Internet Culture Blogs

Discover the best independent blogs about internet culture on BlogRolly.

• an old thought and the new web — Remember pop-under ads from the early web? In this post I go back to September 2001, recall Yahoo and GeoCities, and exp
• Asterisks for the f*n of it — Curious about the asterisk trend in online swearing? I trace Blackbird Spyplane’s playful bleeping, cite New York Times
• The Octothorpe, Part 2 — I carry the octothorpe into the age of touch-tone phones, programming and social media, showing how this once-obscure pr
• Why Have a Personal Site Instead of Social Media? — I reflect on why I keep a personal website instead of relying on social media. Owning my own space means control, longev
• The indie-web — I reflect on the challenges of the indie web and why escaping big-tech platforms isn’t as simple as it sounds. Discovera
• People of the Internet — Digital tribes define identity beyond borders memes, values shape modern belonging in overlapping online worlds.