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dansinker.com

The amazing art of the video game marquee

The marquee back then had to do a lot of work, because the games themselves were all low resolution and blocky affairs.

addyosmani.com

A history of our browser

Chrome turns 17 this week, and it feels like a good time to reflect on how far we have come in terms of Chromes guiding principles.

theguardian.com

American ads of the 1930s—in pictures

The end of prohibition but also the start of the Great Depression and the looming threat of war. What a mix.

baldurbjarnason.com

The melancholy of history rhyming

The “AI” Bubble feels more like the all-encompassing wasteland that was the 2007 bubble in Iceland than anything else.

bradfrost.com

The history of themeable user interfaces

A full-ish history of user interfaces that can be themed to meet the opportunities and constraints of the time.

bdayrecap.com

Birthday headlines

What was happening in the world on the day you were born?

adobe.design

The evolution of five of Adobe’s iconic icons

How time and circumstance have transformed these legendary in-app symbols.

thehistoryoftheweb.com

We are still the web

They missed what was right in front of them. The audience.

win32.run

Windows XP Professional

If you're feeling nostalgic: Windows XP in the browser, but with a File System and comes with it, Programs.

aresluna.org

Frame of preference

A story of early Mac settings told by 10 emulators.

youtube.com

100 years of history in 100 films

A look at the past century through a cinematic lens.

simplesite.ayra.ch

A simple website

This website uses technologies not available at the time the content here is about.

youtube.com

Death of a fantastic machine

How economic forces have shaped what we see, from the earliest photography to the algorithms and AI of today.

spectrum.ieee.org

Why JPEGs still rule the web

Thirty years ago, the JPEG became the dominant way we share digital photos on the Internet.

stevejobsarchive.com

Stay hungry, stay foolish

20th anniversary of Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford commencement speech, a digitally enhanced version of the video, and some behind the scenes.

historicaltechtree.com

Historical tech tree

Interactive visualization of technological history.

deno.com

A brief history of JavaScript

In 30 years, JavaScript went from being a little scripting language to one of the world’s most popular.

softwareheritage.org

When memory was measured in kilobytes

Back when RAM was precious, clever code reigned. Take a peek into early computer vision’s elegant solutions.

youtube.com

Twiddling bits with Susan Kare

Susan Kare's journey, inspirations, and views on design and its evolution.

mythcloud.eu

MythCloud: the stories that shape us

Traditional and contemporary dimensions of shared mythologies.