class: center, middle # Internet Girlfriend Club --- class: center, middle .center[  ] ??? - I love the internet, man, I just really love it --- .center[] ??? - I am 31, I was born in 1986, and I got the internet when I was 9, in the early part of 1996. --- .center[] ??? Here's an important part of this time period, my first dedicated internet experience, a site called Freezone.com. --- .left[              ] ??? - This means I spent the most crucial formative years of my life surfin the net and also being the first generation to really do so --- background-image: url(../assets/img/pc.jpg) ??? - Here is a picture of my teen computer setup, which is sadly extremely similar to my life now. I saved up money from my job working at my dad's bingo parlor to buy a special video card that was able to digitize VHS tapes, and this is like, a big part of what I do for a living now, working in media preservation. --- .center[] ??? - I met a bunch of people and made a bunch of really close important friendships on the internet when I was this age, and this was also an age before it was cool to meet people on the internet. It was just.. weird. --- .center[] ??? - It was also a different internet, and this is what I want to talk about, and what I find so inspiring, and sort of a guidepost for how I want to live my life, and the web I want to support and live in --- # "Mozilla Manifesto" [[link]](https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/details/) - The Internet is an integral part of modern life—a key component in education, communication, collaboration, business, entertainment and society as a whole. - The Internet is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible. - The Internet must enrich the lives of individual human beings. - Individuals’ security and privacy on the Internet are fundamental and must not be treated as optional. - Individuals must have the ability to shape the Internet and their own experiences on the Internet. - The effectiveness of the Internet as a public resource depends upon interoperability (protocols, data formats, content), innovation and decentralized participation worldwide. - Free and open source software promotes the development of the Internet as a public resource. - Transparent community-based processes promote participation, accountability and trust. - Commercial involvement in the development of the Internet brings many benefits; a balance between commercial profit and public benefit is critical. - Magnifying the public benefit aspects of the Internet is an important goal, worthy of time, attention and commitment. ??? Mozilla principles, these will go off the page but yeah --- .center[] [oldweb.today](https://github.com/oldweb-today/netcapsule) ??? - so I made this web zine starting in earnest almost a year ago, to collect stories from this unique nascent time period, this precious early web, to try to articulate what I found so meaningful about this time (other than my own self-aggrandizing nostalgia) --- .center[] [internetgirlfriend.club](http://internetgirlfriend.club) ??? - going to round up a few of my favorite zine submissions and talk about them and I hope they inspire you and the work that you do, presumably on or near the internet, until I run out of time --- [Telnet to my heart](http://internetgirlfriend.club/volume1/3.html) .center[] --- [...I'm her real life boyfriend](http://internetgirlfriend.club/volume1/4.html) .center[] --- [Celestial_Vegan](http://internetgirlfriend.club/volume6/4.html) .center[] --- [How AIM Ruined My Teenagehood](http://internetgirlfriend.club/volume1/3.html) .center[] --- [NoMakeoutClub](http://internetgirlfriend.club/volume6/6.html) .center[] --- # 📝 📝 📝 ### [http://internetgirlfriend.club/cfp/](http://internetgirlfriend.club/cfp/) # 📝 📝 📝