#web-history

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Web development
fromCSS-Tricks
1 week ago

HTML Web Components Proposal From 1998 | CSS-Tricks

Web components and style encapsulation originated decades earlier, with proposals dating back to 1998, reflecting long-term development and historical context.
fromNature
2 weeks ago

The Internet is broken and the inventor of the World Wide Web wants to fix it

This Is for Everyone reads like a family newsletter: it tells you what happened, recounting the Internet's origin and evolution in great detail, but rarely explaining why the ideal of a decentralized Internet was not realized. Berners-Lee's central argument is that the web has strayed from its founding principles and been corrupted by profit-driven companies that seek to monetize our attention. But it's still possible to "fix the internet", he argues, outlining a utopian vision for how that might be done.
Books
Digital life
fromTheSavvyGamer
3 months ago

20 Websites That Secretly Shaped the Internet - TheSavvyGamer

Early niche websites and experiments shaped modern internet behavior, interfaces, and community norms that persist across today's platforms.
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