cyberculture

<p>In his latest Cybercultural entry, <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ricmac" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>ricmac</span></a></span> looks at the state of the internet in 1996: portals, e-commerce, web design trends, online music, and the emergence of web apps.</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1996/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/internet-1996/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/internet-1</span><span class="invisible">996/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/techhistory/" rel="tag">#TechHistory</a></p>

<p>&quot;We’re joined this evening on the Internet. What is an Internet? They’re getting a simul-ah…broadcast of the show tonight. Hello Internet people!&quot;</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/video-streaming-1997/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/video-streaming-1997/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/video-stre</span><span class="invisible">aming-1997/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a></p>

<p>&quot;Typically, a weblog is a small web site, usually maintained by one person that is updated on a regular basis and has a high concentration of repeat visitors. Weblogs often are highly focused around a singular subject, an underlying theme or unifying concept.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-1999/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-1999/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-</span><span class="invisible">1999/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/blogs/" rel="tag">#blogs</a> <a href="/tags/blogging/" rel="tag">#blogging</a> <a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a></p>

<p>&quot;By the end of 2002, blogging had blossomed into a thriving ecosystem of colourful personal sites that interconnected to each other via RSS, trackback and blogrolls.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-2002/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-2002/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/blogs-rss-</span><span class="invisible">2002/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/blogging/" rel="tag">#blogging</a> <a href="/tags/blogs/" rel="tag">#blogs</a> <a href="/tags/rss/" rel="tag">#RSS</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a></p>

<p>Remember those &quot;best experienced with [browser name]&quot; badges?</p><p>&quot;MTV&#x27;s revamped World Wide Web site for MTV contains a heavy amount of original music content and a unique Web browser design. [...] Some of the site&#x27;s best content, including a grossly appealing game with Beavis &amp; Butt-head, is designed exclusively for Microsoft&#x27;s Internet Explorer browser.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/browser-war-1990s/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/browser-war-1990s/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/browser-wa</span><span class="invisible">r-1990s/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/internethistory/" rel="tag">#InternetHistory</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a></p>

<p>&quot;I&#x27;m in the process of setting up a WWW server that will blow the socks off your Mosaic viewer!&quot;</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/1993-mtv-internet/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/1993-mtv-internet/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/1993-mtv-i</span><span class="invisible">nternet/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a></p>

<p>&quot;Of course, what [the British-American academic and author Alice Mary Hilton] defined as cyberculture — an automated society where mankind is freed from drudgery by computers — is very different to what it ended up meaning in the 90s.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/cyberculture-alice-mary-hilton/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/cyberculture-alice-mary-hilton/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/cybercultu</span><span class="invisible">re-alice-mary-hilton/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a></p>

<p>&quot;At the beginning of 1995, the internet was still largely the domain of academic-minded geeks and Silicon Valley hippies. But the culture at large was increasingly taking notice of cyberspace.</p><p>Throughout 1995, millions more people went online and thousands of companies bought “dot com” domain names.</p><p>The web was now open for business.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1995/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/internet-1995/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/internet-1</span><span class="invisible">995/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/earlyweb/" rel="tag">#EarlyWeb</a> <a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a></p>

<p>In a January 1999 interview with The Guardian, Bowie tried to explain his approach to the internet as an artist.</p><p>&quot;Interaction on the Web is a little like a mirror, like communicating with a manifestation of yourself. Because it is so chaotic, so decentralised, I find that using the Web becomes like communicating with a hardware version of me. It&#x27;s not exactly a doppelgänger, but an alternative version of myself.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/online-identity-bowieworld-1999/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/online-identity-bowieworld-1999/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/online-ide</span><span class="invisible">ntity-bowieworld-1999/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a> <a href="/tags/onlineidentity/" rel="tag">#OnlineIdentity</a> <a href="/tags/onlinecommunities/" rel="tag">#OnlineCommunities</a></p>

<p>&quot;Interaction on the Web is a little like a mirror, like communicating with a manifestation of yourself. Because it is so chaotic, so decentralised, I find that using the Web becomes like communicating with a hardware version of me. It’s not exactly a doppelgänger, but an alternative version of myself.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-1999/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/internet-1999/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/internet-1</span><span class="invisible">999/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a></p>

<p>&quot;By the end of 2000, the web had settled into a strange dual state: the financial euphoria of the dot-com boom was gone, yet the culture of the web had never felt more alive.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-2000/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/internet-2000/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/internet-2</span><span class="invisible">000/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a></p>

<p>&quot;In the beginning, the Web was simple. When I first encountered it in early 1993 (working for O&#x27;Reilly&#x27;s Global Network Navigator[...]), there was only one browser for viewing web pages and it ran exclusively on the Unix platform. There were about a dozen tags that made any difference. Designing a web page was a relatively simple task.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/1993-global-network-navigator/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/1993-global-network-navigator/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/1993-globa</span><span class="invisible">l-network-navigator/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/essay/" rel="tag">#essay</a></p>

<p>&quot;By the end of 1994, there were roughly 10,000 websites on the web. It was still early days and most of the websites were quite basic in structure.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/1994-web-design/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/1994-web-design/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/1994-web-d</span><span class="invisible">esign/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/history/" rel="tag">#history</a> <a href="/tags/technology/" rel="tag">#technology</a> <a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a></p>

<p>&quot;That&#x27;s my belief. It just takes a bit of guidance and access to understandable knowledge. That word &#x27;understandable,&#x27; it&#x27;s important. You don&#x27;t introduce people to website building by using geek-speak. You have to talk human to human...&quot;</p><p><a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/1994-cool-site-of-the-day/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="cybercultural.com/p/1994-cool-site-of-the-day/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/1994-cool-</span><span class="invisible">site-of-the-day/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/cyberculture/" rel="tag">#cyberculture</a></p>