The Internet Used to Be a Place

The rise and fall of the old internet, a love letter to Geocities, a goldfish rebellion on Hypnospace Outlaw, and the importance of doorways🚪 Watch my videos ad-free, before anyone else, by joining Nebula: https://go.nebula.tv/sarahdavisbaker Watch *this* video on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/sarahdavisbaker-the-internet-used-to-be-a-place Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/sarahdavisbaker SPOILERS? Early to mid-game footage used of Hypnospace Outlaw. Mild subplot spoilers, but no major spoilers. REFERENCE MATERIAL Hypnospace Outlaw Developed by Tendershoot https://store.steampowered.com/app/844590/Hypnospace_Outlaw Cameron’s World https://www.cameronsworld.net/ Created by Cameron Askin Music by Robin Hughes https://soundcloud.com/1n2n All GeoCities websites copyright to their respective owners, shared under fair use. Huge thanks to the archival projects at https://archive.org and https://geocities.restorativland.org for making this video possible – as well as https://theoldnet.com and https://oldweb.today READING MATERIALS REFERENCED Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention by Johann Hari The haunting of GeoCities and the politics of access control on the early Web https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1461444820951609 https://www.salon.com/2001/12/05/webring/ https://hover.blog/what-ever-happened-to-webrings/ https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/21/technology/surfing-in-circles-and-loving-it.html VIDEO ATTRIBUTIONS “Who’s Boss?” by Affiliated Film, accessed via the Prelinger Archives https://archive.org/details/WhosBoss1950 “Home Movie: 004690”, accessed via the Prelinger Arhcives https://archive.org/details/201621_Home_Movie_004690 “You and Your Family” by Blake (B.K.) Inc, accessed via the Prelinger Archives https://archive.org/details/YouandYo1946 “Plow that Broke the Plains”, accessed via the Prelinger Archives https://archive.org/details/plow_that_broke_the_plains Al ritmo delle stagioni, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0, via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Italian_wolves_(Canis_lupus_italicus).webm “Using AI to Decode Animal Communication with Aza Raskin” by Summit, shared under fair use https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3tUXbbbMhvk&ab_channel=Summit PHOTO ATTRIBUTIONS “Ruth's Desk" flickr photo by KevinJump https://flickr.com/photos/thejumps/25254597 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license "Big n8 at Home" flickr photo by nateOne https://flickr.com/photos/nateone/76923862 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license "Future Gamer." flickr photo by lori05871 https://flickr.com/photos/mrsmaxspix/1445902240 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license "AJ plays with Tonkas" flickr photo by AndrewEick https://flickr.com/photos/andreweick/175161659 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license "я и компьютер" flickr photo by kurmanka https://flickr.com/photos/kurmanka/8763786570 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license "Garrick" flickr photo by compujeramey https://flickr.com/photos/compujeramey/22204285 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license "Me & Walter in the 80's" flickr photo by AndreasPizsa https://flickr.com/photos/butterseite/526088725 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license "DSC00128" flickr photo by IICD https://flickr.com/photos/iicd/5348125515 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license "computer" flickr photo by leviyey https://flickr.com/photos/195303591@N05/51975572768 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license "Grandma Helen and Andrew at Mom's Computer Lab 1995" flickr photo by wordcat57 https://flickr.com/photos/wordcat/261755240 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license "on the computer" flickr photo by jent103 https://flickr.com/photos/jenthompson/397226426 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license "BN chair" flickr photo by Stephen Cummings https://flickr.com/photos/spcummings/3198516535 shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license Mike Mozart from Funny YouTube, USA, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Music from Epidemic Sound Why did you read all the way down to the bottom of this caption? You must really like attributions. It’s OK. I won’t tell anyone. I like attributions, too.