I feel as though reading Rachel Green's article, "Web Work: A History of The Internet", has allowed me to gain a different perspective on the internet. Honestly, I had no idea that there were art communities online in the 1990s. I also had no idea that there was a serious online feminist movement and art community represented by females. As a twenty-one year old, my experience with the internet came far after it first began. I vaguely remember the internet before Apple products, somewhere in the early 2000s before the first Iphones dropped. I would play on my mom's cube-like microsoft computer and use softwares that she had downloaded through CDs. There were a few different websites that I was allowed to go on, and I remember how it was necessary to search everything with the www. and .com additives. It is super interesting to new that the internet had been used by communities of artists before I was born. I feel as though the concerns of people about the internet back then still have a lot of relevance for today's society. I wonder how people online in the 90s would think about corporations online nowadays. Would they think that there is a sort of monopoly in regards to the online world? I'm not really sure how I would approach that question. I do feel as though there are issues with bots and algorithms filtering information to fit what people already want to see. I wonder if there were ever discussions about the internets future where people hypothesized these types of situations. I'm sure people talked about AI, but I wonder if artists in those online communities would feel as though it is relevant to art. To finish my reflection I wanted to state that the new knowledge that this article has provided to me makes me curious about what else I do not know about the internet's history.
