A short archive-style newsletter about the history of file hosting, featuring old services such as mail-order burned CDs and early paid file hosting. Issues are brief, link to videos, and offer little original analysis.
Website: https://filehosting.ghost.io/
Long-form essays on semantic computing, exploring what 'world models' mean in AI and how representation, embodiment and relational structure shape intelligence. It also looks at the history and experience of the Internet as a place.
Original reporting and historical research on 1980s and 1990s virtual worlds such as Lucasfilm's Habitat, Club Caribe and WorldsAway. Issues cover software restoration, newly found development documents and interviews with people who worked on these early online spaces.
A personal newsletter by a veteran internet entrepreneur on the art of getting attention, drawing on firsthand experience building early adult websites and startups. It offers historical anecdotes and branding and web-business lessons told with British humour.
Kyle Ormiston's personal newsletter mixes reflective essays on computing history, such as the back-and-forth between centralized and personal computing, with allegorical takes on the early internet. It also explains his decision to run a simple, ad-free personal site that opts out of AI training.
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