💕 I Love Free Software Day 2026 💕

For this year’s I Love Free Software Day I am co-organising two special events, and I am super excited about them!

• 🧶 Knitting Our Internet at Snackbar Frieda, Rotterdam, on Friday Feb 13th at 18:00. All information here.
• 🛹 A reading of @kirschner’s Ada & Zangemann in English and in Dutch. After that, a conversation about Free Software maintenance as care work, together with @mayel from @Bonfire ❤️‍🔥 at the @internetarchiveeurope, Oudeschans 16, Amsterdam on Saturday Feb 14th at 14:00. All information here. Info about the super cool poster in the post below.

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #ILoveFS #ILoveFreeSoftware #ILoveFS #IloveFS26 #ournet #KnittingOurInternet #SnackbarFrieda #Rotterdam #Amsterdam #InternetArchive #InternetArchiveEurope #AZbook #Ada #AdaZangemann #reading #event #decentralizaion #InternetHistory #Internet

💕 I Love Free Software Day 2026 💕

For this year’s I Love Free Software Day I am co-organising two special events, and I am super excited about them!

• 🧶 Knitting Our Internet at Snackbar Frieda, Rotterdam, on Friday Feb 13th at 18:00. All information here.
• 🛹 A reading of @kirschner’s Ada & Zangemann in English and in Dutch. After that, a conversation about Free Software maintenance as care work, together with @mayel from @Bonfire ❤️‍🔥 at the @internetarchiveeurope, Oudeschans 16, Amsterdam on Saturday Feb 14th at 14:00. All information here. Info about the super cool poster in the post below.

#FreeSoftware #SoftwareFreedom #ILoveFS #ILoveFreeSoftware #ILoveFS #IloveFS26 #ournet #KnittingOurInternet #SnackbarFrieda #Rotterdam #Amsterdam #InternetArchive #InternetArchiveEurope #AZbook #Ada #AdaZangemann #reading #event #decentralizaion #InternetHistory #Internet

Next event: A critical history of being online
When: 29/01, 18:00
Where: Lauschangriff, Rigaer str. 103, Berlin

We would like to introduce the term “online life” to include everything we do online from maps, scrolling, guidance, news, dating, communications, and more. We would like to explore equivalence though history and media, examining technologies of money, language, affect, nature and knowing. What historical conditions did the spontaneous imaginary of communities and collectives come under the control of centralized and exploitative powers? When did self and social bonds explode into ever expanding alienating assemblages?

We'll be summarizing excerpts from Grundrisse (Marx) and Symbolic Economies (Goux) - no pre-reading required!

#berlin #tech #technology #internethistory #criticaltheory #online

Next event: A critical history of being online
When: 29/01, 18:00
Where: Lauschangriff, Rigaer str. 103, Berlin

We would like to introduce the term “online life” to include everything we do online from maps, scrolling, guidance, news, dating, communications, and more. We would like to explore equivalence though history and media, examining technologies of money, language, affect, nature and knowing. What historical conditions did the spontaneous imaginary of communities and collectives come under the control of centralized and exploitative powers? When did self and social bonds explode into ever expanding alienating assemblages?

We'll be summarizing excerpts from Grundrisse (Marx) and Symbolic Economies (Goux) - no pre-reading required!

#berlin #tech #technology #internethistory #criticaltheory #online

IMPORTANT: TODAY IS THE 12TH ANNIVERSARY OF "BEAUTIFUL CINNAMON ROLL TOO GOOD FOR THIS WORLD, TOO PURE"

#memes #internet #internetHistory

The final post of Cybercultural season 4 -> Online music and blogging were two key trends in the first decade of digital culture. In 2003, they combine in the form of MP3 blogs. Together with Pitchfork, they revolutionize music journalism. https://cybercultural.com/p/mp3-blogs-2003/ #InternetHistory #MP3Blogs

Remember "social software"? By 2003, the internet had weathered the worst of the dot-com crash and developers and entrepreneurs were beginning to come out of hibernation. While it would take another year for Silicon Valley to start inflating another bubble — this one would be named "Web 2.0" — there was a renewed sense of optimism. https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-2003/ #InternetHistory

⭐️⭐️⭐️ Snapshot of 2003 #socialsoftware, one of MacManus’s excellent year-by-year overviews of #internethistory also see his book.
https://mastodon.social/@ricmac/115769431493954388

Remember "social software"? By 2003, the internet had weathered the worst of the dot-com crash and developers and entrepreneurs were beginning to come out of hibernation. While it would take another year for Silicon Valley to start inflating another bubble — this one would be named "Web 2.0" — there was a renewed sense of optimism. https://cybercultural.com/p/internet-2003/ #InternetHistory

In the final part of my 5-part series on the history of blogging and RSS, we come to 2003: when RSS Readers like NetNewsWire and Bloglines burst onto the scene, and when I made my official entrance into the blogosphere with a Radio Userland blog called Read/WriteWeb. Also: Google buys Blogger, WordPress debuts, and 16-year old Aaron Swartz live-blogs a Dave Winer keynote. https://cybercultural.com/p/blogosphere-2003/ #InternetHistory #BloggingHistory