The first website was created in August 1991 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN, a European nuclear research agency. Berners-Lee’s WorldWideWeb browser became publicly available the same month. By June 1992, there were ten websites. The World Wide Web began to enter everyday use in 1993, helping to grow the number of websites to 623 by the end of the year. In 1994, websites for the general public became available. By the end of 1994, the total number of websites was 2,278, including several notable websites and many precursors of today’s most popular services.
By June 1995, the number of websites had expanded significantly, with some 23,500 sites.
A blog (a truncation of “weblog“). is an informational website consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries also known as posts. Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page.
The term “weblog” was coined by Jorn Barger on December 17, 1997. The short form “blog” was coined by Peter Merholz, who jokingly broke the word weblog into the phrase we blog in the sidebar of his blog Peterme.com in May 1999.
Shortly thereafter, Evan Williams at Pyra Labs used “blog” as both a noun and verb (“to blog”, meaning “to edit one’s weblog or to post to one’s weblog”) and devised the term “blogger” in connection with Pyra Labs’ Blogger product, leading to the popularization of the terms.
Blogger is an American online content management system founded in 1999 that enables its users to write blogs with time-stamped entries. Pyra Labs developed it before being acquired by Google in 2003. Google hosts the blogs, which can be accessed through a subdomain of blogspot.com.
In the olden days, as a child, I had a free website on Geocities. It was super easy to use and to upload HTML files, images, etc.
Neocities. Create your own free website. Unlimited creativity, zero ads. Welcome back, web surfing.
You can get a shared hosting plan for a couple bucks a month.
I feel that having a large table of all content like a library is a great idea. Much better than a search engine.
the internet used to be an escape from reality, now it’s a part of reality
i miss the old internet so much, i feel like nothing makes sense anymore
yea, indivituality, creativity vs capitalism ,conditioning.
What actually killed the web was the greed of these blog sites trying to make a quick buck, and the centralization of the web, where 90% of every internet action takes place on social media such as Facebook, Youtube or Reddit. The ability to “Surf the web” is impossible these days. You are simply browsing a single website at this point.
For as much as I dislike the whole “recommendation algorythm” thing I can think of no alternative. Reddit like up/downvotes suck, and some imageboard style system would crumble in a second if faced with the 30 thousand hours of video uploaded to Youtube every day. Not to mention that it sometimes does wonders: I sure as hell didn’t know I wanted to watch and rewatch a one and a half hours long video about queues/lines, but Youtube surely did, and I enjoyed the heck outta it; a true timeless masterpiece.
Finally someone put put fitting words to “my problem with blogs”. I was very confused using wordpress for a long time because I expected it to work like a “homepage”, with an index or menu for sorting. To this day I think it’s a pretty stupid way to do websites… but here we are. A semi-random flow of information. Hard to search, hard to find anything.
What ruined internet are in order of appearance:
1 – blogs
2 – social media and internet 2.0 in general
3 – SEO
4 – AI ( just happening now )
AI enhances whatever it’s already wrong with the web in the wrong hands. You will see more AI-generated slop and smarter bots.
Forget monetisation, that is the root of all problems.
Wasn’t technology supposed to make the world a better place?