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Today I ran across @ricmac and his new, truly expansive piece on the history of (the admittedly centralized) GeoCities and its origins.

I had a GeoCities site myself in the 90s (that is sadly lost to time now), and I didn't know all this wild history Richard dug up for this.

A must-read if you're into the whole 90s early web thing: cybercultural.com/p/geocities-

GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet image
CyberculturalGeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet
More from Richard MacManus
#GeoCities#HTML#90s

24 years ago this week, Google made its first acquisition, a Usenet archive called Dejanews. I was a regular. In this blog post I tell you where Google hides that treasure trove of information from long before Reddit. #retrocomputing #dotcomera #webhistory #usenet dfarq.homeip.net/deja-news-goo

The Silicon Underground · Deja News: Google's first acquisitionBefore Reddit, before Stack Overflow, there were Usenet Newsgroups.

i've noticed in recent years that the laudable return to personal homepages has generally brought with it a very specific re-imagining of 1990s web design - usually lo-fi 1994 html-only and neon cyberpunkish affairs with loud animated gifs.

lost in that specific imaginary are 1996-1997 corporate designs that brought a slightly more conservative aesthetic that nonetheless remained playful.

if you played Inherit the Earth: Quest for the Orb, Dinotopia, or Faery Tale Adventure 2 you would remember The Dreamers Guild. this is their corporate site still live and maintained by joe pearce and brad schenck.

inherittheearth.net/dgi/indexn

Friends, I am a total noob developer to CGI and Perl!

So I decided to finally try it.

It is so good and fun! I can totally understand the hype people had when then I was playing in the sandbox, literally in a sandbox.

This is my first CGI server app, screenshot is just amazing. Definitely adding this to my toy Github projects.

It's funny, when the web and personal computers first got started, recipes were often cited as the 'killer app' hauled out whenever an enthusiast wanted to explain why regular people would want a machine in their home, or why they'd use the 'net.

Now some 30yrs later, it seems like recipe sites are the harbingers of everything wrong with the web. So many of them are now mostly SEO-laden link-farms, and ad-revenue trash.

Given the recent news about YouTube account deletion, I've started a public spreadsheet to collect links to tech/internet-related videos to download and save: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d

There's so much important historical ephemera - ads, edutainment, training videos, etc - that was never formally saved but can be found on YT.

My current plan is to slowly collect download videos and upload them to the Internet Archive.

(@admin1, would you consider boosting this?)

docs.google.comYouTube Tech Ephemera Preservation List - Google Drive

I've been on here for years and never actually did an #introduction post. Better late than never?
I'm a #neurodivergent #British #Trans Woman with #Dyspraxia, #Dyslexia and #Dyscalculia. I'm a recovering #tech / #computing hobbyist (trying to give it up, don't encourage me).

I'm into #art, #sewing/ #textiles (very much a newbie though), #crafts, #music, #writing / #fiction and #slowmovement.
I was atheist but I'm trying to get into #paganism (#celticpaganism / #celticreconstructionism specifically) and am planning to learn #welsh.

I'm a fan of #doctorwho and I've just started getting into #startrek.

I'm very interested in #webhistory and the #indieweb.
I've had follow requests on (and will likely indefinitely) since the Twitter exodus but feel free to request a follow, I'll accept if you seem like an ok person. Don't be offended if I don't though.

Re-#introduction: I'm currently a lecturer in WGS at Gonzaga Uni. I study #webhistory, specifically how #lgbtq folks used early digital communications. I founded and curate the Queer Digital History Project (queerdigital.com), which preserves info on #queer spaces online pre-2010.

I also have a book coming out in Aug 2023: The Two Revolutions: A History of the #Transgender Internet (nyupress.org/9781479818310/the).

So mostly, I share old tech stuff that amuses me.