I came to know the author's works and the concept of a "vernacular web" through Digital Folklore: the kind of folksy web that was cobbled together by amateurs or "barbarians" before the ambitions...
I came to know the author's works and the concept of a "vernacular web" through Digital Folklore: the kind of folksy web that was cobbled together by amateurs or "barbarians" before the ambitions of the semantic web, Web 2.0 and so on largely took over. I don't know why I thought of it again now, but I still think it's a relevant perspectice today, if nothing else because the article is old enough that we can evaluate it as a historical item in itself.
The article predates and predicts, perhaps inspires a lot of the small movements around brutalist web design, small web, the resurgence and reimagining of tilde communities etc, Geocities nostalgia etc. through its fresh perspective on what was then the user-created web of not-that-long-ago losing to professionalization and a kind of gentrification.
A you can imagine, the choice between ~tech, ~art and ~humanities wasn't easy for this one.
I came to know the author's works and the concept of a "vernacular web" through Digital Folklore: the kind of folksy web that was cobbled together by amateurs or "barbarians" before the ambitions of the semantic web, Web 2.0 and so on largely took over. I don't know why I thought of it again now, but I still think it's a relevant perspectice today, if nothing else because the article is old enough that we can evaluate it as a historical item in itself.
The article predates and predicts, perhaps inspires a lot of the small movements around brutalist web design, small web, the resurgence and reimagining of tilde communities etc, Geocities nostalgia etc. through its fresh perspective on what was then the user-created web of not-that-long-ago losing to professionalization and a kind of gentrification.
A you can imagine, the choice between ~tech, ~art and ~humanities wasn't easy for this one.