Lou Montulli, a former engineer with Netscape, writes about the origins of the blink tag. It seems that it was a lament for the lack of features in text-based browsers. Back in 1994 I was a found...
https://www.davekellam.com/2015/01/origins-of-the-blink-tag/
An excerpt from Tim Berners-Lee’s post to comp.sys.next.announce concerning the release of the WorldWideWeb app: This project is experimental and of course comes without any warranty whatsoever...
https://www.davekellam.com/2012/02/the-newsgroup-post-announcing-the-worldwideweb-app/
Ben Goldacre for The Guardian on linking to the original source of material (via df). Why don’t journalists link to primary sources? Whether it’s a press release, an academic journal article,...
https://www.davekellam.com/2011/03/link-to-original-sources/
It’s possible that we may see work from the old Swanky and Swankarmy crew — the old archives have been found. From a tweet by Dustin Vannatter: I found a series of 20+ CDs that contain a fs d...
Colm O’Regan examines the constant stream of things that demand our attention. I’m not sure if he made up divided attention disorder, but I was amused by the analogy to tabbed browsing. It’...
Randall from xkcd has posted an updated version of the Map of Online Communities for 2010. It’s also available full size for extra goodness.
https://www.davekellam.com/2010/10/map-of-online-communities/
The Original Marble & Granite Co. Ltd. is based out of Hoddesdon in Hertfordshire. They don’t have a website and are probably not aware of the sheer internet greatness of their name. The photo ...
https://www.davekellam.com/2010/10/original-marble-and-granite-co/
John Goerzen has archived Gopherspace (all 40gb) and made it available as a 15gb compressed torrent. Gopher was around in the 1990s before the World Wide Web, it was similar, but not hyperlinked....
A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter is a piece of artwork by Caleb Larson that perpetually tries to sells itself. Every ten minutes the black box pings a server on the internet via the ethernet conne...