[WebCultures] free documentary about the early web: overshare.links.net

Kevin Driscoll kdriscoll at alum.mit.edu
Thu Jul 27 21:19:04 CEST 2017


Hey Justin,

Congrats on finishing the documentary! I've only had a chance to jump
around but it looks great. My internet history students have been reading
articles about the early web and making "old school" homepages (with
neocities) but I've found that it's hard for them to grasp how the
*feeling* of being online has changed over time-- particularly that the
internet/web could feel like a special or secret place set apart from the
rest of one's life. I'm curious to see how they respond to your story.

Thanks a bunch for sending it out to the list!

Kevin



On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Justin Hall <justin at links.net> wrote:

> Hello Web Cultures -
>
> "overshare: the links.net story" is a 40 minute documentary describing
> early days sharing personal content on the world wide web. The video and a
> wide-range of supporting materials and citations are available freely on
> http://overshare.links.net; I hope these materials might be of use to
> folks studying this era in human expression: roughly 1994-2015.
>
> I am the producer of this film; I was an overactive online link-maker in
> 1994 so it's primarily a first person story featuring many primary sources
> as well as reconstructions of user experiences of technology from that era. All
> the titles & credits are provided as HTML links, so anyone can browse my
> source materials. Plus the film has been released under a Creative
> Commons Attribution license, so anyone can remix this web history into
> their own history.
>
> I spent 18 months making the film, and about two hours promoting it. Now
> two hours and five minutes since I wrote this email. In August 2015 I wrote
> WebCultures about the film; I'm emailing you folks again because I figured
> I might see I can get this on another syllabus somehow.
>
> Please let me know if you have any feedback or experiences with these
> materials!
>
> Thanks for your attention.
>
> Warm regards from the future past,
>
> Justin
>
>
> Justin Hall
> occasional episodes: http://justinhallshow.com
> a personal documentary: http://overshare.links.net
>
>
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