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

[Justin Hall]

Haha I just realized these were reply-all messages between Kevin & myself.

I replied to Kevin celebrating his new book on the advent of the
Minitel: Welcome to the Internet
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/minitel

And I was just writing Kevin back again to suggest that if it could be
valuable, I would be delighted to Skype in to his class to answer any
questions about the early web. I enjoy talking to students. That goes for
the rest of you!

Justin


Justin Hall
occasional episodes: http://justinhallshow.com
a personal documentary: http://overshare.links.net


On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 4:29 AM, Justin Hall <justin at links.net> wrote:

> Thanks for this reply Kevin - great to hear that you are encouraging your
> students to get a feel for the "old school" amidst all their new-school
> options. Hopefully this film can give them some sense of the feeling of the
> internet in that day - a special or secret place it was indeed.  Like BBSes
> as well, and Minitel, I imagine! Congrats on publishing your recent Minitel
> book!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Justin
>
>
> Justin Hall
> occasional episodes: http://justinhallshow.com
> a personal documentary: http://overshare.links.net
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 4:19 AM, Kevin Driscoll <kdriscoll at alum.mit.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> 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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