Twenty years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an absolutely seminal piece for Wired. This week is a great opportunity to look back at it.

Welcome to the Old Internet Again!

There is a growing discontent around the current state of the World Wide Web. Web 1.0 felt like a place of freedom and creativity. Maybe I'm being romantic, for sure had to have its issues... But remember the whimsical sites in Geocities, the simplicity of email discussion lists or the anonymity of IRC?

The internet seems ripe for change, and millions of people seem poised to connect in new ways, as they reconsider their relationship to technology.

The old internet — the internet we first fell in love with — was a weird and wild and unregulated country. It was experimental, free for all, exhilarating, creative. The browsers in tho…

By the end of 1995, the web moved outward and into the hands of everyone.

30 years ago, the web emerged from the Matrix to change the world. But have we forgotten its original vision? Daniel Kehoe recalls the early days of the web.