Loading ...I’ve recently started browsing Digg, when I’m taking a break from more important tasks. I usually prefer to syndicate sites, but I wouldn’t subscribe to any of the Digg RSS feeds, as I just know it would be completely overwhelming. And I’m just not in the habit of ‘Digging’ something (although, I do save interesting links in delicious). But I’ve picked-up some interesting tidbits by browsing Digg’s most popular items.
Today, in one of my increasing number of Digg-browsing sessions, I noticed a highly dugg link (caution, there’s some bad language from the locals) for a site called the Internet ‘96. If you’re interested in the history of the Web, you should definitely check it out. I wouldn’t want to spoil the entire link for you, but you just have to see the original Pepsi site;
The Web hasn’t changed one bit, has it?
I’m not particularly interested in the whole Diggnation phenomenon either, although, it does look like Kevin Rose and his co-anchor have a great deal of fun on the show (I’d love to do a UK equivalent, if anyone’s interested?!). At the very least, it’ll definitely go down as an interesting part of the Web’s history, even if it feels like that corner of the Web is only populated with the most technical of the techies.
On that note, the Revision 3 site (another Kevin Rose production) has recently been updated, and it just goes to show how much the Web has moved on since the Internet of ‘96:
The Revision 3 re-design (still room for improvement)
It’s not just the production values that have changed - we’re talking about TV networks for the Internet generation, here! Some people, myself included, pretty much consume all their media through a broadband connection. Don’t even think about contrasting that against everything you saw back in Internet 96!
