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Inputs and Outputs
Inputs and OutputsJul 28, 2026
Everyone Fled the Feed for the Group Chat.
We don't KNOW what comes next. But looking through the 'streams' we can see 'archipelagos' rising ...
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internet historymedia
The Emu Café Social
The Emu Café SocialJun 24, 2026
Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-23-26
It has been five days since the last edition of Pook-Emu Bee links. While I ordinarily publish links in the morning and it is now the evening, I submit some late links today to keep the backlog under control. [caption id="attachment_6072" align="aligncenter" width="811"] Today (June 23, 2026) was primary election day in New York City....
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Grandes Publicações da Diana
Grandes Publicações da DianaMar 25, 2026
Nossa Maravilhosa Macroesfera
O projeto da Roda dos Seis Reinos em silício e cobre.
social mediasocial engineering
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetAug 26, 2025
Over-Filtering The Internet
Despite many, many failed attempts to do so, people keep trying to filter the internet. Let’s look at the lens of the current moment through past attempts—including one led by, of all people, a librarian.
contentcensorship
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJun 25, 2025
The Career Calamity
Two of the most prominent legacy job application sites file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Together. Maybe they lost their edge.
jobscareer sites
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJan 12, 2024
What Was ISDN?
For decades, the telephone industry supported a new technology designed to make copper lines more useful to the average consumer. It’s great—if you’re a voice actor.
isdnphone history
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetApr 22, 2023
The Next Chapter
Online culture sure feels like it’s in a transition phase, doesn’t it? In an attempt to understand what we learned this week, let’s compare it to some prior internet-era shifts.
internet cultureinternet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetApr 13, 2022
Free As In Internet
In the '80s, a defining online phenomenon—being able to use the internet for free—came from (of all places) Cleveland. Here’s the story of the Free-Net.
modemsinternet access
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetApr 6, 2022
The Central Question
What is the difference between centralization and decentralization, and what should you know? I was asked this question recently; here’s my attempt to answer.
social mediacentralization
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJul 23, 2021
The Dial-Up Volunteer Army
Considering the fact that many early online networks relied on volunteers to help build up their base—until one such network, AOL, got too big.
aolamerica online
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJan 22, 2021
Dr. Koop’s Digital Korner
How famed U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, at the age of 82, became an internet entrepreneur, and why his namesake website burned out, fast.
medicinehealth
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetNov 20, 2020
By Our Powers Combined …
How the webring became the grassroots tool of choice for sharing content online in the ‘90s. The concept was social media before media was social.
wikipediawebring
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetNov 6, 2020
The Internet's First Election
The web wasn't common in 1992, but presidential candidates notably took baby steps toward the internet that year—Ross Perot in a bigger way than most.
politicshistory
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetOct 13, 2020
No More Eternal Septembers
For decades, technical users looking down on the less knowledgeable have set the stage for a lot of bad online discourse. Can those users break the chain?
usenetinternet history
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetSep 25, 2020
FTP Fadeout
The beating heart of the early internet may have been FTP, or file transfer protocol. But after 50 years of mainstream use, its demise may be imminent.
file sharinginternet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetAug 11, 2020
News In Small Bytes
Newspapers said they wanted to protect the print product, but they were raring to go when it came to experimental online news approaches in the early '80s.
internetinternet access
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJul 17, 2020
We Were Promised Skynet
Satellite internet was once seen as a holy grail of connect-anywhere online access. It hasn’t worked yet, but the promise is closer than ever.
internetinternet access
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetMay 8, 2020
The Internet’s Many Branches
The evolution of the top-level domain, a solution to a technical problem that has evolved into something with lots of cultural and marketing value.
domainsdomain names
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetApr 9, 2020
The Original Internet Bottleneck
Many early ISPs—particularly AOL—weren’t ready to offer unlimited internet access in the mid-’90s. That is, until a surprising disruptor appeared: AT&T.
aolamerica online
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetFeb 22, 2020
Thanks, Craig
Hitting its 25th anniversary this month, Craigslist remains a reminder that a more democratic version of the internet can still thrive.
craigslistinternet history
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetJan 2, 2020
The Inbox Pioneer
For more than 25 years, this newsletter author has been snarking wise about weird news. Here’s the tale of This is True, one of the first inbox success stories.
newslettersinternet history
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetNov 5, 2019
Internet Synthesis Protocol
How the professional-minded MIDI format, for an incredibly short but memorable period of time, became the primary way music was shared on the internet.
midimusic
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetSep 10, 2019
The Wires Barely Reach
It took a while for the internet to turn into a major global force, but it wasn't for lack of trying. (Peter Gabriel deserves at least some of the credit.)
internetinternet history
Tedium: The Dull Side of the Internet
Tedium: The Dull Side of the InternetSep 5, 2019
Jumping-Off Point
What the heck is a jumpstation, and why did it fade from internet nomenclature? It’s complicated, but the web’s first search engine is in there somewhere.
searchsearch engines