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🧶 Knitting Our Internet Italy Tour! 🇮🇹

(Versione italiana nel post precedente)

Tomorrow will begin the unbelievable tour of Knitting Our Internet, bringing the workshop around Italy! ⛵

If you’ll be in the places where the workshop will be happening, you are most definitely welcome to join, 🆓 participation is completely free. If you won’t be around, please help me spread the word to friends and curious folks around the country! Everyone is invited. 💕

Thanks to the awesome people who will be hosting me! @collettivodemand @reclaimthetech

✨ Special note: while I will be in Bologna, we are planning to gather in person and collectively attend @fediforum, all together, from Scift, the newborn hackerspace in Làbas!

ℹ️ To get the latest info, visit ournet.rocks/

🧶 La Nostra Rete in tour! 🇮🇹

(English version in the following post)

Da domani partirà il fantasmagorico imperdibile tour de La Nostra Rete, che porterà il workshop in giro per l’Italia! ⛵

Se sarete nei luoghi in cui si terrà il laboratorio siete assolutamente invitatз, 🆓 l’ingresso è libero e gratuito. Se non foste nei paraggi, condividete appppalla con amicз tecnoscetticз, tecnoinnamoratз, tecnoasceticз, tecnorepellenti o tecnoindifferenti. Sono tuttз benvenutз 💕

Grazie alle persone stratopiche che mi ospiteranno! @collettivodemand @reclaimthetech

✨ Nota speciale: mentre sarò a Bologna, ci stiamo organizzando per trovarci di persona e partecipare collettivamente al @fediforum, tuttз insieme da Scift, la nuova officina che aprirà domani a Làbas!

ℹ️ Per info aggiornate, visitate ournet.rocks/it/

Three Hollywood movies were released in 1995 with internet themes: the Keanu Reeves cyberpunk film Johnny Mnemonic (with an accompanying website), The Net with Sandra Bullock, and Hackers. As well as these 3 films, I look back at William Gibson's now extinct mid-90s website, "William Gibson’s Yardshow", and the equally lost to time Johnny Mnemonic net.hunt, an online scavenger hunt. cybercultural.com/p/cyberspace #InternetHistory #90smovies

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I got nostalgic, so I ended up browsing pictures from #DWebCamp2023, and I found these wild shots of me and @timbl. Almost two years have passed, and I still cannot completely believe that I spent time chatting with the creator of the #WorldWideWeb and that he autographed my thesis!

Unbelievable things happen at #DWebCamp.

(Thanks to @mai for the stolen shot 🌻)

Fun fact: @mark kindly came and picked me up at the airport and he drove me and TBL to DWeb Camp. The first thing they asked me about while getting to the car was this patch I had, simulating the hammer and sickle communist symbol, but actually representing a sickle popping open an Aperol Spritz. So there was me, super jet-lagged and hungover (because I had my last exam of my bachelor the day before) trying to explain what that was to the creator of #HTML and the director of the #WaybackMachine. It was super embarrassing but it is a great story to tell.

@dweb #TBL #WWW #Internet #InternetHistory #decentralization #HTTP #Web

Ah, GeoCities: the prehistoric playground where everyone's cousin thought they were a web design genius, unleashing a cacophony of Comic Sans and blinking GIFs onto the unsuspecting public. 🚀💾 Now let's fondly reminisce over why the internet needed a hard reset. 😂🌐
cybercultural.com/p/geocities- #GeoCities #Nostalgia #InternetHistory #WebDesign #Throwback #90sMemories #HackerNews #ngated

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"The key to [Beverly Hills Internet]'s initial growth over 1995 was helping people who had no technical knowledge of HTML to build a web page on the internet. It offered a “Personal GeoPage Generator” that enabled homesteaders to easily create a home page.

But more than that, and as the name for its users implied, Bohnett wanted to give people the sense that they had a home on the internet."

cybercultural.com/p/geocities-

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Variety: YouTube at 20: How the Video Colossus Launched the Creator Economy and Turned From Hollywood Foe to Friend. “Now, no major studio or network can afford not to post its trailers, clips, previews and promotional interviews on the platform. And those same studios and networks are starting to make significant money from YouTube, whether it’s in carriage fees for channels distributed […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/07/youtube-at-20-how-the-video-colossus-launched-the-creator-economy-and-turned-from-hollywood-foe-to-friend-variety/

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In this week's Cybercultural post, I look back on Tumblr in 2012. In particular, I explore how the gifset — a collection of animated gifs — came to epitomize Tumblr's quirky appeal and helped redefine blogging. (note: I fired up my YouTube a/c for this post, recording 4 video screencasts to illustrate some beautiful 2012 gifsets) cybercultural.com/p/tumblr-201 #InternetHistory #Tumblr #gifsets

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This week's look back at #InternetHistory is again about 1994, and what I think was the world's first multimedia website: the Internet Underground Music Archive (IUMA). I tried my best to get some screenshots of IUMA from 1994, even though none appear to exist! I used somewhat blurry images from old YouTube videos and computer magazines. If anyone happens to have, or know of, a 1994 screenshot of IUMA, do let me know and I'll add it to the post. cybercultural.com/p/iuma-1994/

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I wrote in a previous post that 2012 was the year that Web 2.0 quietly died...but it was also when a new kind of internet was born: a more mobile and visual one, with images and videos leading the way. Take a trip with me back to 2012, when YouTube "creators" started to be more popular than mere bloggers, when Facebook acquired Instagram, when Pinterest was a fast-growing social network, and when "picture subreddits" were all the rage. cybercultural.com/p/internet-2 #InternetHistory

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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. cybercultural.com/p/lana-del-r #InternetHistory #LanaDelRey

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