This isn’t a website. Or even a blog.
It’s a conversation between two people who simply enjoy talking about the World Wide Web. In fact, it’s an ongoing conversation that’s been happening a long while over monthly calls where we do nothing more than wax nostalgic about the web’s past, swap observations concerning the present, and ponder challenges for the future. But not matter what, it always comes back to the web. That’s who we are.
Over time, we wanted a place to keep track of the things we talk about. We tried out Discord and Slack and good old fashioned email. But we do love the web, and it is an excellent place for a conversation. Plus, you all get to follow along.
That’s when we started talking about gardens. Digital gardens, of which there are many exceptional examples, each with a rich history and underlying theme. We wondered if it were possible to give the web’s history a garden of its own.
When planting seeds of knowledge, it is often best to begin with a question. Questions give us a chance to focus our thinking. They open up new doorways and passages. And so this is what we came up with.
Here how it works: One of us asks a question. The other answers it, and flips the conversation around with a follow up question. No script or agenda. We don’t have a schedule. Sometimes replies may be quick. Other times they’ll be slow. It’s just a collaboration between Geoff Graham and Jay Hoffmann for us to talk about the web, and what makes it interesting.
These are our Dialogues.
I hope you all enjoy it the way we do. Sign up right here to get the next reply right in your inbox, or follow along on RSS, or Mastodon.