Au cours des dernières années, la messagerie instantanée est devenue un outil incontournable. Avec la généralisation de la 4G, les applications telles que WhatsApp, Messenger, Signal ou encore Telegram ont, pour de nombreuses personnes, remplacé les SMS et les MMS pour envoyer des messages courts ou transportant des contenus multimédias. Par ailleurs, la messagerie instantanée est aussi désormais utilisée dans des contextes variés, professionnels, scolaires, universitaires ou associatifs, en offrant, par sa capacité à assurer des échanges synchrones, des possibilités d’interactions plus immédiates que l’e-mail.

Will Wright, the designer of SimCity, SimEarth, SimAnt, and other popular games from Maxis, gave a talk at Terry Winograd’s user interface class at Stanford, in 1996 (before the release of The Sims in 2000).

At the end of the talk, he demonstrated an early version of The Sims, called Dollhouse at the time. I attended the talk and took notes, which this article elaborates on.

Posthuman - Homecoming

There was a very nice video by Marques Brownlee last year on the moon picture. Everyone was like, ‘Is it fake? Is it not fake?’ There was a debate around what constitutes a real picture. And actually, there is no such thing as a real picture. As soon as you have sensors to capture something, you reproduce [what you’re seeing], and it doesn’t mean anything. There is no real picture. You can try to define a real picture by saying, ‘I took that picture’, but if you used AI to optimize the zoom, the autofocus, the scene – is it real? Or is it all filters? There is no real picture, full stop.

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Beaker supported the ability to "fork" p2p websites, so an indie social network called Rotonde briefly emerged on it where you created accounts by forking existing user sites. Simultaneously, the Beaker team created a Twitter clone on the tech called Fritter.

The semantic search engine of over 25,000 CD-ROMs from the Internet Archive is back:

http://DISCMASTER.TEXTFILES.COM is once again helping people discover long-lost computer history, forgotten images and music, and endless other buried treasures.

"Old’aVista, a guide to the old internet: launched in 2021, a search engine indexing early personal websites plus Yahoo directory listings from 1996 to 2003"

"Unless they have a very unique relationship with their investors, Ello will inevitably be pushed towards profitability and an exit, even if it compromises their current values. Sometimes, this push comes subtly in the form of advice and questions in emails, phone calls, and chats over coffee. Sometimes, as more direct pressure from the board. (FreshTracks’ Managing Director sits on their board.) Or, if things go bad, by replacing the founders." which is exactly what happened

People. It's been swell. This page has been on the net since 1996. Really. It's time to move on.

Remember when this was geocities?

Remember when "blink" was a cool thing to have on your webpage?

Remember when colleges/universities used Telnet as their web interface?

Remember when "IM" and "AOL" were so much cooler than Compuserve and Prodigy?

Remember mIRC, IRC chat and ICQ?

Remember when Altavista and Netscape ruled?

Remember life before Google?

Remember your first spam -- you know, getting a friend of a friend's FWD? Yeah. That and more. Buh Bye. 1

A command-line and offline-first smolnet browser/feed reader for Gemini, Gopher, Spartan and Web by Ploum.

The goal of Offpunk is to be able to synchronise your content once (a day, a week, a month) and then browse/organise it while staying disconnected.

P2P alternative to Discord etc

What protocol do peers connect with?

Members of a Quiet community (analogous to a Slack organization or a Discord "server") use libp2p/IPFS to connect to each other, over Tor, in an insular network for a specific community.

minimalistic rss aggregator

The once-prophesized future where cheap, AI-generated trash content floods out the hard work of real humans is already here, and is already taking over Facebook.