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.
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"
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. #InternetHistory #WebDesign
โ€œRemix is moving on from React [โ€ฆ] Remix v3 is a completely new thing. It's our fresh take on simplified web development with its own rendering abstraction in place of React.โ€ ๐Ÿ“ƒ.md ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘ ๐Ÿ‘ (via @Alex Russell and @npub1dqh3...w6fv)
How is it possible that the UK government web team is so cool and Onto It, but I spend half my days calling other UK govt departments on the phone, being on hold for 45 minutes and/or talking to bots who get things wrong, and when I finally talk to a human they say I need to call another number. Anyway, great to see 11ty being used in this way.
Greg has made the jump from Bluesky to Mastodon, and he wrote up his explanation here:
Back in 1997, the browser plugin RealPlayer became synonymous with "buffering" โ€” which for 90s web users meant constant, annoying delays in streaming a video online (usually over dial-up). Funnily enough though, the buffering epidemic didn't dampen the HYPE for online video streaming that year. Wired magazine even declared that RealVideo was leading a โ€œwar with TV.โ€ And you thought AI hype was bad... #InternetHistory #VideoStreaming
Apparently 86% of websites have โ€œLow Contrast Textโ€, making it the most common #accessibility issue (even more than missing alt text). Iโ€™m quite surprised by this, as I thought most websites still have white background with black type. Maybe itโ€™s a font size thing in many casesโ€ฆAnybody have more info on this issue?