Why Not Come Over to MySpace ft. Joanne McNeil
Added 2023-05-16 08:50:23 +0000 UTCAuthor and broadcaster Joanne McNeil, host of the podcast Main Accounts and author of Lurking, joined Hussein and Phoebe to talk about the history of MySpace and how it helped to lay the ground for the digital present.
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At around 34 minutes in Phoebe discusses the technological development of the Internet, from text-based to multimedia content, and mentions the 'blogosphere', saying the idea of an interconnected series of blogs was retrospectively applied. While the term certainly is an anachronism, the notion isn't. I recently picked up a copy of the book "we've got blog" edited by John Rodzvilla. The book was published in 2002(!) but already it charts a history of blogging and documents the interconnected characteristics (technical and social) of blogs and bloggers. It even includes a three-part interview with Evan Williams, the inventor of Blogger, AKA Blogspot. The book is a really interesting artefact of late 90s-early 2000s internet culture; sometimes prescient, sometimes remarkably short-sighted. I recommend it to anyone interested in the early history of the social web.
Jacob
2023-05-16 10:56:19 +0000 UTC
