My first months in cyberspace (Phil Gyford’s website)
This is a wonderfully evocative description of what it was like to go online 30 years ago.
2004 was the first year of the future
I enjoyed reading through these essays about the web of twenty years ago: music, photos, email, games, television, iPods, phones…
Much as I love the art direction, you’d never know that we actually had some very nice-looking websites back in 2004!
Related links
Pipe Dreams: The life and times of Yahoo Pipes
Yahoo PIpes was ahead of its time. Here’s a nostalgic retrospective by Glenn Fleishman.
Make Something Wonderful | Steve Jobs
This anthology of Steve Jobs interviews, announcements and emails is available to read for free as a nicely typeset web book.
The ‘Form’ Element Created the Modern Web. Was It a Big Mistake? | WIRED
Paul Ford:
The web was born to distribute information on computers, but the technology industry can never leave well enough alone. It needs to make everything into software. To the point that your internet browser is basically no longer a magical book of links but a virtual machine that can simulate a full-fledged computer.
Personal Websites as Self-Portraiture | starbreaker.org
What, then, is a personal website? It is precisely that, personal. It is a new kind of self-portraiture done not with pencils, charcoal, ink, or paint. Instead it is self-portraiture done in markup language, code, prose, images, audio, and video.
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