color of the internet

Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends (Links I Would Gchat You If We Were Friends)

What nail polish, house paint and Crayola crayons say about the shades of online existence

The enshittification of the web… in 2012

Anil Dash (Anil Dash)

The tech industry and its press have treated the rise of billion-scale social networks and ubiquitous smartphone apps as an unadulterated win for regular people, a triumph of usability and empowerment. They seldom talk about what we’ve lost along the way in this transition, and I find that younger folks may not even know how the web used to be.

Devastatia (NSFW website) shared this post that really made me smile. She found this 2012 post by Anil Dash called The Web We Lost. Although I had been blogging since middle school, I bought my first domain name in 2012 (actually, two of them: the personal one (Internet Archive didn’t keep the design, sad times)…

a slice of the early trans internet has been retrieved

Liked This Archive Offers an Incredible Window Into the Early Trans Internet by Samantha Riedel (Them.)

Almost lost to time, a CD-ROM saved this important piece of queer history.

early trans internet! boomers making transfem memes! a CD-ROM full of trans stuff! this was such a fascinating read!