much more like a real one: Interconnected from the densely mycelial underground to light-filtering overstory but also offering infinite niches and multi-scale zones of sheltered exchange and play. Deeply human in the way that real forests are the result of human and other-than-human collaboration running back into unrecorded time. Balanced, neither extracting too much from its component organisms nor pretending that a pantomime of a return to a pristine and ungoverned state will solve any problems at all. (Predation is inevitable in any system, but a working ecosystem starves out the ones who overfeed and provides cover for growth and for the long, continuous experiment of evolutionary change.)
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  • Best of the old web | MetaFilter
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    Exhausted from election 2024 and tired of re-litigating the 2016 primary? Perhaps you'd enjoy re-visiting The Race for the Whitehouse 2004 or 2000 in their original web 1.0 glory. Too soon? The 1996 websites for the Dole/Kemp and Clinton/Gore campaigns are still online. Too political? Maybe you want to play Star Ship Titanic (1998) or Space Jam (1996), both preserved in high resolution 1024x768 perfection. Or relax with zombo.com (1999), spork.org (1996) and milk.com (1994). These are all reminders that Cool URI's don't change on the WWW project (1991).
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  • IMG_0001
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    Between 2009 and 2012, iPhones had a built-in "Send to YouTube" button in the Photos app. Many of these uploads kept their default IMG_XXXX filenames, creating a time capsule of raw, unedited moments from random lives. Inspired by Ben Wallace, I made a bot that crawled YouTube and found 5 million of these videos! Watch them below, ordered randomly.
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  • BASIC HTML COMPETENCY IS THE NEW PUNK FOLK EXPLOSION!
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    I know I have a tendency to classify anything I love as "Punk", in the same way a child calls any tall, nice-smelling presence "Mom", BUT! I feel like homemade websites are a type of Punk. And I know it feels premature to say that basic HTML competency is a type of folk craft, but I'm not sure what else to call it.
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  • About – StarSubculture
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    StarSubculture is an online community space where creatives can showcase their websites and art and interact with a like-minded community as well as keep up with their favorite artists and websites! In this era of the internet, it’s become near-impossible to connect to other creative website owners. Here at StarSubculture, you’re free to cultivate that community that the internet is so desperately needing.
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  • nekoweb
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    Nekoweb is a free static website hosting service, created in 2022 2023 2024 by a group of coders, programmers and artists, passionate for the old web and personal websites. Social media is too limiting. We believe that everyone should be able to freely express themselves in their own little corner of the web, without having to worry about things like algorithms, tracking, or advertisements.
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  • It feels like 2004 again. - Anil Dash
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    I keep having a conversation with people around the tech world about how the industry’s current state of change — especially the potential disruption of incumbents — feels like nothing so much as a cyclical repeat of what we saw in 2004.
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  • HTML for People
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    HTML isn’t only for people working in the tech field. It’s for anybody, the way documents are for anybody. HTML is just another type of document. A very special one—the one the web is built on.
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  • The Web We've (Never) Lost
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    Doesn't it feel like the web is getting worse every day? Do you miss the days when Google wasn't a garbage factory, Twitter wasn't a cesspool of Nazis, and you weren't treated like a pair of eyeballs with a wallet? Don't worry, the web of yore is still alive and kicking – in fact, it's thriving. You just need to know where to look. Let's take a dive into the non-mainstream web, where people create blogs and websites for the sheer joy of it, algorithmic feeds are nowhere to be found – and you can join, too!
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  • Resources for keeping the web free, open, and poetic | Stefan Bohacek
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    I’ve been running my own personal website for over 15 years now. It has been a fun learning experience, and an opportunity to share my work and get to know a ton of amazing people. And I’d like to help others to do the same without needing to learn how to manage servers or be a rock star programmer.
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  • Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information - Aftermath
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    Here are the Internet forums that are still alive and kicking and full of information and interesting people.
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  • Molly White, Citation Needed / Web3 Is Going Just Great - XOXO Festival (2024) - YouTube
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    Best known for puncturing blockchain/crypto hype with her Web3 Is Going Just Great project, writer/researcher Molly White believes a better web is possible. Launched two years ago, her Citation Needed newsletter covers “tech world without all the boosterism,” while her latest project tracks the crypto industry’s attempts to influence the 2024 elections.
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  • Why YOU Should Make a Website! - YouTube
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    Hey everyone! Today I wanted to talk about the state of the internet, how artists and everyone is affected by AI slop and social media, and why I think everyone should have a personal website these days! Let's bring back the old school internet in new, fun, and creative ways! ^_^
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