A world wide web of change. I can remember clearly the first time I ever used the internet.
It was on my Commodore 64 – one of the earliest mass-market consumer PCs – and I had just received my shiny new whizz-bang modem. It was a beastly thing – one of those old-fashioned devices that you had to physically put the telephone receiver into like in the 1983 Hollywood film WarGames. After what took an age of bee-ooh-wee ssshrzzkkk dialling noises, I would finally be connected to what we might now think of as more like the British television-based Teletext information system than the modern Web. In fact, back then there was no such thing as the Web and in order to move between ‘sites’ in a world without internet routers you had to redial a new computer. Pages filled with monochromatic text and graphics made using carefully positioned letters were the order of the day.
Facebook. Moldova. Power & the Network: 3 Mechanisms & 1 Caveat. Is Cyber-Activism Just Another Tool for (US) Cyber Warfare? Defining Digital Activism: Part 3 – Where Are We Going? Presentation for Palomar5.