Cybercultural | Richard MacManus | Substack

What was it like using Flickr in early Web 2.0, in the age of digital cameras and before Instagram changed everything? 📸

Richard MacManus

Jan 26

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I interviewed one of the creators of David Bowie's 1998 web portal, BowieNet.

Richard MacManus

Jan 10

How emerging tech trends in the 2020s — especially the metaverse, aka 3D internet — will change the way we perceive the world and ourselves.

Richard MacManus

Jun 29, 2022

Looking at the state of the mobile internet, present and past 📲 Why? Partly because Facebook wants its metaverse to be like the mobile internet.

Richard MacManus

Feb 10, 2022

Thoughts on a pre-internet era. Plus notes on Wordle, Pono, Twitter's algo, Facebook headwinds, and more.

Richard MacManus

Feb 3, 2022

Web 2.0 developers continue to be skeptical of Web3 and crypto. But that doesn't make it any less fascinating to dive into 🤿

Richard MacManus

Jan 27, 2022

Twitter, Facebook and McDonalds go all-in on NFTs.

Richard MacManus

Jan 20, 2022

Experiment your way to the future — how I'm looking at NFTs, with thanks to the iPhone launch of 2007 and David Bowie.

Richard MacManus

Jan 13, 2022

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