the old internet as psyche

sufi

sufi

lala
sufi said:
make one for hereView attachment 16107an api is available it seems
Click to expand...
{ "user": { "about": "", "avatar_urls": { "o": "https://www.dissensus.com/data/avatars/o/16/16236.jpg?1680275187", "h": "https://www.dissensus.com/data/avatars/h/16/16236.jpg?1680275187", "l": "https://www.dissensus.com/data/avatars/l/16/16236.jpg?1680275187", "m": "https://www.dissensus.com/data/avatars/m/16/16236.jpg?1680275187", "s": "https://www.dissensus.com/data/avatars/s/16/16236.jpg?1680275187" }, "can_ban": false, "can_converse": false, "can_edit": false, "can_follow": false, "can_ignore": false, "can_post_profile": false, "can_view_profile": true, "can_view_profile_posts": true, "can_warn": false, "custom_fields": { "occupation": "", "skype": "", "facebook": "", "twitter": "" }, "is_staff": false, "last_activity": 1694560039, "location": "", "message_count": 9242, "profile_banner_urls": { "l": null, "m": null }, "question_solution_count": 0, "reaction_score": 4210, "register_date": 1626105528, "signature": "[SIZE=3][COLOR=rgb(124, 112, 107)]The views expressed by [URL='https://www.clinamenic.com/'][U]Clinamenic LLC[/U][/URL] are not necessarily the views of Clinamenic the pseudonymously natural person.[/COLOR][/SIZE]", "trophy_points": 0, "user_id": 16236, "user_title": true, "username": "Clinamenic", "view_url": "https://www.dissensus.com/members/16236/", "vote_score": 0, "website": "" }
 
sufi

sufi

lala
Like many artifacts of Christianity-tinged American capitalism, the digital infinite scroll whispers a promise of immortality signaled by its endlessly regenerating abundance. On the flip side, classical Chinese art does not deny death, and in fact often emphasizes it directly through Buddhist and Taoist philosophical themes, or indirectly through representations of the natural world and the seasonal cycle of life, death, and rebirth. Embedded in the finite form of the handscroll, there is also a modesty about human knowledge and perspective. The very fact that it’s impossible to see the entire painting in one glance forces viewers to accept how limited our understanding of the world really is, and suggests making peace with uncertainty.
 
Clinamenic

Clinamenic

Binary & Tweed
version said:
80s hacker stories are fun. Sounds like an absolute free-for-all. Bunch of teens turning phone networks inside out, warring with each other and getting raided by the secret service.

Operation Sundevil - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

Legion of Doom (hacker group) - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org

Great Hacker War - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
Click to expand...
Theres sure to be a bunch of this stuff coming out about crypto's origins, and how a bunch of grifters and north korean state hackers turned it into a warzone, with celebrities goading more and more retail investors into the space, thus increasing exit liquidity for the grifters, etc.

And grifts aside, the actual politics of DAOs and whatnot are often quite juicy, even in my own experience. Digital collectives undergoing schisms (or "forks"), actual algorithms being sanctioned by the US department of treasury, etc.
 
version

version

Well-known member
If the old internet was the psyche then Rotten.com was a representation of the grotesque Ballardian element. A web-based Atrocity Exhibition. Someone involved in MindVox built that too.
 
william_kent

william_kent

Well-known member
version said:
If the old internet was the psyche then Rotten.com was a representation of the grotesque Ballardian element. A web-based Atrocity Exhibition. Someone involved in Mindvox built that too.
Click to expand...

before rotten there was 'portal of evil'

I used to check that one daily, one day I broke down in tears of laughter when I saw the chairman of the board where I was working featured on the front page, and when the cleaners arrived I was all like "wait until you see this!" - oh, did we laugh

edit: but I was conflicted as, although I wanted to laugh, which I did, part of me really admired him for living out his fetish with seemingly no guilt, like he has a "thing" and he expresses it 100%, no shame on his part, even to the extent of making a website and documenting it with photos and stuff, and I have to admit I did admire his nerve at posting his extremely niche interest online - but that was made the old internet great!
 
version

version

Well-known member
william_kent said:
The Old Internet Shows Signs of Quietly Coming Back

I like that this article is old school html and looks like it is from the 90s, yet makes a good case for "old internet" being aligned with web 3.0 in that it was decentralised ( personal pages hosted on a computer at home, etc., )
Click to expand...

Some cool stuff on that site. Bunch of articles on eschewing the mainstream internet in favour of text-based forums, sites on other networks, platforms with higher barriers to entry. There's one called 'The Midnight Pub' that's a small group leaving messages for each other as though they're all frequenting the same bar.
 
william_kent

william_kent

Well-known member
version said:
Some cool stuff on that site. Bunch of articles on eschewing the mainstream internet in favour of text-based forums, sites on other networks, platforms with higher barriers to entry. There's one called 'The Midnight Pub' that's a small group leaving messages for each other as though they're all frequenting the same bar.
Click to expand...

sort of what I wish dissensus could be?
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top