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The Exact Location Where the Web Was Invented
A bit of web-history detective work that pins down the exact building and office at CERN where Tim Berners-Lee invented…
The First Apple Homepage
Kevin Fox digs up what may be Apple's earliest homepage from the early 1990s and walks through its screenshot, links and…
The History of Web Design
An interactive timeline of how websites have looked and worked, from the first text pages through table layouts, Flash a…
The Oldest Surviving HTML Files
The raw source and rendered contents of the oldest surviving HTML files from November 1990, showing what the very first…
The Pastinter.net Directory
A searchable directory of more than 70,000 historical URLs featured in printed internet directory books of the 1990s, wi…
The Vintage Web
A curated showcase of old websites that have aged like fine wine, for visitors who miss the days when the internet was p…
The Zombocom Problem
An essay using the old joke site Zombocom, where you can do anything, to ask why unlimited freedom in software often lea…
Upcoming.org Archive
A preserved archive of the Upcoming.org events community from 2003 to 2013 - over seven million gigs, meetups and confer…
Upsideclown
A long-running online writing collective whose members took turns publishing short stories, sketches and essays, with an…
Web and HyperText History
A timeline of the history of the web and hypertext, tracing the ideas and milestones from early visions of linked inform…
Web Design Museum
A curated archive of thousands of screenshots documenting how famous websites and interfaces looked and evolved from the…
Web Rewind
An interactive journey through 30 years of the web, built by Opera, that revisits the sites, trends, and moments that sh…
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…
WorldWideWeb Rebuild
CERN's faithful browser-based recreation of Tim Berners-Lee's original 1990 WorldWideWeb browser, letting you surf today…
Zombo
An HTML5 revival of Zombocom, the classic joke site that promises you can do anything, with its trademark welcome and en…
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