In the second episode of “Anon and I”, I am joined by Concrete Horizon to recap the entire history of the World Wide Web in under one hour. Listen to find out why forums died—what a WebRing is—how not to get doxxed—who is behind the worst website on the internet.To correct my guest on one small point, an archive of the BBS system does exist and can be found at www.textfiles.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit anglology.substack.com
This is episode one of a podcast series I hope to run under the provisional title “Anon and I”. I will be interviewing different anonymous posters, mostly from Twitter. Please excuse any production issues in these early episodes while I work out how to actually record and edit a podcast.Mr S.T.A.R. is an anonymous China scholar who can be found on Substack here, and on Twitter here. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit anglology.substack.com