Museum of the Human Web
The Museum of the Human Web is a curated collection of artifacts from the pre-AI era of the internet, celebrating the human-centric history of web development. It frames the current transition toward AI-assisted creation as the end of an era defined by purely human effort.
Why it matters
It provides a historical perspective on the rapid shift in digital creation methods caused by the rise of generative AI.
The web was made by people. Not by algorithms, not by models, not by machines that dream in code. By people in rooms, garages, and workshops arguing over protocols, shipping software on floppy disks, building companies from nothing, and connecting the world one awkward, brilliant, human decision at a time.
The piece expresses a nostalgic, philosophical viewpoint on technology, which is subjective but not politically partisan.
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