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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Classic Web (@classicweb@indieweb.social)

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).

Now this is a detail I hadn’t known about the launch of Netscape Navigator in December 1994. From ‘Speeding the Net’, a 1998 book about Netscape by Quittner and Slatalla. #InternetHistory

"My website is ugly because I made it"

Good Internet

My website is ugly because I made it

If my mom wanted good art on her fridge, she could’ve purchased reprints of works by Vermeer, Lichtenstein, Wyeth, etc. But she didn’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.

Cybercultural

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...

#InternetHistory #WebDesign

“Remix is moving on from React […] 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.” 📃.md 👏 👏 👏 (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.

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David O'Brien (@se_davidobrien@mastodon.scot)

This looks interesting. A #GOVUK @11ty@neighborhood.11ty.dev plugin. https://x-govuk.github.io/govuk-eleventy-plugin/get-started/

Greg has made the jump from Bluesky to Mastodon, and he wrote up his explanation here:

Bluesky Business Model - Risk Factors | S2P :: Notes

Notes from Gregory Brown

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Gregory Brown (@skillstopractice@mastodon.social)

Left Bluesky after being one of its #1 fans because I had assumed that avoiding ad revenue was something they were doing *on principle* and then fo...

Back in 1997, the browser plugin RealPlayer became synonymous with "buffering" — 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 “war with TV.” And you thought AI hype was bad...

Cybercultural

The Age of Buffering: Video Streaming and Webcasts in 1997

During 1997, video streaming comes to web browsers through plug-ins like RealVideo, VDOLive and Microsoft's NetShow. David Bowie even attempts to '...

#InternetHistory #VideoStreaming

Apparently 86% of websites have “Low Contrast Text”, making it the most common #accessibility issue (even more than missing alt text). I’m quite surprised by this, as I thought most websites still have white background with black type. Maybe it’s a font size thing in many cases…Anybody have more info on this issue?

GAAD

GAAD

Thursday, May 15, 2025, help us celebrate the 14th Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD)! The purpose of GAAD is to get everyone talking, think...