What the internet could be by Clarissa Littler talks about the Beaker browser, Gemini, Gopher, and the world of pubnixes. Ah, the shell accounts of old! Still there! 😀
Anyway, this is my Gemini recommendation: Left Adjoint.
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Felix writes about similar things; in Web for the people they link to Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web and Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web, by Parimal Satyal.
Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web
Plain old webpages, also by Felix Pleşoianu, is about how content management systems make it harder and harder to extricate your text from the application that hosts it. How much of that is really necessary? How much is lost for the benefit of a automatic links added here and there?
– Alex 2021-07-13 06:58 UTC
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@jgoerzen writes about the value of old & small technologies:
Small technology is any tech that has a small footprint: doesn’t require a powerful machine to run, doesn’t have a lot of bloat, doesn’t have anti-features like spyware and tracking. Technology that is old enough is almost always small because, by modern standards, that’s all that was possible back then. Some small tech is old, some is modern. Embedded systems are an example of modern small tech development in many cases. – Old and Small Technology
– Alex 2022-02-04 16:42 UTC