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Aleksandar Totic from the original mosaic team has his website still up. http://totic.org/nscp/index.html http://totic.org/nscp/index.html Personally I enjoye

Aleksandar Totic from the original mosaic team has his website still up. http://totic.org/nscp/index.html http://totic.org/nscp/index.html Personally I enjoyed this bit: http://totic.org/nscp/swirl/swirl.html http://totic.org/nscp/swirl/swirl.html If Aleksandar reads hacker news I hope he never takes that down.

fearingreprisal 6y ago
"So far, I haven't received any swirl pictures from the outside world. I find this hard to believe that we are the only ones enjoying this activity." Hard to believe, isn't it...
- rconti 6y ago
  We called them "swirlies" in middle school/high school. But I've never actually seen someone get one, and it could well be mostly apocryphal. And it wasn't something you sought out, it was like, you were getting bullied.
chrisco255 6y ago
I liked this quote from the page: "Tim Berners-Lee on home page: Q. The idea of the "home page" evolved in a different direction. A. Yes. With all respect, the personal home page is not a private expression; it's a public billboard that people work on to say what they're interested in. That's not as interesting to me as people using it in their private lives. It's exhibitionism, if you like. Or self-expression. It's openness, and it's great in a way, it's people letting the community into their homes. But it's not really their home. They may call it a home page, but it's more like the gnome in somebody's front yard than the home itself. People don't have the tools for using the Web for their homes, or for organizing their private lives; they don't really put their scrapbooks on the Web. They don't have family Webs. There are many distributed families nowadays, especially in the high-tech fields, so it would be quite reasonable to do that, yet I don't know of any. One reason is that most people don't have the ability to publish with restricted access." Basically was describing the concept of social networks before they existed on the web.
- infinity0 6y ago
  Except it's not really private; some random big company sees everything you do inside your house. Oh wait TVs do that now. I guess the real world evolved to be more like social networks...
rconti 6y ago
The Oasis closed a couple of years back :(

fearingreprisal 6y ago

"So far, I haven't received any swirl pictures from the outside world. I find this hard to believe that we are the only ones enjoying this activity." Hard to believe, isn't it...

rconti 6y ago
We called them "swirlies" in middle school/high school. But I've never actually seen someone get one, and it could well be mostly apocryphal. And it wasn't something you sought out, it was like, you were getting bullied.

chrisco255 6y ago

I liked this quote from the page: "Tim Berners-Lee on home page: Q. The idea of the "home page" evolved in a different direction. A. Yes. With all respect, the personal home page is not a private expression; it's a public billboard that people work on to say what they're interested in. That's not as interesting to me as people using it in their private lives. It's exhibitionism, if you like. Or self-expression. It's openness, and it's great in a way, it's people letting the community into their homes. But it's not really their home. They may call it a home page, but it's more like the gnome in somebody's front yard than the home itself. People don't have the tools for using the Web for their homes, or for organizing their private lives; they don't really put their scrapbooks on the Web. They don't have family Webs. There are many distributed families nowadays, especially in the high-tech fields, so it would be quite reasonable to do that, yet I don't know of any. One reason is that most people don't have the ability to publish with restricted access." Basically was describing the concept of social networks before they existed on the web.

infinity0 6y ago
Except it's not really private; some random big company sees everything you do inside your house. Oh wait TVs do that now. I guess the real world evolved to be more like social networks...

rconti 6y ago

The Oasis closed a couple of years back :(