The Question of AI and a Web 1.0 Blog Culture Revival
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A personal blog post asks: Is AI bringing back a Web 1.0-style blog culture? Using their own page, selected for the Internet Archive's 2009 GeoCities special collection, as a starting point, the author reviews the evolution from Web 1.0 static web pages to Web 2.0 platformization. The article does not reach a definitive conclusion; it merely poses this question for discussion.
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The author, born in 1998, traces the shift from static Web 1.0 sites like the 1996 Space Jam page through Web 2.0 platform consolidation, and describes largely leaving social media at the turn of the decade. After noticing a "Mentions around the web" section on a blog post, they discovered IndieWeb and WebMentions, added support for them to their own site, and crawled mention graphs to map the connections between blogs.
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