In 1997, the first browser war began amid new internet trends like 'push' and DHTML. Meanwhile, instant messaging apps like ICQ and AIM became popular and GeoCities achieved 1 million users.
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What the Internet Was Like in 1997
In 1997, the first browser war begins amid new internet trends like 'push' and DHTML. Meanwhile, instant messaging apps like ICQ and AIM become pop...
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Here's my writeup of #FediForum, in which I ask the question: is the fediverse making meaningful progress vs. centralized platforms? The post includes [@_elena](
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Elena Rossini โ‚ (@_elena@mastodon.social)
681 Posts, 449 Following, 10.4K Followers ยท Italian filmmaker, photographer and writer based in Paris, France who โค๏ธ #FOSS ๐ŸŽฌ Director of...
 )'s excellent video and has discussion of @npub1urx3...v0z4's presentation, Bounce (by @npub1zzy7...9edy & [@snarfed.org](
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 )), Surf (by [@mike](
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CEO, Co-founder Flipboard. I love design, startups, exploration, photo journalism and classic wooden boats. Also posting at @mike@flipboard.social
 ) & [@marci](
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Marci McCue (@marci) on Flipboard
Working at Flipboard. Born and raised in the Bay Area. Believe that voter registration is the path to true representation and that fact-based journ...
 )), Channels.org (by @npub1qm36...d0q6 & @npub1dadl...y568 team), & Bandwagon (by @npub17gq5...8hhz). Thx also @npub1dvxe...gems & @npub1yazx...h0xs for FediForum. The headline is via Christine: "we canโ€™t succeed without joy." https://thenewstack.io/bringing-joy-back-to-the-web-fediverse-vs-centralized-apps/
Iโ€™m sure we will hear a lot about Bill Atkinson (RIP) over the next few days, but I want to point out the huge influence of #HyperCard on the Web. @npub1rknc...cdxd himself mentioned it in his original WWW proposal (
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1990: Programming the World Wide Web
In the final few months of 1990, Tim Berners-Lee and his CERN colleague Robert Cailliau develop the worldโ€™s first browser, create the HTML markup...
), early web browsers like ViolaWWW were modeled on HyperCard (
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1992: The Web vs Gopher, and the First External Browsers
Three non-CERN web browsers are released over 1992 โ€” Erwise, ViolaWWW and MidasWWW โ€” at a time when there are less than 20 websites in the worl...
), and even JavaScript owed a debt to it (HyperCard included an object oriented scripting language called HyperTalk;
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1995: The Birth of JavaScript
JavaScript is invented in a two-week flurry in May 1995 by Brendan Eich, a newly hired developer at browser company Netscape. The idea is to extend...
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Every time I have to google this... I guess they had to come up with something to shortcut forcing a linebreak, but it never sticks in my head. #Markdown image
If anyone has other ideas for #ClassicFedi screenshots, let me know! I figure it'd be good to show some of the history that eventually led to the #Fediverse and the #FediForum event this week.
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Attached: 1 image On 16 June 2003, Sam Ruby wrote a blog post describing "a well-formed log entry." This helped inspire a new web syndication form...
We're now in the "Ashton Kutcher Invests in..." stage of the AI era. I remember when this happened with Web 2.0 (I haven't yet seen an "MC Hammer Invests in..." email, though). image
Now this is a detail I hadnโ€™t known about the launch of Netscape Navigator in December 1994. From โ€˜Speeding the Netโ€™, a 1998 book about Netscape by Quittner and Slatalla. #InternetHistory image
"My website is ugly because I made it"
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My website is ugly because I made it
If my mom wanted good art on her fridge, she couldโ€™ve purchased reprints of works by Vermeer, Lichtenstein, Wyeth, etc. But she didnโ€™t want goo...
I look back on the 3 musketeers of web design in the 1990s: Jeffrey Zeldman, David Siegel, and Jakob Nielsen. Each had a distinct web design philosophy (and if you read till the end, you'll discover which one I believe 'won' in the long term). I focus in particular on 1997, which is when Flash and CSS emerged. But I also look back on the careers of the 3 gurus from our 2025 perspective.
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The 3 Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen
With the rise of Flash and CSS in 1997, three web design philosophies emerge. David Siegel advocates for 'hacks', Jakob Nielsen keeps it simple, wh...
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