Why is the internet like this?

Karen just wanted to know why Elizabeth reads Tumblr on Instagram, and it turned into a two-part episode on how the web evolved from a nerdy, interconnected blogosphere to the semi-siloed mishmash we have today. This is Part 1.

Show Notes

Here are links to the things we mentioned:

• Tom Eastman’s tweet that perfectly encapsulates what this episode is about
• How the blogosphere used to work
• This new rating thing YouTube seems to be trying out
• Video on Worlds Online, an early chat room with avatars
• What we mean by walled garden
• Anil Dash: The Web We Lost and Rebuilding the Web We Lost
• That Jurassic Park quote
• Harold Innis on the “bias of communications”
• GeoCities
• If you like hearing us talk about lost media, there’s more in Episode 21
• Episode 46 of Let’s Find Out: Marriage and Murder at the Mirama
• The deep web
• Internet Archive
• Wayback Machine
• Adobe Flash Player is dying
• The Ragtag Squad That Saved 38,000 Flash Games from Oblivion 
• BlueMaxima’s Flashpoint
• Heritage Posts on Tumblr
• Sarah Z on Onceler x Onceler, we’re so, so sorry.
• Fallen Titans
• Sarah Z on Dashcon
• Internet Historian and Whang!
• Down the Rabbit Hole

Stay tuned for Part 2, coming out Sept. 7-ish.

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What is That's a Thing?!?

A sometimes belated, already outdated guide to your teens, tweens and everything under 20. In each episode, Elizabeth, a teenager, explains a thing to Karen, her mother. And Karen tells Elizabeth how that thing relates to something she knows. Maybe.