About
Cybercultural is a website about internet history and its impact on our culture. It was founded in 2019 by Richard MacManus (@ricmac).
MacManus was the founder and Editor-in-Chief of ReadWriteWeb (RWW), a pioneering tech blog from 2003-2012. RWW was ranked among the top 10 blogs in the world by Technorati and was syndicated by The New York Times.
Testimonials
"One of my favorite places on the web is Cybercultural by @ricmac. His recent "exposé" about Alice Mary Hilton's impact on media theory is a new favorite. Her techno-optimism and humanism resonate with me, particularly as AI blurs the delineation between people and machines. I highly recommend reading it!"
Hannah Aubry, Mastodon contributor, March 2025
"Richard MacManus’ memoir of his experiences running his tech blog, ReadWriteWeb, during the first decade of the 2000s, is a great read. Richard was smart and engaged back then–and still is–so this memoir offers both wonderful retellings about key moments and key people, and an honest look back and appraisal."
Susan Mernit's newsletter, February 2024
"I’m greatly enjoying Richard’s look back on those strangely heady days of the post-mortgage-crisis tech bubble that began to take full advantage of gradients, APIs, and that still somewhat new Cloud infrastructure thing."
Rick Turoczy, Silicon Florist, April 2024
Note: MacManus also authored WebDevelopmentHistory.com (2020-21), a blog about the early years of the web from a developer perspective. It has since been migrated to Cybercultural.
