Journal: 13 September 2024

What brought me here

My aforementioned, Jason inspired excursion into the personal web took me to a number of interesting spots. Here are the highlights. Diagram Website: If everything here is as good as the handful of links I clicked on, then this is a spectacular web of links that would be worth exploring further. I ended up clicking on the Personal Web link, wherein, foreverliketh.is provides his introduction and guide to Exploring the Personal Web.

From here I learned from Ray brisray Thomas about the history of webrings and how they work, and checked out a number of entries from Ray's List of Webrings as well as the foreverliketh.is list of Collectives & Projects. There are too many sites to list here, but the experience was valuable and I recommend it. Checking out personal websites is a fun and enriching way to spend some time.

The other noteworthy sites I came across were Bring Back Blogging, which contains a wealth of blog sites that I am sure are worth checking out, Public Work by Cosmos, a site that answers the question "What would it be like if there was a thesaurus for pictures?" That needs some explaining. You are presented with a wall of images that you scroll through. If you click one, all the images change to visually similar images. You can repeat this and you end up going on a little adventure like when you go and click on synonyms in an online thesaurus. It's very cool, and all the images are copyright- free, and from MET, the New York Public Library, and other sources.

And finally, neal.fun's Internet Artifacts page. For me this was half history lesson, half walk down a memory lane of notable Internet milestones. We see the First Smiley, the first LOL, First Webcam, first blog, the 1994 clip from the TODAY Show where they're talking about the internet like they just found out about it, the first-ever White House homepage which is just the most basic thing you've ever seen, Homestar Runner, Wikipedia, Numa Numa, it's great. It's a fun little museum of internet delights, and well worth a visit.

And that's all I wanna cover in this entry. My final discovery from this odyssey should probably have an entry of her own. Please check out the next journal entry, where I will be discussing sadgrl.online.

Thanks for reading.

-Ty

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