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waxy.org that it looks like Suck.com is gone and may be gone forever. That would be a real shame because, as I have said before, a lot of what’s great about the web can be traced directly back to Suck.com.
Update: It looks like the site is back now – must have been some sort of glitch.
The Big Fish. Subhed: “Ten years later, the story of Suck.com, the first great website.” It is nice to see CTHEORY cited there. While Carl busy doing the CTHEORY website, I was working at the other end with the editors, Arthur and Marilouise Kroker, in my first net job.
digs into weblog prehistory: Bloggie Howser, MD.
the idea of “social software” became the hottest thing. Jack Schofield in the Guardian takes a look in an article called Social climbers. The best quote to my eye is the quote Schofield includes from Tom Coates of plasticbag.org:
But Tom Coates, from UpMyStreet. com, has reservations about the “current hysteria”. Three months before the conference, he posted a short essay on his blog, Plasticbag.org, saying: “There’s something about the abandonment of concepts of ‘online community’ and the complete rejection of familiar terms and paradigms like the message board that worries me. There seems to be a bizarre lack of history to the whole enterprise – a desire to claim a territory as unexplored when it’s patently not.”
about it for years, but I never imagined that it could still be seen: Doug Engelbart’s 1968 Demo is available on the net. “On December 9, 1968, Douglas C. Engelbart and the group of 17 researchers working with him in the Augmentation Research Center at Stanford Research Institute in Menlo Park, CA, presented a 90-minute live public demonstration of the online system, NLS, they had been working on since 1962.” This presentation was the first public demonstration of the mouse, and featured tons of other historical goodies as well. [via Boing Boing]
