<div dir="ltr">Haha I just realized these were reply-all messages between Kevin & myself.<div><br></div><div>I replied to Kevin celebrating his new book on the advent of the Minitel: Welcome to the Internet</div><div><a href="https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/minitel">https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/minitel</a><br></div><div><br></div><div>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!</div><div><br></div><div>Justin</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br>Justin Hall</div><div>occasional episodes: <a href="http://justinhallshow.com" target="_blank">http://justinhallshow.com</a></div><div>a personal documentary: <a href="http://overshare.links.net" target="_blank">http://overshare.links.net</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 4:29 AM, Justin Hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justin@links.net" target="_blank">justin@links.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">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!<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Justin</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><br clear="all"><div><div class="m_-1569193407991168546gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><br>Justin Hall</div><div>occasional episodes: <a href="http://justinhallshow.com" target="_blank">http://justinhallshow.com</a></div><div>a personal documentary: <a href="http://overshare.links.net" target="_blank">http://overshare.links.net</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br></span><div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 28, 2017 at 4:19 AM, Kevin Driscoll <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kdriscoll@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank">kdriscoll@alum.mit.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>Hey Justin,<br><br></div>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. <br><br>Thanks a bunch for sending it out to the list!<br><br>Kevin<br></div><br><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="m_-1569193407991168546h5">On Thu, Jul 27, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Justin Hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:justin@links.net" target="_blank">justin@links.net</a>></span> wrote:<br></div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div class="m_-1569193407991168546h5"><div dir="ltr">Hello Web Cultures -<div><br></div><div>"overshare: the <a href="http://links.net" target="_blank">links.net</a> 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 <a href="http://overshare.links.net/" target="_blank">http://overshare.links.net</a>; I hope these materials might be of use to folks studying this era in human expression: roughly 1994-2015.</div><div><br></div><div>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. <span style="font-size:12.8px">All the titles & credits </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">are provided as HTML links, so anyone can browse my source materials. </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">Plus the film has been released under a Creative Commons Attribution </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">license, so anyone can remix this web history into their own history.</span></div><div><br></div><div>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.</div><div><br></div><div>Please let me know if you have any feedback or experiences with these materials!</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for your attention.</div><div><br></div><div>Warm regards from the future past,</div><div><br></div><div>Justin</div><span class="m_-1569193407991168546m_733920970609474578HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div><div class="m_-1569193407991168546m_733920970609474578m_-3337707048774955079gmail-m_4025650507563035581gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div>Justin Hall</div><div>occasional episodes: <a href="http://justinhallshow.com" target="_blank">http://justinhallshow.com</a></div><div>a personal documentary: <a href="http://overshare.links.net" target="_blank">http://overshare.links.net</a></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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