CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@bmac @raganwald it was the era that gave us Wikipedia, Mozilla, and the Internet Archive. There definitely was a trend of philanthropy amongst the Silicon Valley capitalists that’s just not there anymore

@hell and yesterweb
and indie web
and slow web

Andrew Wooldridge ⛰️ (@triptych@social.lol)

@ilovecomputers@xoxo.zone I feel like the core of what we loved about the internet is there - it's hiding in chat rooms, little closed member forums, hand crafted websites. It's not gone, just harder to see, but if you dig through the muck, you find yourself in a small meadow with a few other folks who might share with you something good.

social.lol (social.lol)

To be less of a downer, I want to pin this reply thread on this post as it contains links to indie websites and communities that continue to live on. It’s not just nostalgia; even amongst the next generation, there’s growing enthusiasm for slow tech.

@sarajw @mutkitta @triptych the first issue cover of good internet zine is pretty apt

@mirabilos I could be wrong, but the 2010s is when the internet became so normalized in the US that you had to be in abject poverty to not have it. Like I had a friend who wasn’t online until he was in high school in the 2000s

@mirabilos 90s kids like me too. So I’d say up to early Gen Z

Sums up my experience growing up