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tonsky.me

In Loving Memory of Square Checkbox

History of checkboxes and radio buttons in user interfaces

solomon.io

Designer News is Dead

Designer News is dead. Designer News was an online community for product designers. For years it was the best forum to discuss designing software.

itsnicethat.com

Unearthing the origins of the world’s most hated font, Comic Sans

We delve into the history of the contentious font, uncovering the story of its creation and early uses.

mac40th.com

Happy 40th Birthday, Macintosh

A site showcasing every Macintosh desktop and portable Apple has ever made with hundreds of the photos.

waxy.org

The Quiet Death of Ello’s Big Dreams

Ello launched in 2014 with big dreams, but the artsy social network suddenly shut down last year.

retool.com

Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes

In 2007, a small team at Yahoo! briefly changed how we program the internet. This is their story.

uclab.fh-potsdam.de

ARETE — Visual History of the Latin Alphabet

Interactive visualization of the history of the latin alphabet, showing the temporal and formal relationships of the different scripts and typefaces.

tedium.co

10 Weird HTML Hacks That Shaped The Internet

From table hacks to CSS kludges, these are some of the techniques that helped web developers get their fancy pages on the internet.

core77.com

IBM’s Ingenious Solution for a Typewriter with Swappable Fonts

The standardized type of mechanical typewriter, which emerged around 1910, featured keys connected to individual typebars.

blog.computationalcomplexity.org

In the bad old days we had Punchcards. How did people deal with that?

In the fall of 1976 I started as a Freshman at SUNY Stony Brook intending to major in Math and Computer Science.

reuters.com

Disney’s 100 years: Meeting change with innovation

As Walt Disney Studios turns 100, investors worry it’s beginning to show its age.

neal.fun

Internet Artifacts

Browse through the old internet.

worldswritingsystems.org

The World’s Writing Systems

An index of the world's writing systems, sorted by time period.

cari.institute

CARI Index of Aesthetics

CARI, or Consumer Aesthetics Research Institute, is an online community dedicated to developing a visual lexicon of consumer ephemera.

logodesignlove.com

Game+Logo, video game logos

A growing compilation of video game logos.

logodesignlove.com

Logo Rewind

Logo Rewind is a book by Darren Leader that focuses on the visual language of Medieval design.

theverge.com

How the iMac saved Apple

Twenty-five years of the iMac.

erynwells.me

Netscape Meteors

I went on a small journey the last couple days to find the original Netscape Navigator “meteors” animation.

kottke.org

New Woodblock Prints of Hokusai’s Previously Unpublished “Book of Everything”

A team is carving woodblocks and creating prints from a series of previously unpublished drawings by legendary Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai.

looka.com

Barbie Logo: The Vibrant History of an Iconic Brand

The Barbie brand inspires countless young minds to be creative, independent, and unapologetic.