Comments on: Frayed http://lucaschan.com/weblog/2005/10/24/frayed/ epic Mon, 26 Apr 2010 15:38:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Richard Soderberg http://lucaschan.com/weblog/2005/10/24/frayed/comment-page-1/#comment-86 Richard Soderberg Sat, 24 Dec 2005 01:07:20 +0000 http://lucaschan.com/weblog/?p=28#comment-86 Back when Fray was new the web was filled with artistic journals - people telling stories, in some fashion or another. One year search engines spiked in popularity, allowing many more people than before to search for things that might interest them. Over that year more and more of the journals were made private, hiding stories unexpectedly found by a boss, a mother, or a friend. The illusion of some amount of privacy was stripped away, and many reacted with what appeared to be silence. Of that period, I remember three sites clearly that are still alive and public: fray.com, sothere.com, and electricalsocket.com. Fray stories remind me of picturebooks for adults. So.There has published one closure per day since late 1997. The Electrical Socket remains a work of art that surpasses average designs. Fray shared storytelling with many, and many shared it to many more. Nowadays we have LiveJournal with millions of people each telling a story in their own way (albeit without the visual aesthetics). Fray must have been a part of that. Thanks, Derek, for letting us all listen in. Back when Fray was new the web was filled with artistic journals – people telling stories, in some fashion or another. One year search engines spiked in popularity, allowing many more people than before to search for things that might interest them. Over that year more and more of the journals were made private, hiding stories unexpectedly found by a boss, a mother, or a friend. The illusion of some amount of privacy was stripped away, and many reacted with what appeared to be silence.

Of that period, I remember three sites clearly that are still alive and public: fray.com, sothere.com, and electricalsocket.com. Fray stories remind me of picturebooks for adults. So.There has published one closure per day since late 1997. The Electrical Socket remains a work of art that surpasses average designs.

Fray shared storytelling with many, and many shared it to many more. Nowadays we have LiveJournal with millions of people each telling a story in their own way (albeit without the visual aesthetics). Fray must have been a part of that. Thanks, Derek, for letting us all listen in.

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