Oh, I'm going to love going through all of these - thank you for this excellent post!
My own contribution is a New Yorker article from 1995, The Dawn of the Home Page, which a friend who is also interested in small web stuff sent me a few months back. It's a fascinating time capsule from an era when people understood the web through analogies like dorm rooms and communes.
I particularly loved a "cyber-rap" (ignoring the cringe terminology) that the author quotes partway through, which is actually called 'Forging Culture' by Justin Hall, and is archived in full here. Like picori mentions upthread, it's something that is still startlingly applicable to the internet today:
Culture doesn't come from Warner Brothers and Sony. Culture is that woman friend of yours who tells the most outrageous stories.
Culture doesn't cost big bucks, and hang in a gallery of modern art. Culture is your friend who likes to draw...
The web is an opportunity to make good our fifteen megabytes of fame.
...The more widespread and grassroots the Internet, the more difficult it will be to dominate and control it. You can contribute directly to the humanizing of the wires by telling your story, adding your persona to the unaffiliated.
It's a really nice rallying cry for the small web xD
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Date: 2024-09-01 01:23 am (UTC)My own contribution is a New Yorker article from 1995, The Dawn of the Home Page, which a friend who is also interested in small web stuff sent me a few months back. It's a fascinating time capsule from an era when people understood the web through analogies like dorm rooms and communes.
I particularly loved a "cyber-rap" (ignoring the cringe terminology) that the author quotes partway through, which is actually called 'Forging Culture' by Justin Hall, and is archived in full here. Like
It's a really nice rallying cry for the small web xD