DialUp95 – A 90s inspired nostalgia hit
#HackerNews #DialUp95 #Nostalgia #90sRetro #TechRevival #InternetHistory
#internethistory
Time is Honey - how an algorithm developed by observing honey bees led to a breakthrough in routing Internet traffic.
#Bees #Biology #entomology #Internet #InternetHistory #LoadBalancing #RadioLab
Euronews: ‘Me at the zoo’: First ever YouTube upload acquired by London’s V&A museum. “The museum has acquired a reconstruction of an early YouTube watch page, featuring the first video ever uploaded to the site: Jawed Karim’s Me at the zoo. Visitors will be able to see a recording of the YouTube page as they would have 20-years ago, but without the harmonious electronic dial-up modem sounds.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/19/me-at-the-zoo-first-ever-youtube-upload-acquired-by-londons-va-museum-euronews/
#YouTube #video #InternetHistory #GLAM
"The Victoria and Albert museum's digital conservation team has reconstructed the inaugural YouTube watch page from 2005 showing the 19-second clip 'Me at the zoo'."
A while back I ran across a post where someone commented that the designers of IPv4 had made a mistake only using 32 bit addresses. Yes, it would have saved us hassle if they’d kept the variable-length addresses from the IPv3 draft, but I think they actually made a reasonable decision given what the technology world was like at the time, and I wrote an article to talk about that.
https://lpar.ath0.com/posts/2026/01/ipv4-history/ #ComputingHistory #InternetHistory
🇮🇹 Italy hosted the Winter Games in 2006 and they’re carving fresh tracks in the show again, right now, in 2026 ❄️⛷️⛸️
Official sites get replaced, but you can still revisit the originals & compare past and present on the #WaybackMachine ⤵️
https://web.archive.org
The Register: Log files that describe the history of the internet are disappearing. A new project hopes to save them . “For almost 30 years, the PingER project at the USA’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory used ping thousands of time each day to measure the time a packet of data required to make a round trip between two nodes on the internet. But in 2024, the last person working on the […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/17/the-register-log-files-that-describe-the-history-of-the-internet-are-disappearing-a-new-project-hopes-to-save-them/AV Club: The lost art of the mashup. “YouTube megamixes were the last, gaudy flourish of a long mashup tradition, and their asphyxiation by copyright bots, slow‑core streaming, and social atomization doubles as an obituary for monoculture.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/14/av-club-the-lost-art-of-the-mashup/
Like a lot of personal sites from that era, links.net initially focused on web curation. However, Justin’s posts inevitably became more focused on his personal life.
Justin’s online diary is lucid, includes many external hyperlinks, and details intimate moments and thoughts from his life. It’s quite in contrast to what we might expect from a modern site.
The IETF (@ietf) has made a remarkable amount of great April Fools satire of their own technical documents. They're definitely worth the read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_Request_for_Comments. #ietf #aprilfools #humor #humour #satire #programmerhumor #programminghumor #internet #ascii #asciiart #parody #rfc #wikipedia #internethistory
![Waitzman Experimental [Page 1]
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RFC 2549 IP over Avian Carriers with QoS 1 April 1999
Weighted fair queueing (WFQ) MAY be implemented using scales, as
shown:
ASCII art of a scale. On the left is a box in two segments, both containing the text "10g." On the right is a crudely drawn ASCII art of a bird facing right. There are two consecutive periods beneath the bird on the scale, representing something that is eluded to with the text beneath:
Carriers in the queue too long may leave log entries, as shown on the
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In the latest post in my history of web design, we enter 1994 — when the Web shifts into a publishing medium. As site authors seek control over formatting and design, the WWW-Talk mailing list hosts an early debate over style sheets and presentation. Also, I look at typical web design elements of websites in 1994. https://cybercultural.com/p/1994-web-design/ #WebDesign #InternetHistory
Meine Reise durch die digitale Welt – und warum sie mich hierher geführt hat. 🌍💻
Hier nachlesen: https://www.stawi.de/blog-serie-meine-reise-durch-die-digitale-welt/
Ich freue mich auf eure Gedanken dazu! Wer von euch hat eine ähnliche Reise hinter sich?
#Blogging #DigitalerRückzug #Netzkultur #Meta #Mastodon #stawi #InternetHistory #Selbstbestimmung
![<img alt="Gopher burrows on" src="https://goodinternetmagazine.com/content/images/2026/01/gopher.png" /><p>I still remember <a href="https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html?ref=goodinternetmagazine.com">that coffee machine</a><sup class="footnote-ref"><a href="#fn1" id="fnref1">[1]</a></sup>. I recall how we used to stay up in the university computer lab, often until late at night, fascinated in front of its image while immersed in the ghostly glare of some black and white Mac SE/30 screen monitors. We repeatedly refreshed our Mosaic window in the tantalizing hope of catching the glimpse of a hand reaching for the pot in that distant lab in Cambridge. Suddenly, all distances seemed annihilated. We were in a small computer lab of a minor Swiss university, but we were also in Cambridge at the very same time.</p>
<p>This is my first vivid memory of that shining new thing called the World Wide Web, or WWW or even W3 for short. But it certainly isn't my first memory of connecting to the larger Internet and discovering a new kind of wonder and excitement there. Oh yes: and also a vast, useful source of information... After all, we were supposed to study and research, weren't we?</p>
<p>I first went online just in time to learn about <a href="http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/?ref=goodinternetmagazine.com">BBSes</a>, and used to irregularly visit some of them. I have vague but fond memories of a quirky world of servers, each one with its own distinct personality. But, alth](https://files.mastodon.social/cache/media_attachments/files/116/026/041/946/482/511/original/0cac261fa5fcf864.png)
Finding indie: Carving my path through online connections
ASCII art is an art born from limitations
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://goodinternetmagazine.com/ascii-art-is-an-art-born-from-limitations/
Запуск Facebook і початок епохи соціальних мереж
https://buymeacoffee.com/valdeloir/facebook-4447054
#соціальнімережі #цифроваепоха #інтернетісторія #Facebook #технології
#socialmedia #digitalevolution #internethistory #Facebook #technology
Ran the search.
Nothing came back.
#OSINT #Archival #TechCulture #InternetHistory #Archives #Epstein
💕 I Love Free Software Day 2026 💕
For this year’s I Love Free Software Day I am co-organising two special events, and I am super excited about them!
- 🧶 Knitting Our Internet at Snackbar Frieda, Rotterdam, on Friday Feb 13th at 18:00. All information here.
- 🛹 A reading of @kirschner’s Ada & Zangemann in English and in Dutch. After that, a conversation about Free Software maintenance as care work, together with @mayel from @Bonfire ❤️🔥 at the @internetarchiveeurope, Oudeschans 16, Amsterdam on Saturday Feb 14th at 14:00. All information here. Info about the super cool poster in the post below.
#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #ILoveFS #ILoveFreeSoftware #ILoveFS #IloveFS26 #ournet #KnittingOurInternet #SnackbarFrieda #Rotterdam #Amsterdam #InternetArchive #InternetArchiveEurope #AZbook #Ada #AdaZangemann #reading #event #decentralizaion #InternetHistory #Internet
Gmail didn’t become the world’s default inbox because it was perfect — or even because people loved it.
It won by redefining how email worked, then scaling that model relentlessly. Reliability and ecosystem mattered more than privacy for most users.
I wrote about how Gmail grew from an invitation-only experiment into the baseline inbox of the web.
Next event: A critical history of being online
When: 29/01, 18:00
Where: Lauschangriff, Rigaer str. 103, Berlin
We would like to introduce the term “online life” to include everything we do online from maps, scrolling, guidance, news, dating, communications, and more. We would like to explore equivalence though history and media, examining technologies of money, language, affect, nature and knowing. What historical conditions did the spontaneous imaginary of communities and collectives come under the control of centralized and exploitative powers? When did self and social bonds explode into ever expanding alienating assemblages?
We'll be summarizing excerpts from Grundrisse (Marx) and Symbolic Economies (Goux) - no pre-reading required!
#berlin #tech #technology #internethistory #criticaltheory #online
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