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Ted Nelson's (who coined the terms hypertext and hypermedia in 1963) seminal cut and paste style book comes across as more of a Cyber-Punk almanac of sorts. Filled with doodles, graphics, wacky fonts, and jokes, and rants!

Link to Computer Lib/Dream Machines on internet archive

Tim Berners Lee, also known as TimBL, was a computer scientist at CERN (European Center For Nuclear Reasearch). The company was in dire need of a solution to a constant problem: data loss. The average stay of an employee was about 2 years, which meant that every 2 years, a piece of the company brain also left. Papers were constantly scattered, and sticky notes were on the constant relay. Often times, looking for specific documents for a project required days of detective work. The problem was that the computer system ran on "trees", information organization that branched off into unrelated topics after a while and required extensive backtracking in order to get back to the topic at hand. His solution to the problem was to think in hypertext instead, like a web of connected topics all linking back to each other. (Not to credit him for the invention of hypertext, that can be credited to Ted Nelson (1950s) and Douglas Engelbart (1960s). It is quite amazing to me that such simple mind mapping can lead to the invention of one of the most groundbreaking concepts to ever grace humanity.

Read the proposal for yourself here: https://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html

I've been obsessed with the heaven's gate story for years but not for the usual reasons.

Forget the nikes...what’s actually wild is their website. It’s 2026 and this server from '97 is still live. who’s even paying the hosting bills for 30 years?

​The weirdest part is if you email that ancient address, a real person actually hits you back. it’s not an auto-reply. Someone is still there guarding a gateway to a world that was supposed to end with the comet.

I spent months digging into who stayed behind to keep the lights on and why.

I ​put everything i found in a video if you guys want to see the "survivors" and their deal I’ll put the link in the comments.

​Who do you think is actually on the other end of those emails?

#B8a 2013 Topps Brand New Series 2 (BNS2) Bonus Set - Alternative name: "Spacey Scott".

My Squidward suicide research last week led me to a strange slew of oddly specific Spongebob websites, the most compelling being The Scumbob Wiki. The site is a user submitted archive of what are considered the worst and most mediocre episodes of the series. Each one has its own wiki page with dry campy reviews, ratings, and categorizations including "Squidward Torture", "Viewer Torture", "Unfunny Episodes", and "Everyone Being Stupid". I read through and watched a few of the Squidward Torture episodes, some of which i've seen, but this time through a different lense. When paired with the Scumbob wiki page, the episodes have a much darker tone that unintentionally disturbs the viewer. Also, it seems that the newer episodes are way more brutal than the original season, perhaps the Red Mist (Squidward Suicide) CreepyPasta influenced the future of Spongebob unintentionally. If you're looking for the lighter side of Spongebob, they actually have a sister site, Anti-scumbob.fandom.com which showcases the episodes deemed "Good".