Building a slow web

The internet can feel like it's built for speed. You join a new service and you're presented with a feed. The name tells you all you need to know. The feed is the actor. You are the thing that is acted upon. You don't

Webweaving and blogging can change your life

I had used a computer since I was a kindergartner in the late 1990s, and I am also old enough to remember dial-up internet. However, before I was a teenager, I never considered the possibility of me creating anything on the web, let alone crafting my own space on the

Welcome to the web we lost

In December 1993, the New York Times published an article about the “limitless opportunity” of the early internet. It painted a picture of a digital utopia: clicking a mouse to access NASA weather footage, Clinton’s speeches, MTV’s digital music samplers, or the status of a coffee pot at

Falling in love with the internet (again)

I started accessing the internet (at least a version) when my primary school had the bright idea (and funding) of buying a set of 20 iPads for the school to use when they attended Information Communication Technology classes. Being ten-year-olds, when we weren’t being taught how to browse the

Finding a good community on Mastodon

I remember when all of my friends in high school were on AOL in the '90s, and I wanted to be on it too, so that I could chat to them and discover what the internet was. I was very lucky and eventually convinced my parents that we really