By mid-2025, roughly 35% of newly published websites were classified as AI-generated or AI-assisted.

A major inflection point as the tech industry’s imperial mindset crumbles under intense social backlash.

A memorial to the weird little corners of the internet that lived on The Useless Web.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission.

The internet you grew up on isn’t dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is. A visual essay about what actually persists.

Thoughts after breakout at AC meeting.

You must imagine Sam Altman holding a knife to Tim Berners-Lee's throat.

An interactive journey through 30 years of the web.

An internet time capsule that will arrive once wifi reaches the moon.

How to win the war for the soul of the internet, and build the Web We Want.

From dial-up days to now, travel through Wikipedia's history.

A look at how I used shape vectors to achieve sharp, high-quality ASCII rendering.

To understand what’s next as software grows more intelligent, we look back on 20 years of interaction design.

The future of the web depends on simple, open standards.

Huge swathes of human knowledge are missing from the internet. By definition, generative AI is shockingly ignorant too.

When people stop visiting websites directly, they're filtering content through an opaque system.

Productized scapegoating—a reflection.

A deep dive into how thoughtful URL design can enhance usability, shareability, and performance.

A dynamic traceroute + an informative article about how the BGP routing protocol works and guides the shape of the Internet.

A zoomable map shows every page of every issue of BYTE: a monthly mainline of the entire personal computing universe.