This is a story I've never told before — in 2008, ReadWriteWeb nearly got acquired! The next several posts tell the tale... In early 2008, I find myself with two media company wooers: CMP and Ziff Davis Enterprise. The deals look good, but the earn-out targets concern me. https://cybercultural.com/p/027-acquisition-talks-rww-2008/#InternetHistory
💡 La Nostra Rete è un #laboratorio per scoprire e ripensare il #Web nella sua dimensione profondamente sociale.
Attraverso esperimenti e racconti, intraprenderemo un viaggio nella storia di #Internet, immaginando insieme un futuro digitale partecipato e orizzontale, ovviamente partendo dal #Fediverso! 🚀
Sarei felice se mi aiutaste a far girare (siamo un po’ in ritardo, belin)!
Hands up who bought this book back in the 90s? (I did, and it still lives on my #InternetHistory bookshelf!) David Siegel’s Creating Killer Web Sites was released in 1996 before CSS or Flash were finalized. So it advocated for “hacks” to HTML, such as table-based layouts, in order to make websites more visually appealing. The second edition in 1997 replaced the chapter "A PDF Primer" with a new chapter: "A CSS Primer" :) (via https://webdevelopmenthistory.com/1996-flash-css-web-design/)
Sharing a little bit of personal #InternetHistory … for a period of time, #LiveJournal (or simply “LJ”) was one of the very thriving places to be on the #Internet . And for about four years, it was my home on the Web. I’m grateful for that time… even if I moved on many years ago!
🌐 Protoweb – Bringing Back The Information Super Highway
"Protoweb is a free public service that hosts historical Internet websites to demonstrate the Internet in it’s early days. It is also a community driven project consisting of volunteers with the goal of rebuilding and restoring early Internet services to offer a seamless browsing experience."
Timeline of the development of online communications, beginning in the 60s (in glorious 1999-era Web 1.0 design aesthetic). Engrossing, but perhaps only for those whose careers spanned this time.
「 Its architects were a dedicated group of computer industry representatives in the United Kingdom, France, and the United States who envisioned a complete, open, and multilayered system that would allow users all over the world to exchange data easily and thereby unleash new possibilities for collaboration and commerce 」