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Kristoffer
Mar 26, 2023
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Another Week, Another Newsletter — Observations From The Internet Wilderness.
Sunday, March 26th, 2023

Dear reader

I’m wearing shorts. The internet is fantastic, but this week I had my head in the sun and the laptop on the shelf, and soon we are going on a family date to eat lasagna and drink Campari. Thank you for existing.

With care

Kristoffer


Roadside Flowers

Nowruz is the Iranian New Year and a ceremonial table display.

Dreamwiki is web poetry.

Chia.Earth is web poetry in making.


Field Notes

Internet Girlfriend Club: Volume 12

What happens when you invite internet strangers to write about teen love on the internet connected by phone lines? You get a lot of diary posts about usernames, web fora, and long-gone websites. In other words, you get a pleasant reading for a Sunday afternoon.

“I know it’s hard, it makes you cringe and want to cry and throw up thinking about your dark past, but please cast that aside, submit anonymously (as MANY authors in this bundle have done), and help bring more early web stories (good or bad) to the wider world web.” — Ashley Blewer

From My To Me

It is no secret that I am working on a conference as an extension of this newsletter. In the process, I am revisiting the work of writers and artists who shape how I perceive the web and approach curation. This week, Olia Lialina’s reflection about the online shift from “my” to “me” left a mark.

“Don’t see making your own web page as a nostalgia, don’t participate in creating the netstalgia trend. What you make is a statement, an act of emancipation. You make it to continue a 25-year-old tradition of liberation.” — Olia Lialina


Collections

  • Tracks as Envelopes

  • Air Traffic Controller Radio

  • North American English Dialects

  • Various Objects

  • Digital Matterealities Archive

  • Notes on Taste

  • Text Only Websites


The Naive Logo. A blue dove with Naive Weekly written on the wings.

Hi, I’m Kristoffer and you have just read Naive Weekly — Observations from the Internet Wilderness.

Last week this letter was sent to 1447 inboxes. It will always be free for everyone, so I’m keeping it donation-based. Currently, thirty people support me with a paid subscription. Logo by Studio Hollywood. Photograph by Ana Santl.

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