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i've accumulated a lot of links about the past and present state of the web. so i thought it would be easier to get my head around more usable if i broke it down by year to create a sort of:

T’INTERWEB TIMELINE

2026

Google Search as you know it is over says Tech Crunch •

Why are publishers blocking the Wayback Machine?

The Internet's Most-Read Tech Publications Have Lost 58% of Their Google Traffic Since 2024

A Website To End All Websites Henry (From Online)

2024

to nekoweb, or not to nekoweb, that is the question midnight solarium

Are We Watching The Internet Die? Where's Your Ed At

2023

The Internet Is About to Get Weird Again Anil Dash writes for Rolling Stone.

Google Made Me Ruin A Perfectly Good Website A Case Study On The AI-Generated Internet from The Luddite

2022

Mobile-First CSS: Is It Time for a Rethink? by Patrick Clancey published by alistapart.

2020

Rediscovering the Small Web by Parimal Satyal

A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden Maggie Appleton

2015

The Garden and the Stream: A Technopastoral Mike Caulfield

2012

The Web We Lost and Rebuilding the Web We Lost by Anil Dash.

2010

Responsive Web Design by Ethan Marcotte, published by A List Apart

2003

Using background-image to replace text Stopdesign

2002

Top Ten Web-Design Mistakes of 2002 (archived) from useit.com (Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox)

WaSP : Action : Campaigns : Browser Upgrade Campaign : Tips

tantek's Box Model Hack

99.9% of Websites Are Obsolete (archived) An excerpt from Forward Compatibility: Designing & Building With Standards By Jeffrey Zeldman, first published by Digital Web Magazine

IBM developerWorks: The Web's future: XHTML 2.0 (archived)

Revisiting "Table Layouts, Revisited" (archived from evolt.org)

Look Ma, No Tables glish.com CSS layout techniques (archived)

2001

Designing With Frames (archived) from webbedENVIRONMENTS by Jason Cranford Teague.

2000

Flash: 99% Bad Jakob Nielsen

1999

svg: is it flashier than flash? by moock (archived)

1998

Hypertext Gardens by Eastgate Systems

1996

Top 10 Mistakes in Web Design Jakob Nielsen

1995

Hypertext and Our Collective Destiny by Tim Berners-Lee