Cybercultural | Richard MacManus | Substack

I take a nostalgic trip back to 2007-11, when Tumblr, Soup.io, FriendFeed and other microblogging apps roamed the web. Also: are activity streams poised to make a comeback on the fediverse? 🍲

Richard MacManus

Mar 22

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I look back on a forgotten age in social media, when you checked-in to a place 100 times and took photos of your huevos rancheros 🍳 🫘 ☕

Richard MacManus

Feb 21

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

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

Richard MacManus

Jan 10

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

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