A great day, indeed. Some more context: "Berners-Lee had been experimenting with hypertext for at least a decade before he began coding the Web. In the proposal he referenced a piece of software he’d developed in 1980, called ‘Enquire’, which he says was conceptually similar to Apple’s later product, HyperCard (which had been released in 1987, just a couple of years before his proposal)."
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1990: Programming the World Wide Web
In the final few months of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee and his CERN colleague Robert Cailliau develop the world’s first browser, create the HTML markup...
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Stefan Bohacek (@stefan@stefanbohacek.online)
It was on this day 36 years ago when @timbl@w3c.social submitted his proposal to CERN for an "information management system", precursor to the Worl...
Google has just launched Gemini Code Assist for individuals, a free AI-coding assistant offering *90 times* more code completions than GitHub Copilot. Reminiscent of when Google launched Gmail in 2004 offering one gigabyte of storage space — more than 100 times what Yahoo and Microsoft had at the time. https://thenewstack.io/google-ai-coding-tool-now-free-with-90x-copilots-output/ #AIcoding #aidevelopment tip @npub1t0qu...ayut
I've been noticing some major #enshittification of the Facebook product recently. I keep having to log in repeatedly, I get nonsensical notifications that I don't want, I get errors like the attached, Mark Zuckerberg inexplicably turned up in my DMs (it was a mass DM, attempting to do some Discord-like thing), and they auto-deleted a recent post of mine because I had the nerve to link to my own website. I only still use FB because of family and a few local community pages. But the product sucks. image
“What the fediverse currently is, is a countercultural network with little interest in mainstream pop culture.” +1. Worth noting that the early Web was also nurtured by “countercultural” types — eg hippies on The Well who went on to found Wired, etc. I even mentioned this today in my post about IUMA in 1994: “Like much of the early Web, it had an anti-establishment feel — one of its goals was to create a distribution alternative to record labels.”
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Internet Underground Music Archive in 1994
By early 1994, the Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA) has migrated from Usenet and Gopher to the emerging internet platform, the World Wide ...
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Connected Places (@fediversereport@mastodon.social)
New: Fediverse Report # 103 This week I wrote about #fediverse as a countercultural place for pop culture, and how that affects goals to bring the...
One of my all-time favorite artists is Lana Del Rey, and in this week's Cybercultural I chronicle her breakthrough year of 2011 — and how YouTube and social media were pivotal to her rise. 2011 was when Lana achieved "internet fame", which eventually led to a far greater level of fame.
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How Lana Del Rey Found Internet Fame on YouTube in 2011
With YouTube growing fast in 2011, struggling musician Lizzy Grant decides to re-launch her career with a new name and image, new social media acco...
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Quote-posting this via [@phanpy](
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 ) (why is this even an issue when there are very good 3rd-party tools that do it? 🤷)
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Chris Trottier (@atomicpoet@mastodon.social)
As a reminder, if you absolutely cannot wait for quote posts to happen, and you must quote post *now*, here's your options: 1. Alternatives to Mas...
It’s pretty incredible to see Pixelfed take off, after a very long period of Daniel valiently promoting the service on Mastodon every day. Just goes to show that an app or website can “pop” at any time, and get that magical tipping point moment. It’s something all of us indies dream of for our little projects, but it’s quite rare to achieve. So enjoy it @dansup and all the best for continued growth!
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dansup (@dansup@mastodon.social)
82% funded in under 12 hours. Wow 😍 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/pixelfed/pixelfed-foundation-2024-real-ethical-social-networks?ref=1h...
I mean, this does sound awesome, and tbh it’s something Bluesky is closer to implementing than the fediverse (caveats apply re decentralization in Bluesky tho) -> “Developers can't imagine a world where they write a new web app, and people immediately start using it, storing the data on their own pods and their community's pods.” TBL
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Tim Berners-Lee (@timbl@w3c.social)
Just published a new DesignIssues note on the general vision of what a world will be like with everyone in control of their own data - the Solid P...
Tired: Blogging on WordPress Wired: Running an indie website like it’s the 1990s Expired: Your 2 cents posted on billionaire-owned social media
Was thinking about web rings tonight and came across this post. I don’t know for sure if Google actively penalises web rings (or links pages), but we have lost something by not having them anymore. Curation of indie websites / blogs was an important part of the early web, including early Web 2.0. https://mastodon.social/@HumanServitor/113573150261668389