The early years of the web were absolutely this chaotic maelstrom of new things happening every week. But news of it was hard to come by. In the UK / Ireland we

The early years of the web were absolutely this chaotic maelstrom of new things happening every week. But news of it was hard to come by. In the UK / Ireland we had some great tech coverage in the form of shows like 'The Net' [1] that regularly showed off early internet craziness like the 'We Live in Public' project. However a better analogy would be the 'web 2.0' era, when as a college student I had an early internet politics / technology podcast [3]. It seemed like every week there was a huge new development either in technology or surveillance. From the first location based social networks [4] to the birth of Youtube. People were podcasting for the first time, and internet video was becoming economically feasible at low to no cost. It was really a radical time, with broadcasters freaking out about how they would adapt, and a whole generation of people becoming whats now known as 'content creators'. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Net_(British_TV_series) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Net_(British_TV_series) [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Live_in_Public https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/We_Live_in_Public [3] https://archive.org/search?query=technolotics https://archive.org/search?query=technolotics [4]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaiku https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaiku