#NETSCAPISM

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Life used to be free (2023)

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banners featuring the original design for mozilla, netscape and the mozilla foundation's former mascot

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Dude I need to start reading Rushkoff's work

He did a PhD in my hometown's university :o

“Douglas Rushkoff has been an authority on the intersection of technology and culture since before the word “google” was anything more than baby talk. He predicted the coming centrality of the Internet (CYBERIA, 1992 – by the time it came out); he coined the terms “viral media” (MEDIA VIRUS, 1994) and “social currency” (Upside Magazine, 1996); he fore-casted the collapse of the dotcom bubble (SXSW, 1997) and the most recent recession in a 2004 column that later became his book, LIFE INC; he even inspired today’s code literacy movement (PROGRAM OR BE PROGRAMMED, 2010). He is the author of a total of twelve bestsellers (translated to over thirty languages), the host of three award-winning documentaries, an award-winning educator and frequent media commentator. In his new book, PRESENT SHOCK: When Everything Happens Now (Current; March 15, 2013), Rushkoff introduces the phenomenon of presentism, or – since most of us are finding it hard to adapt – present shock. Alvin Toffler’s radical 1970 book, Future Shock, theorized that things were changing so fast we would soon lose the ability to cope. Rushkoff argues that the future is now and we’re contending with a fundamentally new challenge. Whereas Toffler said we were disoriented by a future that was careening toward us, Rushkoff argues that we no longer have a sense of a future, of goals, of direction at all. We have a completely new relationship to time; we live in an always-on “now,” where the priorities of this moment seem to be everything.”

— Present Shock - Rushkoff

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Winamp Netscape skin 2000 (x)

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1996

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Web buttons from the 1990’s-2000’s

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Netscape - Home

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New 9:25 am

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Tumblr's layout really wasn't designed for use at low, windows 3.1-ass resolutions.

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Computer Chronicles - The New PCs (1996)

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WELCOME TO THE NETSCAPE YALL

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1996

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