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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.

theverge.com

Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring

The site’s volunteers face threats from Trump, billionaires, and AI.

karimjedda.com

We accidentally built the wrong internet

We built the internet on email & passwords—if someone pitched this today, we’d laugh them out of the room.

digitalsolitude.guillaumeslizewicz.com

A website for one person only

Only one person can use this site. If more than one user connects, it fails for everyone.

onemillionscreenshots.com

One million screenshots

Explore the web’s biggest homepage. Discover similar sites. See changes over time.

thehistoryoftheweb.com

We are still the web

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

benn.substack.com

Everyone is crazy now

This is not a precise theory, but man, what do we do even if the outline is true?

fika.bar

AI is eating the internet

An exploration of the internet to come.

simplesite.ayra.ch

A simple website

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

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.

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.

manuelmoreale.com

On browsers, AI, and the web

What in the world did The Browser Company just do?

internetphonebook.net

Internet phone book

An annual publication for exploring the vast poetic web.

tvwall.live

Live TV wall

International news channels for personalized viewing.

thehistoryoftheweb.com

1995 was the most important year for the web

The world changed a lot in 1995. And for the web, it was a transformational year.

culture.ghost.io

The age of the double sell-out

How we moved from a deep suspicion of commerce to an entire generation of creators who leverage the commercial market… to do even more commerce.

skins.webamp.org

Winamp skin museum

Infinite scroll through 80k Winamp skins with interactive previews.

onemillionscreenshots.com

One million screenshots

Explore the web’s biggest homepage. Discover similar sites. See changes over time. Get web data.

thingelstad.com

Ethical web principles

These principles are not merely theoretical; they constitute a call to action.

asteriskmag.com

The depths of Wikipedians

A conversation about yogurt wars, German hymns, tropical cyclones, and the people who make Wikipedia function.