Dominik Schwind

February 22, 2023

Keith Lynch's timeline of net related terms and concepts #

Here is Keith Lynch's timeline of net related terms, concepts, stories, and people, showing when they were first mentioned in my archives. I've been saving email and netnews for a long time. I now have close to three gigabytes of it, stretching back to the first email I ever sent or received, 28 years ago.

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May 2024

Takes spread like wildfire #

Hm.

April 2024

Long Lost Song Hunted By Thousands Found in 80s Porno #

Finally

January 2024

20 Years Later, the Y2K Bug Seems Like a Joke—Because Those Behind the Scenes Took It Seriously #

Praise the infrastructure nerds. They're the real heroes of our times.

The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again #

Well, let's hope it does.

November 2023

Physics reveals secret of how nature helped sculpt the Great Sphinx of Giza #

So it wasn't aliens?

October 2023

Metafilter: 20+ years in, you think you know a site #

MetaFilter is such a weird website. I used to love it but that's quite a while in the past.

Google shattered human connection #

I feel this loss of community online every day.

Taylor Lorenz and Hasan Piker on Tumblr, Trolls, and Getting Doxxed #

September 2023

The end of the Googleverse #

Well, well.

August 2023

“The Famous F40” vector illustration by David Rumfelt #

I like those little glimpses into the history of artifacts of our times

Netscape Meteors #

Those were the days.

Why haven’t internet creators become superstars? #

We like things not just because we’re exposed to them, but because, before exposure, we have opened our hearts to liking them.

Splitting the Web #

Hm.

July 2023

The World’s Last Internet Cafes #

Fascinating look at the history and present situation of internet cafes

"THAT did not age well" and the battle between generations #

/u/spez is right about feudalism and that’s why reddit as we know it is doomed #

June 2023

Who killed Google Reader? #

The illusion of moral decline #

An ancient device too advanced to be real gives up its secrets at last #

If You Post a Delicious Bagel Sandwich on the Internet, Do You Have to Say Where You Got It? #

What languages dominate the internet? #

The Original Psychotherapists Were Shamans and Priests #

May 2023

Puritanism took over online fandom — and then came for the rest of the internet #

How This Seemingly Brutal Instagram Account Is Promoting Mental Health #

Do we misremember Eternal September? #

I don’t hate it though #

April 2023

Dril Is Everyone. More Specifically, He’s a Guy Named Paul. #

March 2023

The True Story of Bangkok's Ghost Tower #

Kottke.org Is 25 Years Old Today and I’m Going to Write About It #

The History and Politics of Wuxia #