present day, present time

[quotidians]

I'm not old enough to remember what the early web was like, but I've been fascinated by old consumer tech since I was about nine years old; sitting in class looking up IBM PCs and Macintosh on the shitty Chromebooks they lent us & not even attempting to stay on task. It appears nothing's changed in all these years, now I've got this dilettantish interest in web architecture. In fact I'm currently sat at my desk looking at old websites instead of studying for the math test worth 80% of my grade, the 10 minute oral exam, or the chemistry lab I've got due on Monday. That doesn't matter, because I've found something interesting.

By The Opte Project - Originally from the English Wikipedia; description page is/was here., CC BY 2.5, Link

Check this thing out! It's a representation of data routes, internet exchange points and the like, from 2005. Doesn't it look like a neuron or a diffuse nebula?

I also found this directory of collected poems attached to the old server of the University of New Mexico's physics department. No information on what it was for: at first I assumed it was for a course on 20th century American poetry, but that doesn't explain why it's attached to the physics department, and it seems too personalized anyway--some of the links lead to messages celebrating birthdays and anniversaries. Check it out for yourself here

Comments

[michaelboy]

With my age, I remember ARPANET and BBS's for information sharing and then the internet when it was basically all textual links to other text resources.