{"id":690,"date":"2015-04-15T17:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T22:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=690"},"modified":"2015-04-15T17:35:00","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T22:35:00","slug":"internet-culture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/04\/15\/internet-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is traced to the old <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niemanlab.org\/2015\/04\/tracing-the-origins-of-modern-internet-culture-to-the-bbs-world\/\" target=\"_blank\">BBS world<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While the core technology behind today\u2019s Internet was developed through the U.S. government-backed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kevindriscoll\">ARPANET<\/a>, the things that define the culture of today\u2019s Internet \u2014 sharing information, connecting with new people, playing games, even shopping \u2014 developed more through the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bulletin_board_system\">bulletin board systems<\/a> that proliferated before the advent of the World Wide Web. As Driscoll, a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research, argued in <a href=\"http:\/\/cmsw.mit.edu\/podcast-kevin-driscoll-re-calling-the-modem-world-the-dial-up-history-of-social-media\/\">a talk<\/a> he gave at MIT last week:<\/p>\n<p>We can think of this as a parallel world. There are parallel tracks here where the ARPANET is developing really robust ways of doing Internet working over a long distance with various types of media. Sometimes it goes over the wires, sometimes it goes over the airwaves, sometimes it goes through a satellite.<\/p>\n<p>At the same time, there are hobbyists who are using just the telephone network that had been in place for decades \u2014 but they\u2019re developing all this social technology on top of it. Figuring out how you should moderate the system, administer it. Who\u2019s in charge? Who makes the rules? What are good rules? What are bad rules? How do you kick people off if they\u2019re being a jerk? How do you get cool people to join you? All of this is happening on this \u201cpeople\u2019s Internet\u201d layer.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As a BBS operator from the early 1980s to 2002, it seems a little odd to give this much credit to BBSes while not mentioning <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Usenet\" target=\"_blank\">USENET<\/a> and, perhaps, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/PLATO_%28computer_system%29#Online_community\" target=\"_blank\">PLATO<\/a>.\u00a0 Not that we didn&#8217;t talk, discuss, fight, flirt, marry, divorce, game, and keep the <del>ruggies<\/del> trolls at bay&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>(h\/t Naomi Rockler-Gladen)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; is traced to the old BBS world: While the core technology behind today\u2019s Internet was developed through the U.S. government-backed ARPANET, the things that define the culture of today\u2019s Internet \u2014 sharing information, connecting with new people, playing games, even shopping \u2014 developed more through the bulletin board systems \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2015\/04\/15\/internet-culture\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=690"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":691,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/690\/revisions\/691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}