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

[Justin Hall]

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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