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by matheusmoreira 2212 days ago
Related: http://contemporary-home-computing.org/RUE/

> It isn’t a particularly sophisticated way to show emotions or manifest an attitude, but still so much more interesting and expressive than what is available now:

> First of all, because it is an expression of a dislike, when today there is only an opportunity to like.

> Second, the statement lays outside of any scale or dualism: the dislike is not the opposite of a like.

> Third: it is not a button or function, it works only in combination with another graphic or word. Such a graphic needed to be made or found and collected, then placed in the right context on the page—all done manually.

> I am mainly interested in early web amateurs because I strongly believe that the web in that state was the culmination of the Digital Revolution.