Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently • The Register https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/22/google_chrome_browser_ad_content_block_change/

Remembering Geocities, the Suburbia of the Early Web - CityLab https://www.citylab.com/life/2019/01/geocities-archive-netscape-browser-first-web-suburbs-aol/580285/

Nice to see TBL admits DNS is centralized; I’m still skeptical that SOLID can address aspects of web tech that encourage recentralization. https://ruben.verborgh.org/articles/redecentralizing-the-web/

The Ethics of Web Performance - TimKadlec.com https://timkadlec.com/remembers/2019-01-09-the-ethics-of-performance/

The post-Web is single tenant “ Aral Balkan https://ar.al/2019/01/09/the-post-web-is-single-tenant/

So, I’m working on a fediverse client based on https://web.archive.org/web/20190101185657/https://jfm.carcosa.net/blog/computing/usenet/ ; it’s here: https://github.com/enkiv2/misc/blob/master/fern . It is currently read-only, but it has read history.

GitHub - orbitdb/orbit-db: Peer-to-Peer Databases for the Decentralized Web https://github.com/orbitdb/orbit-db

Recommended whole-web text replacement: s/man/mom/

I Used The Web For A Day With JavaScript Turned Off “ Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/05/using-the-web-with-javascript-turned-off/

I Used The Web For A Day With Just A Keyboard “ Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/07/web-with-just-a-keyboard/

I Used The Web For A Day Using A Screen Reader “ Smashing Magazine https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2018/12/voiceover-screen-reader-web-apps/

GitHub - trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge: A collection of awesome lists, manuals, blogs, hacks, one-liners, cli/web tools and more. Especially for System and Network Administrators, DevOps, Pentesters or Security… https://github.com/trimstray/the-book-of-secret-knowledge

Google isn’t the company that we should have handed the Web over to | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/12/the-web-now-belongs-to-google-and-that-should-worry-us-all/

Sprite https://web.archive.org/web/20040402163929/http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/projects/sprite/sprite.html

Sprite Reterospective https://web.archive.org/web/20040405225311/http://www.cs.berkeley.edu:80/projects/sprite/retrospective.html

While we Blink, we loose the Web https://andregarzia.com/2018/12/while-we-blink-we-loose-the-web.html

The unbelievable tale of a fake hitman, a kill list, a darknet vigilante… and a murder | WIRED UK https://www.wired.co.uk/article/kill-list-dark-web-hitmen

1. don’t confuse ‘the internet’ with ‘the web’; 2) don’t confuse ‘the web’ with ‘social media’; 3) don’t confuse ‘social media’ with ‘corporate social media’

From Satori to Silicon Valley https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/satori/machines.html

Archiving web sites [LWN.net] https://lwn.net/Articles/766374/

From Satori to Silicon Valley https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/satori/taste.html

From Satori to Silicon Valley https://web.stanford.edu/dept/SUL/sites/mac/primary/docs/satori/organic.html

Pet peeve: when people nitpick rhetorical flourishes in my examples while completely ignoring the main point. Hint: If I bring up the web or the macintosh, that doesn’t mean my essay is specifically about the web or the macintosh.

webreview.com - Why Rebol Matters https://web.archive.org/web/19991012205739/http://webreview.com:80/pub/1999/08/27/feature/index2.html

Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure. - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI

The Web That Wasn’t - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72nfrhXroo8

rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018/making-dids-invisible-with-petnames.md at petnames · cwebber/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018 · GitHub https://github.com/cwebber/rebooting-the-web-of-trust-spring2018/blob/petnames/draft-documents/making-dids-invisible-with-petnames.md

@71m@timmorgan.org: why web when it is local? I use sxiv for local browsing and llgal to generate a static gallery from a directory: https://github.com/bgoglin/llgal. If you want something more CGI-ish, you could build it with a few lines of perl: https://metacpan.org/pod/CGI::Application::PhotoGallery

Toward a Critical Technical Practice https://web.archive.org/web/20051221192206/http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/critical.html

Concurrent and Distributed Programming in Web Prolog https://bluishcoder.co.nz/2018/09/24/concurrent-and-distributed-programming-in-web-prolog.html

Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web? https://twobithistory.org/2018/05/27/semantic-web.html

Peer-to https://peer-to.peer-to-peer-web.com/

GitHub - dominictarr/your-web-app-is-bloated: measuring memory usage of popular webapps https://github.com/dominictarr/your-web-app-is-bloated

QOTD: ‘The web is broken because it is a half-hearted, incomplete implementation of Xanadu.’ (Source: https://dev.to/tux0r/comment/586n)

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net My take on this is… let’s let people ruin the web. Let centralized services control everything. But let us tech savvy people stick together and provide an alternative space for us. A space that’s welcoming to those that want to join and learn. Maybe people will come over when their online actions show real life consequences. There are statistics about decreasing social media use in Generation Z. Maybe they want to learn from us Internet-Dinosaurs :)

Brandon Invergo - Anti-Web-Design Manifesto http://brandon.invergo.net/news/2013-03-10-Anti-web-design-Manifesto.html

Vision for a new, truly decentralized Web | Empowering People. Uniting Communities. https://qbix.com/blog/2018/08/28/vision-for-a-new-truly-decentralized-web/

“the Web never adopted fundamental findings from hypertext widely” YEAHH YOU TELL ‘EM Atzenback et al. (2017) (pp35-36)!

Decentralising the web: Maintaining the momentum https://www.computing.co.uk/ctg/news/3036546/decentralising-the-web-maintaining-the-momentum

Freeing the Web from the Browser | reinterpretcast.com https://www.reinterpretcast.com/open-hypermedia

The Bullshit Web — Pixel Envy https://pxlnv.com/blog/bullshit-web/

Imagine This: A Web Without Servers - Tara Vancil - JSConf EU 2018 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ_WvfF3FN8

» minimal web mnmlist http://mnmlist.com/w/

Brutalist Web Design https://brutalist-web.design/

Stacking the Bricks: How the Blog Broke the Web https://stackingthebricks.com/how-blogs-broke-the-web/

301 Moved Permanently https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/07/the-man-who-created-the-world-wide-web-has-some-regrets/

The Shuffle interface is so strange. Everything is HUGE and there’s not much of it. It’s web 2.0 af. Was this a VN trend I missed?

Re: generalism vs specialism & polymathy – BREADTH IS DEPTH because knowledge is a web, not a tree. It only looks like a tree if you SPECIALIZE.

Reading about Web Prolog & it reminds me a lot of the work I did on Mycroft. I wonder: how will routing work here? If fully-qualified predicates have an explicit hostname component, Web Prolog can go fuk.

Writing long, overly complex, & logically flawed apologia of bad mainstream ideas in order to recast them as revolutionary is a growth industry. (See the ‘intellectual dark web’, whose major unifying trait is boringly normie positions.) Why not reach for a surreal or absurd take?