Stories in Digital Media (SIDM) was a blog run by a few students and the professor Frieder Nake, part of the former Digital Media programme in the state of Bremen, Germany. By the end of the first decade of the millennium, the web and digital technology were advancing at an unprecedented pace in the social and artistic sphere. Developments were exciting, and we kept a log of some events and took time to reflect.

What you see here is a rendition of the content as it was back then, in a different, static archival representation. Enjoy this glimpse into a hopeful and exciting past.

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The 00s: Lists of official relevance

December 28, 2009 · Andre Hoffmann · Art Culture · 1 comment

The 00s will end in a few days. I take this opportunity to link to the top lists for this decade. Webby's Top Web Moments of the decade cnet's top downloads of the decade Top 10 gadgets of the decade The Top Selling Games of the 2000s Top 15 Most Influential Games of the 2000s …

The 00s: Revolutions, Evolutions, things we lost in the fire

December 17, 2009 · Andre Hoffmann · Rant

I take this opportunity to write down what the 00s were technologically all about. Most points here I wrote down by heart, with some I did some extra research. Enjoy the soon-to-be-retro-feelings! the internet sow it's wild oats in the dot com bubble, then its coming-of-agewith the web 2.0, 2005 the world faces one billion …