AOL
organization · 7 episodes · JSON
- Free-range, Organic, and Natural; The Original Promise … And we've never really paid those people or compensated them for their time in other ways (although interestingly I read a piece about AOL's early community …
- Just Because We Can Doesn't (Necessarily) Mean We Should: Mastodon and Social Networks Edition … If you're old enough, you'll recognize what I'm about to describe as something like early 90s era Compuserve or AOL or Prodigy, or in the …
- Standards; The Bird in the Room … I think you might need to go back to the AOL/Compuserve/Prestel/Minitel era for polity-scale (albeit tiny, tiny uptake) social-ish networks that at first …
- Irritated About Content Moderation; A Few Small Things … 90s AOL was "a way for gay people to meet", "but the internet is also a way for Nazis or jihadis to find each other", which, you know …
- Snow Crashing … I suppose the Street also makes sense in the context of 1993 -- AOL started in 1991 -- and the other online services at the time were much more top …
- Kill Hollywood; Not That Worried; Healthbook; Webring! … we're all hooked up to the cybernet with our Hayes Modems and AOL KEYWORD: POUND NEWSLETTERS and actually the site isn't hand-rolled HTML2 uploaded with …
- That Most Peculiar Thing, Cargo Cultism, That Californian Ideology … success and maybe leave Tim Berners Lee off to himself, but OH WAIT: AOL didn't create the ugly, beautiful monstrosity that we have right now (that has …