Internet Artifacts: a year a slide

 

https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/

 It's a journey back in time to the beginnings of what has become a daily part of life for most of us today – the Internet.

Neal has unearthed a few gems that might make some laugh or bring tears to their eyes. Somehow, the web used to be a better, more colourful, and more free place than it is today. But let's be optimistic. Someday, someone will look back at the 2020s and say: Remember back in the good old days...

No, no they won't.  Why not? well, people in general today (Gen Z's) are users and mostly not creators.*

Well, that was a flaming generalistic statement to make & will probably get me 'cancelled' - however, it is a much deeper conversation starter that I'm not going to attempt to embrace in textual verbage here, instead enjoy the trip down memory lane:

https://neal.fun/internet-artifacts/

go buy the guy a coffee too.

*note the final date in the list... not much has happened really since 2007, has it?.... cough cough cough