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Project 2424

The Future Independent Web: Visions of what's to come!

24 essays one every hour for 24 hours were launched November 12, 2001

Have a look at the diverse group of independent web writers and artists around the world who contributed to "The Future Independent Web: Visions of What's to Come."

Original contribution guidelines to be read as contextual reference only. This project is no longer active.

Alan Herrell

Peer to Peer are the most dangerous words on the planet ...

Aycan Gulez

In 1990, the first web browser was written by Tim Barners-Lee, the very same person who ...

Carole Guevin

My first modem was a 760 baud terminal with a needle burning paper by which I hooked to the university main frame -- from home! ...

Chris MacGregor

An ordinary man sprints into a phone booth and in the blink of an eye, he is Superman. A lady ...

Christopher Robbins

I was hiking through the hills of Southern France with my brother this past summer ...

Daniel Bogan

was working for a small multimedia firm in sydney at the time - a crazy and fun place ...

Dave Bastian

The burger joints of America are hardly the place to go looking for ...

Gregory Johnson

The Internet is evolving and so must its purpose ...

Halcyon Styn

Halcyon offers 15 predictions of what the independent web will be like in the future ...

Jeffrey Zeldman

Writers and designers don't live by bread alone -- even when it's really good bread ...

Jonathan Dillon-Hayes

History repeats, and repeats, and repeats, and then you finally get a choice to repeat again ...

Juanita Benedicto

Five years ago, while still in library school, I attended my first conference at the Javits Center ...

Kitty Mead

Fifty years from now, I'll be just about 100 years old. As things go ...

Mark Bernstein

Tommy Cowde leaves the shuttle ramp with the rest of Alliance Tech School 3721's senior field trippers. In two straight lines ...

Matte Elsbernd

The web is simple, quick and easy. 3-Letters equals a tidy package ...

Maurice Wright

Love. The bible calls it the greatest of all virtues ...

Meryl Evans

I foresee an independent web ... where deaf ears can see all that is said; ...

Molly E. Holzschlag

Michael is a man who wakes up laughing. It's rare, don't you think, for a 41 year old man to be filled with that much joy? ...

Molly Sokolow_Hayden

I feel a bit odd writing about the independent web because ...

Nick Finck

In the early 1400's a German man by the name of Johannes Gutenberg ...

Parker Torrence

What will the Independent Web of the future be like? In very many ways it will ...

Philippe Gully

The web is made of millions of web pages freely accessible to all ...

Shirley E. Kaiser

As a result of the events of September 11th, 2001, literally millions of us dashed to our computers to find out up-to-the-second news ...

TXEL

Being the author of an independent web site is very hip nowadays ...

Wesley Grubbs

As most people in the world know, America is a very isolated country in many regards. Unfortunately, many Americans don't know this themselves ...

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