The Verge presents a series of interesting articles about the pivotal tech year two decades ago that informs our present with a thoroughgoing survey of Napster and KaaZa and successor music sharing sites and the question of copyright and ownership of one’s media, the launch of the social web, Gmail and one’s permanent digital demesne, podcasts, migration to the cloud and more. The piece on the gap in photos from circa those years was particular resonant and relatable, like this grainy snapshot of the one time I visited Schloร Neuschwanstein in 2004 from among about forty or so bad pictures I could scrounge up. Whilst there have been innovations and choices in the interim, a lot of this architecture and underpinning infrastructure is locked in and legacy that we are living with today.
synchronoptica
one year ago: Big Foot on film (with synchronoptica)
seven years ago: tonal passkeys, the dangers of know thyself, French naming trends, a utopian city plus GIF mashups
eight years ago: the immunology of Tasmania Devils
nine years ago: story-telling and maths serving the same human need
thirteen years ago: coin collecting plus the occupy-movement
