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! :D
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?
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