Revisiting why hyperlinks are blue. For anyone interested in the history of hypertext, the web or precursors to it
Don’t wear gloves when you handle old books. From the British Library: Whenever a manuscript is featured in the press or on television, we inevitably receive adverse comments about our failure ...
https://www.davekellam.com/2018/05/dont-wear-gloves-when-you-handle-old-books/
I just finished reading Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet by Claire L. Evans (h/t @boop). I thoroughly enjoyed it, and learned quite a bit. I’m also a sucker for...
A Toast to Your Health Toasting, or ‘drinking healths,’ was a longstanding tradition in English culture. The act of honoring another and drinking to their health was a way for English drinker...
https://www.davekellam.com/2015/06/getting-drunk-in-colonial-america/
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 interactive presentation about Kowloon Walled City from The Wall Street Journal.
The NYC Resistor hacker collective recently got an old PDP-11/34 up and running again. We rescued two PDP-11/34 computers and their associated equipment from a storage unit in the Bronx and have ...
https://www.davekellam.com/2014/05/on-booting-up-a-pdp-1134/
If you’re unable to make the trip to see it in person, Trinity College Dublin, has a digital version of the Book of Kells available for viewing.
Here’s a somewhat fluffy NYT Magazine piece from Daniel Engber, titled Who Made That Progress Bar? He credits it to an interface designer named Bob Stahl. I found this tidbit interesting: Myers...
The folks who’ve made things on the Internet since the 1990’s have had a kick out Zach Holman’s piece Only 90s Web Developers Remember This. For me, it was the 1×1.gif: 1×1.gif should hav...