i love that bruce damer has kept his homepage for the Avatars! virtual worlds book online for 30 uninterrupted years.
#webHistory
@grammargirl's interview with Doug Harper of etymonline.com is well worth a listen;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nswr96XGt7k
https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/grammar-girl/
They talk briefly about the origins of the site. Where Harper mentions how much easier it was to establish a website as a landmark when the web was new, and how crowded the landscape has become since.
Ein sehr interessanter Vortrag zur Geschichte des frühen Webs, den die Kolleg*innen vom @ZZF gehalten haben. Unbedingt einmal reinschauen! #DigitalHistoryOFK
So Vimeo is also going to close https://mastodon.social/@kottke/115979240241733454 which means that YouTube remains the only general public video platform on the web today among those born in the mid-2000s. I remember Blip.tv https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blip.tv that closed in 2015, which had better features than YouTube and Vimeo at the time
https://cubicgarden.com/2015/01/22/blip-tv-does-good-on-its-promise-to-archive/
It allowed the use of Creative Commons licenses and the automatic cross-posting of videos to the Internet Archive.
#webhistory
bleem!.com in october 2000 😎
for anyone who doesn't remember bleem: it was a very early PSX emulator that would let you play certain playstation games on your DreamCast or in Windows.
it got sued out of existence by sony a year later.
🔖 Bookmarked: Static sites killed the blog comment star, but maybe old tech and a smaller web can resurrect them https://www.thisdaysportion.com/posts/static-sites-killed-comments/
This Day’s Portion argues that the move to static sites didn’t just simplify publishing, but quietly stripped away comment sections and the everyday conversations that once lived on personal blogs.
🔖 Bookmarked: 30 Years of <br> Tags https://www.artmann.co/articles/30-years-of-br-tags
Artmann looks back on 30 years of the <br> tag, reflecting on how a tiny bit of HTML has shaped writing and layout on the web.
🔥 Read more: https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/30-years-of-lessbrgreater-tags/
On Christmas Day, 1990, the first successful communication between an HTTP client and server occurred. The packets were delivered by Santa himself!
On this day in 1990, Tim Berners-Lee released the first web browser, WorldWideWeb, laying the groundwork for the modern internet! 🚀 This innovation transformed how we access information and connect with one another. #WebHistory #Innovation #WorldWideWeb
🔖 Bookmarked: One moment, please... https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/what-happened-to-the-comment-section/
The History of the Web looks at how comment sections changed over time, from lively, hosted discussions to disappearing or outsourced feeds under social platforms.
🔥 Read more: https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/one-moment-please/
🔖 Bookmarked: Early web memories - roundup post https://winther.sysctl.dk/early-web-memories-roundup-post/
Winther rounds up early web memories from the recent Bear Blog Carnival - gutted I missed this as it was happening!
🔥 Read more: https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/early-web-memories-roundup-post/
🔖 Bookmarked: Blogs used to be very different. https://jetgirl.art/blogs-used-to-be-very-different/
Jetgirl looks back at how blogs used to work, from tight-knit communities to slower, more personal writing, and how different that feels compared to today.
🔥 Read more: https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/blogs-used-to-be-very-different/
Erin Malone — author, design historian, and Chair of Interaction Design at CCA — discusses building Kodak’s first website in the mid-1990s and gives a look at that site, now preserved in the #WaybackMachine.
History or "archeology"?
1995 text web page about e-zine.
Browsable with text based browser.
http://web.textfiles.com/ezines/publish.txt
Some people watch TV, play games, go for a walk... to kill time. Others watch 30 year-old presentations to Brampton City Council of the Ontario city's new website while wandering around the archived website itself.
"We've been innovative and we've kept our consumer in mind. That's a small map. So click on that and you get a large version." (at 5:39)
It's nice to see the speaker using Netscape.
https://archive.org/details/bramptons-world-wide-web-page-1996
https://web.archive.org/web/19970407042855/http://www.city.brampton.on.ca/edo_main.htm
🔖 Bookmarked: My first months in cyberspace https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2025/10/15/1995-internet/
Phil Gyford remembers the excitement and optimism of being online in 1995.
🔥 Read more: https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/my-first-months-in-cyberspace/
Help Aunt Teefa raise $1K for the Internet Archive!
In a time where preserving the history of our times is so important, the Wayback Machine has been instrumental in fighting fascism.
https://donate.archive.org/team/780785
#InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #DigitalPreservation #WebArchiving #ArchiveHistory #WebHistory #InternetHistory #SaveTheWeb #DigitalMemory #OnlineHistory #WebPreservation #ArchivingTheWeb
Check out Aunt Teefa's team fundraising page for the Internet Archive! Help her raise $1,000 for the Internet Archive.
In a time where preserving the history of our times is so important, the Wayback Machine has been instrumental in fighting fascism.
https://donate.archive.org/team/780785
#InternetArchive #WaybackMachine #DigitalPreservation #WebArchiving #ArchiveHistory #WebHistory #InternetHistory #SaveTheWeb #DigitalMemory #OnlineHistory #WebPreservation #ArchivingTheWeb
🚀 Wow, groundbreaking news! Tor Browser removes all the AI fluff from Firefox, because who needs modern features when you have clandestine browsing to do? 🕵️♂️ It's like they're taking a time machine back to when browsers were just glorified text readers. 📜🔍
https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-150a4/ #TorBrowser #AIFluff #Removal #ClandestineBrowsing #TechNews #WebHistory #HackerNews #ngated
🔖 Bookmarked: RSS: A Well Formed Log Entry - The History of the Web https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/rss-well-formed-log-entry/
An older one from Jay Hoffmann who revisits the early days of RSS, tracing how a simple log fromat evolved into one of the web’s most enduring standards for syndication
🔥 Read more: https://flamedfury.com/bookmarks/rss-a-well-formed-log-entry-the-history-of-the-web/
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