Thread: History of <A> - Lobster Roll

History of the browser user-agent string (2011) (webaim.org)

L 4 pts 0 comments by spinda Nov 23, 2014 browsersweb Web Development Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Telling stories with your Git history (about.futurelearn.com)

L 9 pts 3 comments by sebjacobs Mar 26, 2015 vcsweb Web Development Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Alternate History (gist.github.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by pushcx Jun 5, 2015 practicesprogrammingweb Web Development Programming (General)Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Technical History of Snowdrift.coop (snowdrift.coop)

L 7 pts 0 comments by pushcx Oct 8, 2015 haskellprogrammingweb Web Development Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

“Tomato” versus “#FF6347”—the tragicomic history of CSS color names (arstechnica.com)

L 11 pts 0 comments by tedu Oct 13, 2015 designpracticesunixweb Web Development Systems / Low-Level / OS Design / UX / Visualization Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Tim Berners-Lee's Proposal for the Web (1989) (info.cern.ch)

L 10 pts 1 comments by pushcx Feb 16, 2016 historicalweb Web Development Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

A 3-D Interface for Gopher (tomeri.org)

L 5 pts 0 comments by friendlysock Feb 27, 2016 graphicshistoricalweb Web Development Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Hypertext: an Educational Experiment in English & Computer Science at Brown University: Andy van Dam (archive.org)

L 2 pts 0 comments by kartik May 4, 2016 compscihistoricalvideoweb Web Development Programming Languages / CS Theory Science / Math / Physics Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Hypermedia: How the WWW fell short (wilfred.me.uk)

L 8 pts 1 comments by Wilfred Jun 13, 2016 historicalweb Web Development Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Ev Williams is The Forrest Gump of the Internet (theatlantic.com)

L 7 pts 5 comments by adsouza Jun 19, 2016 historicalpersonweb Web Development Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading Internet / Digital Culture thread

The Languages Which Almost Became CSS (eager.io)

L 65 pts 10 comments by binarymax Jun 28, 2016 browserscsshistoricalweb Web Development Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

History of <A> (adactio.com)

L 12 pts 1 comments by flyingfisch Jul 6, 2016 historicalweb Web Development Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth (eager.io)

L 8 pts 0 comments by av Jul 19, 2016 web Web Development Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The End of Gmane? (lars.ingebrigtsen.no)

L 22 pts 5 comments by cnst Jul 28, 2016 devopshistoricalpracticesweb Web Development Data / Databases / Infrastructure Productivity / Career / Business Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Via http://marc.info/?l=git&m=146972615206372

The new oldest .io domain (blog.park.io)

L 28 pts 8 comments by mikec Aug 3, 2016 historicalweb Web Development Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

CSS mix-blend-mode is bad for your browsing history (lcamtuf.blogspot.com)

L 15 pts 1 comments by calvin Aug 5, 2016 privacysecurityweb Web Development Security / Privacy Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

25 years ago the world changed forever (w3.org)

L 6 pts 0 comments by flyingfisch Aug 10, 2016 historicalweb Web Development Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Guido van Rossum wrote a Python bot that mapped out the web in 1993, and found 50-60 sites (1997.webhistory.org)

L 20 pts 2 comments by calvin Sep 15, 2016 historicalpythonweb Web Development Programming (General)Programming Languages / CS Theory Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Histography, an interactive timeline of all history (histography.io)

L 5 pts 0 comments by curiositry Sep 23, 2016 artdesignjavascriptvisualizationweb Web Development Design / UX / Visualization Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

25 years of HyperCard—the missing link to the Web (arstechnica.com)

L 7 pts 0 comments by majjoha Oct 17, 2016 browsershistoricalmacweb Web Development Apple / macOS / iOS Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The original proposal of the WWW, HTMLized (w3.org)

L 4 pts 0 comments by majjoha Oct 25, 2016 distributedhistoricalnetworkingweb Web Development Data / Databases / Infrastructure Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Popularity (2008) (brendaneich.com)

L 1 pts 0 comments by calvin Nov 11, 2016 historicaljavascriptweb Web Development Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Internet Archive Backup (iabak.archiveteam.org)

L 4 pts 0 comments by mjturner Nov 16, 2016 historicalweb Web Development Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading Internet / Digital Culture thread

> This is an experimental project to see the feasibility and issues with making a backup of the Internet Archive. This project should be considered to be in an alpha state. To read the original document suggesting the research, click here. Implementation ideas are discussed on this page. If you hav...

The GeoCities Cage at Exodus Communications (detritus.org)

L 6 pts 0 comments by calvin Nov 25, 2016 hardwarehistoricalweb Web Development Maker / DIY / Hardware Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Tricking the user to access history using CSS and captchas (frantzmiccoli.github.io)

L 7 pts 4 comments by curiositry Dec 10, 2016 browserssecurityweb Web Development Security / Privacy Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

The World Wide Web project - The first web site (line-mode.cern.ch)

L 10 pts 0 comments by av Jan 10, 2017 historicalweb Web Development Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

If You See Something, Save Something – 6 Ways to Save Pages In the Wayback Machine (blog.archive.org)

L 19 pts 0 comments by pizzaiolo Jan 28, 2017 historicalweb Web Development Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

A great disturbance in the force (imdb boards no more) (beatworm.co.uk)

L 23 pts 7 comments by brynet Feb 7, 2017 historicalperlweb Web Development Programming (General)Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

Chrome extension to check your history for Cloudflare sites (chrome.google.com)

L 8 pts 3 comments by av Feb 26, 2017 browserssecurityweb Web Development Security / Privacy Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

This is my first Chrome Extension and also first Javascript project. I haven't done anything major with Javascript earlier. The code is open source and I really appreciate if you have any feedback regarding code or functionality. If you have a feature request, then do open a PR. Github link - ...

DMOZ is shutting down. Would you volunteer to make a revival? (goo.gl)

L 3 pts 0 comments by sebst Mar 1, 2017 askculturehistoricalweb Web Development Culture / Philosophy / History / Reading thread

AOL will close DMOZ by mid of March. DMOZ has been a dinosaur of the "old internet age". Maybe curated directories are not relevant anymore, but maybe there is a chance for a revival with a directory adapted to the modern internet age. What do you think? And would you like to contribute?