I teach a creative coding class at SVA and every semester I love seeing new, weird corners of the internet that my students share - but even more so, celebrating the ones that they create for their projects ❤️ Can’t wait to share playhtml with them for inspo and tooling!
You're so right. There's more to the internet than social media apps. I am guilty for completely forgetting there is a whole world wide web of cool, interesting sites. I remember before I got stuck on just the three or four main popular apps that I used to explore individual websites and have a ball. I miss that. Thank you for reminding us and linking us to new places 🤎
i like what gather has done & its experiments but i think it doesnt feel like an internet third space because it is private so you cant just wander in
and agree with you on more URL to IRL but i think there’s also a place for more URL to URL in the future as well! these kinds of global, spontaneous, pseudoanonymous encounters also can be meaningful and not mutually exclusive to more in-person community!
Yes I agree and like your html playground thing-ey. I’ve been messing around with the fridge poetry stuff as inspiration for my daughters bday https://playhtml.fun/fridge?wall=kid_birthday
I don’t think the Internet is dead in the way the theory suggests. Bots haven’t completely taken over, and you’re probably right, they never will. But I think something worse may have happened.
The Internet has become a stage where people and companies perform the versions of themselves they want to be found. It’s not where you go to see what’s real anymore; it’s where you go to see what’s optimized.
The Web didn’t die—it just became self-aware enough to curate its reflection.
but it doesn’t have to be that way! it wasn’t always about performance so the fact that its all about optimization isnt a rule its just what has emerged w the dominant tech platforms
I teach a creative coding class at SVA and every semester I love seeing new, weird corners of the internet that my students share - but even more so, celebrating the ones that they create for their projects ❤️ Can’t wait to share playhtml with them for inspo and tooling!
fantastic!! so excited to see what they make -- happy to help however i can
You're so right. There's more to the internet than social media apps. I am guilty for completely forgetting there is a whole world wide web of cool, interesting sites. I remember before I got stuck on just the three or four main popular apps that I used to explore individual websites and have a ball. I miss that. Thank you for reminding us and linking us to new places 🤎
you're welcome!! let me know if you find any good ones :)
Amen!
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Something like gather.town comes to mind as a URL effort to build a commons in the internet
I think so that more URL to IRL pipelines are more where productive internet futures lie
i like what gather has done & its experiments but i think it doesnt feel like an internet third space because it is private so you cant just wander in
and agree with you on more URL to IRL but i think there’s also a place for more URL to URL in the future as well! these kinds of global, spontaneous, pseudoanonymous encounters also can be meaningful and not mutually exclusive to more in-person community!
Yes I agree and like your html playground thing-ey. I’ve been messing around with the fridge poetry stuff as inspiration for my daughters bday https://playhtml.fun/fridge?wall=kid_birthday
oh amazing i love that!!
🥺💗 that top left poem really hit me...
I don’t think the Internet is dead in the way the theory suggests. Bots haven’t completely taken over, and you’re probably right, they never will. But I think something worse may have happened.
The Internet has become a stage where people and companies perform the versions of themselves they want to be found. It’s not where you go to see what’s real anymore; it’s where you go to see what’s optimized.
The Web didn’t die—it just became self-aware enough to curate its reflection.
but it doesn’t have to be that way! it wasn’t always about performance so the fact that its all about optimization isnt a rule its just what has emerged w the dominant tech platforms