
Tech Leader Pro
John Collins
Categories: Technology
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We lost the spirit of Web 1.0, can we ever revive that via a Neo Web 1.0 renaissance?
Notes:
- I am back!
- It may be sentimentality, but I really miss the old days of the internet.
- I remember using it for the first time in a public library on a 56k modem, on a PC that you had to book in advance.
- There was an excitement about it, it was new and unexplored.
- Bandwidth was such an issue, online video was practically non-existent, while images loading in via progressive scans, initially as low-resolution images that gradually became clear over several seconds.
- Social media did not exist.
- Search engines had no ads.
- There were no pop-ups for accepting cookies or signing up to newsletters.
- Instead, we had personal home pages with page counters, blink tags, and scrolling marquees, and web rings...
- E-commerce did not exist, I can clearly remember when people we paranoid about sharing their credit card details online with anyone for fear of being ripped off.
- They had to be educated to "look out for the lock" for SSL-enabled websites before sharing their credit card details.
- To think there is a whole generation of Zoomers who never experienced the naive joy and freedom of Web 1.0.
- Do we need a Neo Web 1.0, a return to the old?
- There was an attempt to do something similar a few years, back, when Geocities relaunched as Neocities: "Neocities is a social network of 685,600 web sites that are bringing back the lost individual creativity of the web." - https://neocities.org/
- I love projects like Neocities, and launched Greppr for similar reasons.
- As a technologist, I will never advocate for a return to the past, but in the shift to the commercial platform dominated internet we have today, we have really lost that free spirit of discovery and hacker ethos.
- An internet of builders and hackers is far more interesting that an internet of consumers.
- We have arrived at the wrong destination.
- What I am working on this week:
- Greppr.org - Now at 2.8m web pages indexed.
- Media I am enjoying this week:
- For All Mankind.
- Cyberpunk 2077.
Notes and subscription links are here: https://techleader.pro/a/621-Tech-Leader-Pro-podcast-2023-week-47,-Neo-Web-1.0
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50 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 47, Neo Web 1.0 Monday, 27 Novem
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49 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 42, delete your code Saturday, 21 Oct
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48 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 41, staying calm under pressure Sunday, 15 Octob
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47 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 40, social media is a brutal mirror Monday, 9 Octobe
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46 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 39, the curse of knowledge Saturday, 30 Sep
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45 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 38, analysis of a bot attack on greppr Monday, 25 Septe
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44 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 37, engineers doing sales Friday, 15 Septe
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43 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 36, content promotion on X versus Hacker News Friday, 8 Septem
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42 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 35, gaming group dynamics Friday, 1 Septem
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41 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 34, online confirmation bias Friday, 25 Augus
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40 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 33, The subtle art of power plays Friday, 18 Augus
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39 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 32, my thoughts on the Tesla battery range lawsuit Friday, 11 Augus
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38 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 23, Turning up at meetings Tuesday, 1 Augus
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37 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 30, drink from a glass not a fire hose Friday, 28 July
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36 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 29, never accept statistics on face value Friday, 21 July
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35 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 28, the fediverse should be built on a blockchain Saturday, 15 Jul
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34 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 27, the Twitter rate limit fiasco Friday, 7 July 2
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33 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 26, why the US beats the EU on tech innovation Friday, 30 June
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32 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 25, leadership and reputational harm Friday, 23 June
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31 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 24, active versus passive online discovery Friday, 16 June
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30 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 23, when did the smart phone become our master key? Friday, 9 June 2
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29 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 22, greppr has launched Friday, 2 June 2
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28 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 21, removing the Twitter app from my phone Friday, 26 May 2
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27 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 20, the Irish Times AI hoax Friday, 19 May 2
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25 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 19, web search as ten blue links Friday, 12 May 2
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24 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 18, a better Twitter Friday, 5 May 20
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23 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 17, the doom is getting doomier Friday, 28 Apr 2
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22 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 2023 week 16, new weekly format Friday, 21 Apr 2
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21 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 21, How our relationship with the office has changed Tuesday, 11 Apr
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20 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 20, Project estimates are unreliable Friday, 27 Jan 2
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19 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 19, Consolidating a dot zero release Wednesday, 14 De
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18 - Tech Leader Pro podcast 18, Acknowledgement versus agreement Friday, 21 Oct 2
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17 - Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 17: Hero-driven development Saturday, 01 Oct
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16 - Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 16: Deciding who you work for Thursday, 18 Aug
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14 - Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 14: Letting go of bad ideas Tuesday, 10 May
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13 - Tech Leader Pro podcast episode 13: Leaders should create gaps Thursday, 07 Apr
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