Tools 4 Procedural Publishing

01_Publishing on the World Wide Web

I this first session will focus on how publish on the World Wide Web.

We'll get familiar with simple tools such as HTML and CSS, which constitute the basis of any website. And *concurrently* we'll investigate how, before the arrival of Web 2.0 social media platforms, publishing on the web was a DIY activity, that resulted in an explosion of form and content put out in the form of homepages for the world to s ee. By 2016 many of these have left the Web, specially after Geocities - once the mo st popular website hosting service - was acquired by Yahoo and shutdown in October 26, 2009. However, thanks to the efforts of archiving efforts from Archive Team and Internet Archive, many of these website can still be browsed today.

As a an outcome of this 2-day session I propose the collaborative creation of a website that charts the history and existence of Geocities, using HTML and CSS.

Resources

Archive Time
Wayback machine
Geocities archives:
Digital Amnesia documentary

Technical Resources

etherpad
etherpad download scripts
web design tools: ...