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!

Per info aggiornate, visitate https://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. https://cybercultural.com/p/cyberspace-movies-1995/ #InternetHistory #90smovies

36 years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee wrote a proposal that led to the World Wide Web, bringing the Internet to the masses. It contained early but recognizable descriptions of HTTP, HTML, and the URI. #InternetHistory #RetroComputing #DigitalRevolution #InnovationHistory https://dfarq.homeip.net/the-1989-proposal-that-led-to-the-world-wide-web/

#GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet | #Cybercultural

https://cybercultural.com/p/geocities-1995/

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.
https://cybercultural.com/p/geocities-1995/ #GeoCities #Nostalgia #InternetHistory #WebDesign #Throwback #90sMemories #HackerNews #ngated

"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."

https://cybercultural.com/p/geocities-1995/

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/

A look back at GeoCities in 1995 (30 years ago!), including a couple of rare screenshots of the GeoCities website from 1995 — when it was still known as Beverly Hills Internet. https://cybercultural.com/p/geocities-1995/ #InternetHistory #GeoCities (special thanks to @GIFmodel for the knowledge and @andrewjbtw for the 1995 BHI images)

In 1994, the World Wide Web became the default multimedia channel of the Internet. With the launch of Netscape Navigator and early websites like Yahoo! and HotWired, the Web achieved lift-off. https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1994/ #InternetHistory #Netscape

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) https://cybercultural.com/p/tumblr-2012/ #InternetHistory #Tumblr #gifsets

This week on Cybercultural I continue my look back at 1994 in #InternetHistory. I delve into how Netscape Navigator brought multimedia to the web, what it took to move the industry beyond the "internet in a box" paradigm, and why it was time for the ROMbloids to move aside and make way for the Webuloids! https://cybercultural.com/p/netscape-1994/

Thanks to @andybaio over on Bluesky, original IUMA team member @beach saw my Cybercultural post about IUMA 1994 today, and he sent a bunch of rare 1994 screenshots! So I have updated my post accordingly: https://cybercultural.com/p/iuma-1994/

Thanks David, what a treasure those '94 images are. #InternetHistory

"There were very few websites that went beyond text at the start of '94, so to begin with people didn't quite know what to make of [Internet Underground Music Archive]."

https://cybercultural.com/p/iuma-1994/

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. https://cybercultural.com/p/iuma-1994/

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. https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-2012/ #InternetHistory

I probably already mentioned it, but https://www.deadweb.club is a pretty interesting project that aims to connect people interested in exploring "defunct social media platforms, abandoned 3D worlds, and forgotten blogs".

Their newsletter hasn't been very active, but they just announced a new member joining the team, so definitely worth (re-)subscribing.

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. https://cybercultural.com/p/lana-del-rey-youtube-2011/ #InternetHistory #LanaDelRey

David Bowie, Prince and Peter Gabriel all had interactive CD-ROMs out in 1994, and had plans for further multimedia projects. But by the end of the year, the CD-ROM format was effectively over. And let's not forget Cybermania '94, the Oscars of multimedia! https://cybercultural.com/p/cd-roms-1994/ #InternetHistory #Bowie #Prince