Posts tagged “web history”

Ten years ago I registered this domain from my brother's couch in Clapham, fresh off the boat from Trinidad. The blog itself came a few months later. I grabbed screenshots of the old designs this morning -- they are gloriously funky.

Google appears to be hitting fundamental scaling limits, producing bizarre results and workarounds instead of a painful full recode. We've grown dependent on its godlike ability to find anything. What happens to how we use the web if Google simply doesn't scale?

Massive link dump covering Tim Berners-Lee's first browser, Jurassic 5, Ben Folds Five, Al-Qaeda golf course sniper panic, Dawson's Creek gay sex, Google Zeitgeist, brain cancer breakthroughs, Apple's OS X giveaway, and Tomato Nation. My topic-hopping is probably breaking Google's brain.

Buggy browsers drive me crazy. Netscape and Microsoft spent the 90s in a petty tag-inventing arms race, deliberately breaking compatibility and ignoring the W3C, leaving web developers like me stuck building every damn page twice. Business people are insane. Here endeth the bile.