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“Dial-Up Internet, beloved connector of millions and herald of the digital age, passed away peacefully on September 30th, 2025, at the age of 30. She is survived by broadband, fiber optic, and countless memories of a simpler, stranger time when the internet was still a place you went to, not a thing that followed you everywhere.”

A poignant eulogy for the dial-up era by @visakanv on Pirate Wires:

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“Dial-Up Internet, beloved connector of millions and herald of the digital age, passed away peacefully on September 30th, 2025, at the age of 30. She is survived by broadband, fiber optic, and countless memories of a simpler, stranger time when the internet was still a place you went to, not a thing that followed you everywhere.”

A poignant eulogy for the dial-up era by @visakanv on Pirate Wires: https://www.piratewires.com/p/a-eulogy-for-dial-up

homepage update: switched to embedded fonts for better consistency across systems. some background js rewrites. added some more bloggers to my blogroll ^-^ read about it all here:

homepage update: switched to embedded fonts for better consistency across systems. some background js rewrites. added some more bloggers to my blogroll ^-^ read about it all here: https://ellesho.me/page/website/now/#tiny-awards-human

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https://paragraph.com/@afaik

This is crazy interesting.
https://youtu.be/zHgcrdv8zpM

Not sure if the end of the week ritual is up anymore but I wanted to share...
Artist is mek.txt on twitter

This is probably also quite relevant to building alternate social platforms... Slop might be short-term engaging, but they cannot measure how many people disengage because of it becoming the main mode...

so there is likely room for platforms that optimize for something else that fosters more reflection and less bait.

This is probably also quite relevant to building alternate social platforms... Slop might be short-term engaging, but they cannot measure how many people disengage because of it becoming the main mode...

so there is likely room for platforms that optimize for something else that fosters more reflection and less bait. 

https://youtu.be/ts7mnHhd8L0?si=uWY_wjQbTnOESz-9

I'm a big fan of internet communities. 

One of the first communities I deeply engaged with was a Halo custom games group called XForgery. It was similar to ForgeHub but smaller and more niche. 

There were a few guys in particular who really took me under their wing. Null Parameter  was the head mod and taught me a lot about managing online spaces and being fair. 

I think about those times a lot. The internet has changed since then, but those spaces are still around if you seek them out. 

The weirdos. The forgotten forums. The places where it's not only okay, but encouraged, to go really deep on a particular topic. 

And that is what makes the internet special to me. Not the big forums like X where everything is a status game or a competition to be the most pithy.

If you find a place online that resonates with you, cherish it. And be grateful to the people who keep it running. It takes real work.

I’m casting for the first time in a while just to tell you to go… umm… CAST your vote for @riotgoools in the Tiny Awards. Her homepage is unbeatable.

i like internet (◕‿◕)♡ riotgoools.com | veryinter.net/person | nf.td/elle | alt: @elle | very internet person channel: /vip

I’m casting for the first time in a while just to tell you to go… umm… CAST your vote for @riotgoools in the Tiny Awards. Her homepage is unbeatable. https://tinyawards.net/vote/

my homepage got nominated along with all these beautiful web works for this year's tiny awards! (,,⟡o⟡,,)

go check out all the amazing sites on the list and vote for your fav! <3 a bunch of these sites have appeared in this channel over this past year ^-^

my homepage got nominated along with all these beautiful web works for this year's tiny awards! (,,⟡o⟡,,)

go check out all the amazing sites on the list and vote for your fav! <3 a bunch of these sites have appeared in this channel over this past year ^-^

https://tinyawards.net/vote/

Awesome ascii artist 

https://adelfaure.net/

https://moronlab.blogspot.com/2010/01/urbit-functional-programming-from.html