Welcome ! This is a frozen copy of my very old website, made before 1998 !
The only section I'm leaving here is the one about Filicudi,just to keep a memory of how was internet in the beginning. Interesting note: I used this basic website texts and paragraphs organization to create the wikipedia page about filicudi island later on. Still some wikipedia philologist could see some traces of the initial page organization seen here.
Meanwhile, you can read my blog here (note from 2025... social media did not exist at that time!) : RoZland.
In the year 1997 I wrote here: Are you still surfing the net with Internet Explorer? Checking your mail and getting your daily virus with Outlook... ? too bad ! you are prehistoric man!
Jump into the future.. use Firefox and Mozilla Thunderbird... (in italian here) you'll never regret your choice! No Visual Basic Viruses! try it now, dude!
Some scattered thoughts from a long time after the creation of this website.
Many bits have passed under the bridges, the world has changed since this old site was created in the 90s (1990's), the internet seemed to us a place of cultural growth and democracy, but we were wrong. Social media managed by private individuals have invaded every nook and cranny and catalyzed the attention of internet citizens, while a good part of the world still 30 years later does not have access to the internet, fake news and digital illiteracy reign and with them democracies fall and head towards totalitarianism and authoritarian regimes. With the advent of AI, propaganda factories, false information, and information wars have given a mortal blow to the growth of humanity, allowing elites of a few very rich people and a few multinationals to control resources and wealth greater than those of entire nations, and decide in a wicked way on the destinies of the world. We thought that the internet would make the world more united.We were wrong. Social media have amplified ignorance, misinformation, gullibility. It's a world that seems to be going in a crazy direction. I hope that in 20 or 30 years, if someone reads this, they can smile and think that all these problems have been solved. RoZ logging out. (2025, April 15th)
I leave here a link already present in this website in 1997, still worth being here : The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is a leading non-profit organization dedicated to defending your rights in the digital world. Their motto, "Electronic Frontier Foundation | Defending your rights in the digital world," perfectly encapsulates their mission to ensure technology supports freedom, justice, and innovation for all people of the world.
