Follow Friday - wwwtxt

What did you do on the internet, in the olden days? @wwwtxt reminds us.


Even when it was new...

It seems to be sprouting up on every computer screen in the land. But just what is this thing called the Internet? ☯93NOV
— wwwtxt (1988–94) (@wwwtxt) April 23, 2013

...people were doing what they were always doing on the internet...

I have several floppies filled with nude GIFs of Madonna. I could UPS them for a small fee, e-mail me for details. ☯94DEC
— wwwtxt (1988–94) (@wwwtxt) April 10, 2013

...looking for human connection:

Is there anybody out there that can tell me if there is a conference specifically for new age music? ☯92DEC
— wwwtxt (1988–94) (@wwwtxt) April 18, 2013

The txt in wwwtxt is stylistic device - it's vaguely used to denote an account that describes things in words. (@textinstagram is a pretty good example of the form.) wwwtxt's tweets are human-currated, but unattributed.

I like the cyclical ones:

The massing of troops along the Korean DMZ was all over the shortwave radio last night. ☯93NOV
— wwwtxt (1988–94) (@wwwtxt) April 2, 2013

And the ones that saw a future which came true:

Apple is gearing all of their long-term plans around communications. ☯93SEP
— wwwtxt (1988–94) (@wwwtxt) April 19, 2013

And the ones that remind me that nothing ever changes:

What the hell are we doing up so late, and why are we still on our computers? ☯92NOV
— wwwtxt (1988–94) (@wwwtxt) April 19, 2013

There's also an excellent website, which explains the project and contains lots of images like the one I ganked above.

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