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/sarahdavisba... Support me on Patreon:   / 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/84... Cameron’s World https://www.cameronsworld.net/ Created by Cameron Askin Music by Robin Hughes   / 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/10.1... https://www.salon.com/2001/12/05/webr... https://hover.blog/what-ever-happened... https://www.nytimes.com/1999/01/21/te... 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_Ho... “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... Al ritmo delle stagioni, CC BY 3.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... “Using AI to Decode Animal Communication with Aza Raskin” by Summit, shared under fair use    • Using AI to Decode Animal Communication wi...  PHOTO ATTRIBUTIONS “Ruth's Desk" flickr photo by KevinJump https://flickr.com/photos/thejumps/25... shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license "Big n8 at Home" flickr photo by nateOne https://flickr.com/photos/nateone/769... shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license "Future Gamer." flickr photo by lori05871 https://flickr.com/photos/mrsmaxspix/... shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license "AJ plays with Tonkas" flickr photo by AndrewEick https://flickr.com/photos/andreweick/... shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license "я и компьютер" flickr photo by kurmanka https://flickr.com/photos/kurmanka/87... shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license "Garrick" flickr photo by compujeramey https://flickr.com/photos/compujerame... shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license "Me & Walter in the 80's" flickr photo by AndreasPizsa https://flickr.com/photos/butterseite... shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license "DSC00128" flickr photo by IICD https://flickr.com/photos/iicd/534812... shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license "computer" flickr photo by leviyey https://flickr.com/photos/195303591@N... 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/261... shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license "on the computer" flickr photo by jent103 https://flickr.com/photos/jenthompson... shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license "BN chair" flickr photo by Stephen Cummings https://flickr.com/photos/spcummings/... shared under a Creative Commons (BY) license Mike Mozart from Funny YouTube, USA, CC BY 2.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., 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.

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