Archive for the 'internet' Category

“The room was filled with the noise of bells, and speaking-tubes. What was the new food like? Could she recommend it? Had she any ideas lately? Might one tell her one’s own ideas?”

I think the Internet really came into its own in August 1998, with the birth of the Hamster Dance, which is older than Slashdot.

How much does Larry Roberts look exactly like Ben Kingsley in Sneakers in this photo?

"We have set up a system to send documents by the email, to the addresses you provide, 6 days after the 'Rapture' of the Church. This occurs when 3 of our 5 team members scattered around the U.S fail to log in over a 3 day period."

The best single resource online for finding usable legacy browsers, including standalone versions of Internet Explorer, which usually overwrites older versions upon installation.

A good overview of ways to make your site more accessible to a larger number of people. It's worth noting that many of these methods are also just basically good practice as far as building well-formed sites goes, and that makes search engines happy.

CSS allows for almost complete separation of content from presentation, a common ideal for web designers. It allows for greater flexibility and simplicity in development and accessibility. CSS is simple to write but syntactically distinct from HTML.

XHTML is an implementation of HTML using the XML spec. It is stricter in its syntax, more easily parsed by both software and people, and is in many ways easier to learn because of its strictness.

A level of abstraction above HTML, XML is a "specification for creating custom markup languages." XML's predecessor (SGML - Standard Generalized Markup Language) predates the WWW and provided some of the basis for HTML.

Comprehensive article on the history, syntax and varieties of HTML. Of particular interest is the "Hypertext features not in HTML" section.

Nice interactive timeline of the history of the major browsers.

"On the other hand, the coveted emotional center was reliable, it was predictable, and its story lines could be duplicated over and over. It reassured the audience by telling it what it already knew rather than challenging it to learn."

Its amazing that it took 2 and a half years to only run through the first 100. I mean, who the hell cared back then, but still. Were these prohibitively expensive back then, or just next to useless?

Scroll down and click on the little wheelchair fellow at the captcha. Sound on! via projectionist.