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This is a rare misread by @Om. The new human-made Internet is informed by the old personal web, but it is *NOT* about throwback nostalgia. It’s grounded directly in the cultural, social, economic & political concerns of a generation who’ve seen the cost of current tech platforms.
Om’s piece (amusingly, this critique of Internet nostalgia is… on a personal blog & email newsletter) is grounded in @nitashatiku’s excellent look at the resurgent human-made web: wired.com/story/soothing…
But I say the creative web is resurgent because *we’ve seen it*. This piece is from a year ago; there are… a _lot_ more than a million projects created on @Glitch now. And we’re just one community. link.medium.com/ZHmHMQdoDU
And these apps & sites aren’t being made by old dudes like me, talking about the good old days of LiveJournal. They’re made by young creators (or older people who didn’t make the web back then) who are discovering for the first time that the web is a thing we *create*, together.
Solange knows the old human internet needs to influence contemporary culture.
Junglepussy knows the lesson we need to learn from the web’s history, while being an artist who is vital & culturally relevant right now.
It’s no coincidence that the same voices pushed out of being internet creators when the current era of the social started (oh hey, no surprise, these are Black women) are those at the vanguard of reinventing the creative web for contemporary culture.
Dammit, Matthew, don’t make me come over there.
Alright, thanks to @captbaritone, here's a web reproduction of Winamp you can use: pharrell-winamp.glitch.me
