Show Notes
Why is the internet the way it is? In Web 1.0, a new six-part podcast series, Irish Times videographer Enda O’Dowd explores the arguments and innovations that were happening back when the web was new, and how they reverberate in today’s messy and chaotic online world.
This episode looks at the lost potential of the internet to help people better understand one another, beginning with the theories of psychologist Carl Rodgers in the 1940s.
Rodger’s novel methods of conflict resolution, which he tested in Northern Ireland, would inspire Joseph Weizenbaum, the developer of Eliza, the first AI chatbot, all the way back in 1966.
But a computer scientist in Dublin later used that same technology to build one of the first automated trolls - foreshadowing how unpleasant and hostile the online world was to become. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
More from Web 1.0
Editing itself is a series of putting a structure, a controlled narrative, onto life - which is itself uncontrollable. In the book “The Uncontrollability of the World” author Harmut Rosa writes about how, in life today, there can be “no space in public and political discourse for the idea — the reality — of uncontrollability in social life.”
A lot of credit is given to pornography for driving technological change. In reality it’s often an urban myth.
Web 1.0 is a new six part series from The Irish Times that looks at the origins of the modern internet. We talk to everyone from coders to astrologers and pornographers to hear the stories of people who were there and designed the methods of communications that we all use today.
This is the story of how Barry Flanaghan brought the internet into Irish homes. Though it’s an Irish story, there are variations of it in countries across the world.
Why is the internet the way it is? In Web 1.0, a new six-part podcast series, Irish Times videographer Enda O’Dowd explores the arguments and innovations that were happening back when the web was new, and how they reverberate in today’s messy and chaotic online world.