Subj : Re: BBS Population, DWeb, Re_AOL
To   : Ogg
From : boraxman
Date : Tue Oct 18 2022 13:35:09

 Og> ** On Thursday 06.10.22 - 05:40, Arelor wrote to Ogg:
 Og> 
 Og>  >> I've heard the same that FB membership is on a decline, but
 Og>  >> I haven't heard what users are replacing it with.
 Og>  >> Instagram seems like a total waste of time to me; it
 Og>  >> doesn't foster comms - it foster's "look at me and my
 Og>  >> stuff!"
 Og> 
 Og>  A> It loooks like IM from mobile platforms is the prefered
 Og>  A> substitute for facebook and other common social media,
 Og>  A> which sounds bonkers to me because they are not the same
 Og>  A> thing at all. However, that is how it seems to be :-)
 Og> 
 Og> A very interesting podcast about a week ago:
 Og> 
 Og> Oct. 9, 2022: 554: The promise and legacy of the early web
 Og> 

 Og> The web of the '90s and early '00s has inspired many nostalgic
 Og> projects, but it's not just the aesthetics that people miss.
 Og> This week, we take a look at the efforts to build a new, open,
 Og> decentralized web. Canadian programmer Mike Killingbeck talks
 Og> about building RE-AOL, a re-creation of the beloved early-web
 Og> platform. Writer, COMPOSTmag editor and senior organizer with
 Og> DWeb projects at the Internet Archive Mai Ishikawa Sutton, and
 Og> Alicia Urquidi DĦaz, metadata & data services librarian at
 Og> University of Toronto's Scholars Portal and volunteer archivist
 Og> at DWeb camp, discuss the ideas of the decentralized web.
 Og> 
 Og> 
 Og> https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-55-spark/clip/15941206- 
 Og> 554-the-promise-legacy-early-web
 Og> 
 Og> The first interview is with a fellow you has built RE-AOL - an  
 Og> interface that emulates the look and feel of the original AOL  
 Og> environment.
 Og> 
 Og> Other interviews are about DWeb.
 Og> 
 Og> Throughout all interviews, there were elements about the BBSes  
 Og> of retro days.
 Og> 

We didn't have AOL in Australia, so there isn't any nostalgia for it here.  If anything, I remember people lamenting AOL and its users.

There are still a fair number of 'old style' websites around.

Go to
https://wiby.me to search for some
or
https://wiby.me/surprise/
to get a random site.

Neocities is also pretty cool.

Gemini is also an attempt at bringing back simplicity, though I find Gemini a little too austere and small for my liking.

The key is open protocols, which are simple and can be implemented without the need of heavy technology.

--- Mystic BBS v1.12 A47 2021/12/24 (Linux/64)
 * Origin: Agency BBS | Dunedin, New Zealand | agency.bbs.nz (21:1/101)

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