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Wait, what's a bookmarklet?
How this one small browser quirk turned into a tool used by countless people for decades.
The History of the Web
This project is my decade-long journey through web history. What began as a simple timeline has evolved into an intricate […]
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The web’s most important decision
I got a bit caught up this month, so I had to delay a couple of things, but I’ll be […]
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AOL pretends to be the internet
In 1994, Ted Leonsis was the head of the new media marketing firm he created, Redgate Communications, spun out six […]
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How We Got the Favicon (2017)
The favicon was a total experiment, the result of a bit of serendipity and luck.
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It’s 1997 and you want to build a website
You have a few options. How much time you got?
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The first thing that ever sold online was pizza (2018)
If you happened to live in Santa Cruz in 1994 you could sit down at your computer, open up your […]