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Inputs and Outputs
Inputs and OutputsJul 28, 2026
Everyone Fled the Feed for the Group Chat.
We don't KNOW what comes next. But looking through the 'streams' we can see 'archipelagos' rising ...
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internet historymedia
space • time • tech
space • time • techJul 19, 2026
The small, real, original web
bloggingblogs
The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café SocialJun 24, 2026
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-23-26
It has been five days since the last edition of Pook-Emu Bee links. While I ordinarily publish links in the morning and it is now the evening, I submit some late links today to keep the backlog under control. [caption id="attachment_6072" align="aligncenter" width="811"] Today (June 23, 2026) was primary election day in New York City....
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advertisingai
NERDS.xyz – Real Tech News for Real Nerds
NERDS.xyz – Real Tech News for Real NerdsMay 3, 2026
Ask.com shuts down after nearly 30 years, taking Jeeves with it
WebAI search
BT
Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful ThingsApr 3, 2026
The tofu product marketed as "the healthy human flesh alternative"
Postcannibalism
Grandes Publicações da Diana
Grandes Publicações da DianaMar 25, 2026
Nossa Maravilhosa Macroesfera
O projeto da Roda dos Seis Reinos em silício e cobre.
social mediasocial engineering
BT
Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful ThingsMar 5, 2026
The most infamous fanfiction of all time turns 20
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Good Internet
Good InternetFeb 6, 2026
ASCII art is an art born from limitations
Internet History
Good Internet
Good InternetFeb 6, 2026
Finding indie: Carving my path through online connections
Internet History
Good Internet
Good InternetFeb 6, 2026
Gopher burrows on
Internet HistoryGeminispace
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetAug 26, 2025
Over-Filtering The Internet
Despite many, many failed attempts to do so, people keep trying to filter the internet. Let’s look at the lens of the current moment through past attempts—including one led by, of all people, a librarian.
contentcensorship
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJun 25, 2025
The Career Calamity
Two of the most prominent legacy job application sites file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Together. Maybe they lost their edge.
jobscareer sites
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJan 12, 2024
What Was ISDN?
For decades, the telephone industry supported a new technology designed to make copper lines more useful to the average consumer. It’s great—if you’re a voice actor.
isdnphone history
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetApr 22, 2023
The Next Chapter
Online culture sure feels like it’s in a transition phase, doesn’t it? In an attempt to understand what we learned this week, let’s compare it to some prior internet-era shifts.
internet cultureinternet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetApr 13, 2022
Free As In Internet
In the '80s, a defining online phenomenon—being able to use the internet for free—came from (of all places) Cleveland. Here’s the story of the Free-Net.
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modemsinternet access
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetApr 6, 2022
The Central Question
What is the difference between centralization and decentralization, and what should you know? I was asked this question recently; here’s my attempt to answer.
social mediacentralization
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJul 23, 2021
The Dial-Up Volunteer Army
Considering the fact that many early online networks relied on volunteers to help build up their base—until one such network, AOL, got too big.
aolamerica online
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJan 22, 2021
Dr. Koop’s Digital Korner
How famed U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, at the age of 82, became an internet entrepreneur, and why his namesake website burned out, fast.
medicinehealth
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetNov 20, 2020
By Our Powers Combined …
How the webring became the grassroots tool of choice for sharing content online in the ‘90s. The concept was social media before media was social.
wikipediawebring
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetNov 6, 2020
The Internet's First Election
The web wasn't common in 1992, but presidential candidates notably took baby steps toward the internet that year—Ross Perot in a bigger way than most.
politicshistory
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetOct 13, 2020
No More Eternal Septembers
For decades, technical users looking down on the less knowledgeable have set the stage for a lot of bad online discourse. Can those users break the chain?
usenetinternet history
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetSep 25, 2020
FTP Fadeout
The beating heart of the early internet may have been FTP, or file transfer protocol. But after 50 years of mainstream use, its demise may be imminent.
file sharinginternet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetAug 11, 2020
News In Small Bytes
Newspapers said they wanted to protect the print product, but they were raring to go when it came to experimental online news approaches in the early '80s.
internetinternet access
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJul 17, 2020
We Were Promised Skynet
Satellite internet was once seen as a holy grail of connect-anywhere online access. It hasn’t worked yet, but the promise is closer than ever.
internetinternet access