GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet(cybercultural.com)

140 points by cheeaun 1 year ago | 71 comments

Google in 1999: Search engines escape the portal matrix(cybercultural.com)

24 points by speckx 1 year ago | 28 comments

What the Internet Was Like in 1998(cybercultural.com)

61 points by herbertl 1 year ago | 38 comments

Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996(cybercultural.com)

59 points by herbertl 1 year ago | 51 comments

2002: Last.fm and Audioscrobbler Herald the Social Web(cybercultural.com)

189 points by cdrnsf 10 months ago | 114 comments

Ashby's book "Introduction to Cybernetics" (2003)(pespmc1.vub.ac.be)

44 points by carapace 3 years ago | 1 comments

Only 90s Web Developers Remember This (2014)(zachholman.com)

469 points by throwup238 2 years ago | 351 comments

Zach Holman's humorous 2014 blog post reminiscing about 1990s web development tricks like nesting blink inside marquee tags.

AI's Dial-Up Era(wreflection.com)

441 points by nowflux 11 months ago | 395 comments

A Wreflection newsletter essay comparing the current state of AI to the dial-up era of the internet in 1995.

Celebrating 20 Years of MDN(developer.mozilla.org)

373 points by soheilpro 1 year ago | 52 comments

MDN blog post celebrating the 20th anniversary of MDN Web Docs, Mozilla's web developer documentation site.

Dead Internet Theory(kudmitry.com)

597 points by skwee357 9 months ago | 638 comments

A personal blog post by Dmitry Kudryavtsev reflecting on the Dead Internet Theory, starting from his experience browsing Hacker News.

The negative impact of mobile-first web design on desktop(nngroup.com)

680 points by skadamat 3 years ago | 414 comments

Nielsen Norman Group article arguing that mobile-first web designs cause usability problems on desktop through 'content dispersion': oversized images, text, and white space.

This is not the future(blog.mathieui.net)

581 points by ericdanielski 10 months ago | 309 comments

Blog post arguing against the 'this is the future, like it or not' framing for generative AI and other tech, asserting nothing is inevitable and modern technology is abusive.