I’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 world’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 — Erwise, ViolaWWW and MidasWWW — 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...

).

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

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"

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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.

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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...

#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 @npub1pf4z...pgxq 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...