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When Future Historian Comes To 1910
David Friedman discovers a 1910 New York Times column featuring a time-traveling Future Historian who shares his name, a…
When Random Isn't
A decade-old story of how a supposedly random number generator turned out to be predictable, told as a security detectiv…
Where Did the Old Web Go?
A crawl of over 650,000 links from 2009 to 2014 reveals how much of the old web has vanished, with breakdowns of what di…
Where Have All the Websites Gone?
An essay asking whether the quirky, personal websites of the late 2000s really vanished or whether we just stopped looki…
Who Are Nerds
A funny, sharp essay by Rosa Lyster in the independent magazine Popula about her long-running irritation with nerds and…
Who Asked the Little Fluffy Clouds Question?
A music detective story that tracks down the interviewer whose question to Rickie Lee Jones about childhood skies was sa…
Who's Received a Black Bar on Hacker News
A living list of notable people who earned the black bar on Hacker News after they died, compiled with dates and links t…
Why Chinese Is So Damn Hard
A well-known essay by David Moser on why learning Chinese is so difficult for English speakers, covering the characters,…
Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?
A tongue-in-cheek design essay comparing the soft radial logos of AI companies and asking why they all resemble the same…
Why is 56k the fastest dialup modem speed?
A clear, nostalgic explanation of why dial-up modems topped out at 56k, covering phone line bandwidth, sampling limits a…
Why You Hate Comic Sans
An essay on why Comic Sans draws so much scorn, looking at the child-like handwriting font's infamy and the movement bui…
Wikipedia - Random Article
A link that sends you to a completely random article on the free English-language encyclopedia.
Windows 98 Icons Are Great
A nostalgic look at why the utilitarian pixel icons of Windows 98 still look wonderful, with plenty of examples and an a…
Windshield Pitting Epidemic of 1954
A HistoryLink account of the 1954 wave of mysterious pits and dings in car windshields across Washington State and the m…
Words
A minimalist essay arguing that written content should come before design and that words are the web's most powerful too…
Worst of Breed
A deadpan satire of enterprise design patterns and tech horror, here walking through the business-critical Excel spreads…
Writing Slowly
A reflective post from the Writing Slowly blog on Walter Benjamin and the obsolete book, touching on footnotes, hyperlin…
Yesterweb
A community project and manifesto advocating for a more personal, creative old-style internet, with essays, a webring, a…
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