Tim Berners-Lee Invented the World Wide Web. Now He Wants to Save It | The New Yorker
A profile of Tim and the World World Web.
The Man Who Invented The Web - TIME
This seventeen year old profile of Tim Berners-Lee is fascinating to read from today’s perspective.
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Jeremy Keith – Of Time And The Web – border:none 2023 - YouTube
Here’s the video of the talk I gave in Nuremberg recently.
CSS Timeline
Here’s a remarkably in-depth timeline of the web’s finest programming language, from before it existed to today’s thriving ecosystem. And the timeline is repsonsive too—lovely!
The web is a miracle
I wonder what kinds of conditions would need to be true for another platform to be built in a similar way? Lots of people have tried, but none of them have the purity of participation for the love of it that the web has.
A Short History of Bi-Directional Links
A wonderful look at the kind of links we didn’t get on the World Wide Web.
From the memex and Xanadu right up to web mentions, this ticks all my boxes!
(And can I just say, it’s so much fun to explore all of Maggie Appleton’s site …or should I say web garden.)
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A long-awaited talk
Remy and I gave a talk at Brighton’s Async meetup …five years after we were originally booked in.
Browser history
From a browser bug this morning, back to the birth of hypertext in 1945, with a look forward to a possible future for web browsers.
A curl in every port
Postel’s port numbers.
Web talk
How we built How We Built The World Wide Web In Five Days in more than five days.
The ghost of browsers past
Delving into old-fashioned parsing rules.