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   Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 01:10:13 JST Richard MacManus

   1/2 I made a bot! I’ve created an internet history themed Mastodon bot: @cybercultural. It posts screenshots of classic tech news websites and tech blogs from Dot-Com, Web 2.0 and the 2010s. There’s one post per hour, so it’s not too noisy. I’ve attached an example toot, and I invite you all to follow the bot if you want some tech blogging memories in your feed.

   Note: it’s still ‘under construction’, as we used to say in the ‘90s, but otherwise good to go!

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     Richard MacManus (ricmac@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 12-Feb-2025 01:10:26 JST Richard MacManus

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     • Tim Chambers
     • Simon Willison
     • internetarchive
     • Stefan Bohacek
     • botwiki.org

     2/2 I have to thank @stefan for his inspiration and @botwiki website — a great bots resource! Also shoutout to @simon, whose post guided the structure I chose: https://til.simonwillison.net/mastodon/mastodon-bots-github-actions. I'm using a #Python script running on GitHub Actions, with screenshots taken via Playwright.

     Other credits:
     - ChatGPT helped me build this.
     - I’m hosting my bot on @tchambers Indieweb.social instance.
     - And finally, of course, I’m using @internetarchive's Wayback Machine for the content snapshots.