Bookmarks
A curated collection of links, articles, and resources I've found worth sharing. Browse by topic using the tags below, or follow along via RSS.
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Statistically obsessed
Measure, analyze, check your stats, take a look at the insights. Whether you are running a business website, a personal blog, a Twitter account or a Facebook page, there is someone breathing down your neck asking about the numbers...
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Underscores, Optimization & Arms Races - Anil Dash
A dozen years ago, the web started to reshape itself around major companies like Google. We can understand the genesis of today’s algorithmic arms race against the tech titans just by looking at a single character...
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Hunting the Nearly-Invisible Personal Website
Cheapskates goes hunting. The personal website is a somewhat mysterious animal that lives mostly unobserved in the jungle of the Internet
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A love letter to my website - DESK Magazine
A declaration of love for personal websites.
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One Terabyte of Kilobyte Age | Digging through the Geocities Torrent
Digging through the Geocities Torrent
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Ruins and Templates of Geocities
The free web hosting service GeoCities was founded by Beverly Hills Internet in July 1995, which exactly corresponds with the moment that the web left academia and started to become accessible to everyone. Users began learning Hyper Text Markup Language, and welcomed each other onto their “home pages” — the first personal websites,
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GeoCities, webrings, and the cozy connectedness of the ‘90s internet
How GeoCities webrings made the ‘90s internet a cozier place.
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sadgrl | There's no place like the old internet
I started on the Internet back in 1996. Sadness came later. In this blog post she explores what the old web looks like compared to the new web.
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I Made a Linguistics Professor Listen to a Blink-182 Song and Analyze the Accent
A linguistics professors analysis of the american pop punk accent. Great read.
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Make your own independent website
Victoria shares how to make 2021 the year of the independent web....
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manifesto
The page that started a... something... We, the people of the Internet, have the power to restore it to its former glory.
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Blogging and me
Ana reflects on how blogging has been part of her life since the early 2000s.
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Overthinking my blog
Ana starts to over think her blog and needs to get it back on track.
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Overthinking my nostalgia
Ana reflects on her nostalgia for the old web and what she can learn from it.
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Letting Go of the Old Web
Desiree explores what gets us to build a website and tries to understand what a website actually is today.