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I decided Cybercultural needs a blog, so that I can post rants and personal thoughts. I'm starting with this post on my web values, aka why I don't post on X. Let me know if my web values align with yours. cybercultural.com/p/web-values/ #IndieWeb #FediverseForFreedom

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Alice Mary Hilton is as significant as Marshall McLuhan in the history of cyberculture theory. In fact, she invented the word! Also, her 1960s focus on the practical impacts of computer automation on society is more important than ever in 2025, with the rise of AI. cybercultural.com/p/cybercultu...

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I assess the state of dev tools in the AI-assisted coding era. I'm not a professional dev, but for my various web projects I use a combo of VS Code + Copilot, ChatGPT (I pay for Pro version) and playing around with new apps like Bolt and Warp. How about you? thenewstack.io/ai-powered-c... #AIcoding

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ajaxian.com on January 31, 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20060131192046if_/http://www.ajaxian.com:80

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Three Hollywood movies were released in 1995 with internet themes: Johnny Mnemonic, The Net, and Hackers. In this post I also look back at William Gibson's now extinct mid-90s website & the equally lost to time Johnny Mnemonic net.hunt. cybercultural.com/p/cyberspace... #InternetHistory #90smovies

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A territorial battle between two pheasants in our front yard today. #birds #ukbirds

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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. cybercultural.com/p/geocities-... #InternetHistory #GeoCities

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Good discussion happening on Hacker News about my #GeoCities 1995 post: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4329... If you're on Hacker News, I'd appreciate your upvotes (I think this is the first time a Cybercultural post has got to the front page there).

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"This is the next wave of the net — not just information but habitation." GeoCities founder David Bohnett said that in 1995. What would that quote be now, 30 years later? 2025 version: "This is the next wave of the net — not disinformation, but re-habitation." cybercultural.com/p/geocities-...

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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. cybercultural.com/p/geocities-... #InternetHistory #GeoCities

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digg.com on August 19, 2006 https://web.archive.org/web/20060819082805if_/http://www.digg.com:80

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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. cybercultural.com/p/internet-1... #InternetHistory #Netscape

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lycos.com on October 22, 1996 https://web.archive.org/web/19961022175214/http://www.lycos.com/

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Of all the classic websites that have come up in my bot’s feed, this is the one that most has things in common with Bluesky. And yet…this was its sad fate according to Wikipedia: “In February 2017, the website was acquired by Israeli software company Wix.com in a $36 million deal.”

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New avatar for @classicweb.site Of course it’s the original 1994 Netscape mascot by the great Dave Titus: www.davetitus.com/mozilla/

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theringer.com on December 14, 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20161214014036/https://theringer.com/?gi=db2ca452f6a1

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I changed my bot's name to "Classic Web" and then noticed the domain classicweb.site was available, so I bought that. Should I change my bot's handle accordingly? (currently @bot.cybercultural.com) I like the tie-in to my main site, but I can still promote it while giving the bot a unique identity.

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Back in the good old days, before everything gets shut down (ref www.techmeme.com/250228/p10#a...)

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altavista.com on October 22, 1996 https://web.archive.org/web/19961022174810if_/http://www.altavista.com/

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

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Warp, the command-line terminal app built for AI, has finally arrived on Windows. I spoke with Warp founder Zach Lloyd about the release. He says its "the first time on Windows that people are getting a 100% native AI-first developer tool." thenewstack.io/warp-launche... #AIdevelopment

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Google has just launched Gemini Code Assist for individuals, a free AI-coding assistant offering 90 times more code completions than GitHub Copilot. Reminiscent of when Google launched Gmail in 2004 offering one GB storage space — more than 100x Yahoo & Microsoft. thenewstack.io/google-ai-co...

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Who did it best: Twitter’s fail whale, or Ning’s code monkey?

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twitter.com on October 25, 2007 https://web.archive.org/web/20071025184516if_/http://twitter.com

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The beginning of blogging, 28 years ago!

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A pheasant drops by the bird feeder. #birds #ukbirds

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Apparently the Fark website still exists. I just visited for the first time in 20 years (but I probably won’t be back for another 20).

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My internet history bot, @bot.cybercultural.com, now has its own custom handle (thanks @quillmatiq.com for the tip!). So my bot is basically a first-class citizen on Bluesky now, even though it's hosted on Mastodon and the code only liases with Mastodon. But you get all the same content on Bluesky.

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“Every photo tells a story”. I’d forgotten Flickr had this as a homepage back in 2004. I don’t think it lasted long? I always remember their homepage as fairly minimalist, but this version is quite busy.

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I'd like to introduce you all to my Mastodon bot, which you can now follow here on Bluesky (via Bridgey). Cybercultural bot is screenshots of classic websites and blogs from Dot-Com, Web 2.0 and the 2010s. You'll see all the posts exactly as they are in Mastodon, since they're short + image-based.

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