spencer chang
@spencer.place
artist, engineer, toymaker. making software you can touch
i have a lot of domains
🌐 https://spencer.place
🥠 https://internetsculptures.com
✍️ https://news.spencer.place
🛝 https://playhtml.fun
📱 https://shrine.computer
i have a lot of domains
🌐 https://spencer.place
🥠 https://internetsculptures.com
✍️ https://news.spencer.place
🛝 https://playhtml.fun
📱 https://shrine.computer
i used millions of files from @archive.org to make a website where you can watch how the internet evolved
scroll through home videos and news stories, unedited selfies and collaged memes, all merged in one timeline
alivetheory.net
scroll through home videos and news stories, unedited selfies and collaged memes, all merged in one timeline
alivetheory.net
November 6, 2025 at 6:19 PM
i used millions of files from @archive.org to make a website where you can watch how the internet evolved
scroll through home videos and news stories, unedited selfies and collaged memes, all merged in one timeline
alivetheory.net
scroll through home videos and news stories, unedited selfies and collaged memes, all merged in one timeline
alivetheory.net
i have decided white is too clean for the brand vibe - we must go with texture & contrast. beauty in the imperfection
November 5, 2025 at 8:13 PM
i have decided white is too clean for the brand vibe - we must go with texture & contrast. beauty in the imperfection
do yall like white or gray
November 4, 2025 at 8:16 PM
do yall like white or gray
hosting a playhtml get-together in SF at the new TIAT space sunday afternoon!
come make internet playgrounds, communal games, & tiny social spaces & build on open-source
register luma.com/w4n90met here!
come make internet playgrounds, communal games, & tiny social spaces & build on open-source
register luma.com/w4n90met here!
November 4, 2025 at 8:15 PM
hosting a playhtml get-together in SF at the new TIAT space sunday afternoon!
come make internet playgrounds, communal games, & tiny social spaces & build on open-source
register luma.com/w4n90met here!
come make internet playgrounds, communal games, & tiny social spaces & build on open-source
register luma.com/w4n90met here!
thank you jolie for this thoughtful & generous conversation!!
in it: how we can steward digital spaces & technology broadly, making things for your community, & how these interact with the most discussed tech of today, LLMs
substack.com/home/post/p-...
in it: how we can steward digital spaces & technology broadly, making things for your community, & how these interact with the most discussed tech of today, LLMs
substack.com/home/post/p-...
The Digital Architect
How Spencer Chang engineers playful, intimate software for Our Internet.
substack.com
October 30, 2025 at 5:21 PM
thank you jolie for this thoughtful & generous conversation!!
in it: how we can steward digital spaces & technology broadly, making things for your community, & how these interact with the most discussed tech of today, LLMs
substack.com/home/post/p-...
in it: how we can steward digital spaces & technology broadly, making things for your community, & how these interact with the most discussed tech of today, LLMs
substack.com/home/post/p-...
ok the mobile view is kinda cool too.. it kinda feels like tiktok but you are traveling through the content from the history of the internet which somehow makes me feel more reverent towards it?
October 29, 2025 at 9:38 PM
ok the mobile view is kinda cool too.. it kinda feels like tiktok but you are traveling through the content from the history of the internet which somehow makes me feel more reverent towards it?
Reposted by spencer chang
Server Charms are tiny, portable microcontroller setups made with recycled vape batteries. They create their own Wi-Fi network, inviting curious people to connect with their devices where a captive portal opens, leading to small webpages.
codeberg.org/actinomy/ser...
codeberg.org/actinomy/ser...
October 28, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Server Charms are tiny, portable microcontroller setups made with recycled vape batteries. They create their own Wi-Fi network, inviting curious people to connect with their devices where a captive portal opens, leading to small webpages.
codeberg.org/actinomy/ser...
codeberg.org/actinomy/ser...
making a project about the history of the internet and having fun with different slider designs from different eras
October 28, 2025 at 6:09 PM
making a project about the history of the internet and having fun with different slider designs from different eras
ok what are the odds we can co-opt AI into meaning "alive internet" rather than "artificial intelligence"
October 27, 2025 at 5:34 PM
ok what are the odds we can co-opt AI into meaning "alive internet" rather than "artificial intelligence"
excited to share a new piece here & honored to finally make something in dedication to the Archive’s monumental work :)
come to the opening if youre around!
come to the opening if youre around!
Celebrate 1 trillion pages archived on the #WaybackMachine… through art 🌐🎨
Internet Archive x Gray Area features works inspired by memory, preservation & digital culture. In person in San Francisco!
📅 Sat, Nov 1
🕗 5 PM
📍 300 Funston Ave
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1872604563...
#Wayback1T
Internet Archive x Gray Area features works inspired by memory, preservation & digital culture. In person in San Francisco!
📅 Sat, Nov 1
🕗 5 PM
📍 300 Funston Ave
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1872604563...
#Wayback1T
October 24, 2025 at 11:43 PM
excited to share a new piece here & honored to finally make something in dedication to the Archive’s monumental work :)
come to the opening if youre around!
come to the opening if youre around!
sharing a screenshot from the other app only because there are still a few people thinking whimsically about the web there!
what do yall think? what other kinds of communal interactions could we have on the web that make it feel alive & inhabited?
what do yall think? what other kinds of communal interactions could we have on the web that make it feel alive & inhabited?
October 22, 2025 at 5:58 PM
sharing a screenshot from the other app only because there are still a few people thinking whimsically about the web there!
what do yall think? what other kinds of communal interactions could we have on the web that make it feel alive & inhabited?
what do yall think? what other kinds of communal interactions could we have on the web that make it feel alive & inhabited?
testing a mini-zine that unfolds into instructions to send with internetsculptures.com
October 21, 2025 at 6:00 PM
testing a mini-zine that unfolds into instructions to send with internetsculptures.com
Reposted by spencer chang
The past few years have been extremely challenging & my heart always feels heavy. @aphid.org constantly reminds me to find as many pockets of joy. Loving this gorgeous sculpture made by @spencer.place that sits at an altar space in our home. When I need a pick-me-up, I seek a fortune from it.
October 17, 2025 at 2:11 AM
The past few years have been extremely challenging & my heart always feels heavy. @aphid.org constantly reminds me to find as many pockets of joy. Loving this gorgeous sculpture made by @spencer.place that sits at an altar space in our home. When I need a pick-me-up, I seek a fortune from it.
i have decided to become shameless
October 13, 2025 at 10:42 PM
i have decided to become shameless
thanks to my new sponsor from this piece 🥺🧡
October 11, 2025 at 9:04 PM
thanks to my new sponsor from this piece 🥺🧡
October 11, 2025 at 7:08 PM
inspired to write a piece about this
any other moments you've encountered that attest to this?
any other moments you've encountered that attest to this?
alive internet theory
We finally landed and Dan and I caught a cab to Manhattan together. Making social media social again!
October 10, 2025 at 7:52 PM
inspired to write a piece about this
any other moments you've encountered that attest to this?
any other moments you've encountered that attest to this?
revisiting this piece i wrote almost two years ago(!) & thinking about it in context to this gentle affirmation of existence as social interaction
news.spencer.place/p/ti-09-the-...
news.spencer.place/p/ti-09-the-...
October 10, 2025 at 5:48 PM
revisiting this piece i wrote almost two years ago(!) & thinking about it in context to this gentle affirmation of existence as social interaction
news.spencer.place/p/ti-09-the-...
news.spencer.place/p/ti-09-the-...
when you hear "tiny internets" what kind of logo do you imagine conveys that
i think i want a tiny outstretched hand cursor incorporated but not sure what else to include
i think i want a tiny outstretched hand cursor incorporated but not sure what else to include
October 10, 2025 at 12:10 AM
when you hear "tiny internets" what kind of logo do you imagine conveys that
i think i want a tiny outstretched hand cursor incorporated but not sure what else to include
i think i want a tiny outstretched hand cursor incorporated but not sure what else to include
ok go off goat (hollis frampton to the MoMA in 1970 after they asked to do a retrospective of her work, "all for love and honor and no money is included at all")
source www.jubilee-art.org/wp-content/u...
source www.jubilee-art.org/wp-content/u...
October 9, 2025 at 5:14 PM
ok go off goat (hollis frampton to the MoMA in 1970 after they asked to do a retrospective of her work, "all for love and honor and no money is included at all")
source www.jubilee-art.org/wp-content/u...
source www.jubilee-art.org/wp-content/u...
love this writeup & distinction between flavors of social media..
i think all the social media i have ever made (& what im after w playhtml) is about this gentle exchange of “i am here!”
we call out into the void and a stranger answers. how magical is that
i think all the social media i have ever made (& what im after w playhtml) is about this gentle exchange of “i am here!”
we call out into the void and a stranger answers. how magical is that
October 9, 2025 at 4:14 PM
love this writeup & distinction between flavors of social media..
i think all the social media i have ever made (& what im after w playhtml) is about this gentle exchange of “i am here!”
we call out into the void and a stranger answers. how magical is that
i think all the social media i have ever made (& what im after w playhtml) is about this gentle exchange of “i am here!”
we call out into the void and a stranger answers. how magical is that
alive internet theory
We finally landed and Dan and I caught a cab to Manhattan together. Making social media social again!
October 9, 2025 at 4:05 PM
alive internet theory
Reposted by spencer chang
we want to publish your poetry, fiction, non-fiction, essays, graphic storytelling, and experiments that utilize the web as a medium! send your pitch to submissions@thehtml.review for the next issue of the html review
thehtml.review/about
thehtml.review/about
the html review — about
the html review is an annual journal of literature made to exist on the web
thehtml.review
October 8, 2025 at 8:15 PM
we want to publish your poetry, fiction, non-fiction, essays, graphic storytelling, and experiments that utilize the web as a medium! send your pitch to submissions@thehtml.review for the next issue of the html review
thehtml.review/about
thehtml.review/about
wrote about one of my favorite art pieces
news.spencer.place/p/the-visitors
news.spencer.place/p/the-visitors
the visitors
an ode to a departing piece of art
news.spencer.place
September 28, 2025 at 6:10 PM
wrote about one of my favorite art pieces
news.spencer.place/p/the-visitors
news.spencer.place/p/the-visitors