Links tagged with “via:webcurios”
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“Was it just one enormous cheese dream?” On Mike Read’s Heritage Chart Show | by Pete Paphides | Mar, 2024 | Medium
I haven’t watched this but the description is great. (via Web Curios)
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The Cheap Web
“The websites of Patrick Colison, Edward Tufte, and Phil Gyford are thriving examples of cozy HTML cabins.” (via Web Curios)
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When One Grows Tired of Cyberdog - The Fence
Clive Martin on Camden. (via Web Curios)
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Television: one of the most audacious pranks in history was hidden in a hit TV show for years.
I love this – so 1990s – but also, if it was “like a virus”, it was a virus that no one noticed and had no effect on anything. (via Web Curios)
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30 Years of Writing on the Internet - Longreads
On how internet writing is never reviewed, or treated seriously, until it’s in book form. A bit like internet video not being as “proper” as TV. (via Web Curios)
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Product design & UX design resources – Degreeless.Design
Assuming these are good resources, I love things like this. Suggested sites and books to learn about design, starting with the basics. (via Web Curios)
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I Don’t Want to Be an Internet Person
”Eventually, we will stop pretending that the internet is a sideshow and that our real culture, the better culture, is somewhere else.” (via Web Curios)
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The Overedge Catalog: The Future of Research Organizations
“devoted to collecting the intriguing new types of organizations and institutions that lie at the intersection of the worlds of research and academia, non-profits, and tech startups.” (via Web Curios)
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Me, But Online
“A collection of minimalist, original personal websites with great typography.” (via Web Curios)
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90sartschool • Instagram
Just photos of people at art school in the 1990s. The clothes, the posters, the old photo colours, the way people behaved in photos then, the cool. (via Web Curios)
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Onlooker Postcards | Flickr
Fantastic collection of postcards that all feature a person looking out at the view. Oddly eerie. (via Web Curios)
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Processed World
Archive of a magazine created by temp workers in San Francisco’s financial district in the 1980s. (via Web Curios)
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Graphic Design History Resources - We Made This
Links to loads of sites that contain loads of lovely graphic design images, put together by Alistair Hall. (via Web Curios)
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404PageFound – Active Vintage Websites, Old Webpages, and Web 1.0
Lots of old sites that are still live. (via Web Curios)
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Snub TV (UK) - YouTube
All the episodes of this 1989-91 show which I assume I watched, given I watched a lot of Def II. (via Web Curios)
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Place-based carbon calculator
It was interesting to spend a while poking around at the stats for our area. Lots of overlays and things to look at. Generally, our area’s below average. (via Web Curios)
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Web Badges World | The ultimate archive of 80x15 pixel button art
One for the old nostalgic web folk. (via Web Curios)
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LadBaby and the wild rise of the Facebook Famous | WIRED UK
Mainly interesting for the differences between famous creators and the types of content on different platforms. (also via Web Curios)
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Play to Lose — Real Life
A similar theme to the previous, the financialisation of everything, but from a different point of view. NFTs, crypto, Wall Street Bets, etc as “revenge capitalism”, supporting not fighting capitalism. (via Web Curios)
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The Great Online Game - Not Boring by Packy McCormick
There’s something true in here about how the world does or can work for some people, wrapped up in a lot of horrible crypto business awfulness. (via Web Curios, who said much the same)
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The Kitchen Bladesmith - Craftsmanship Magazine
Long article about a man who makes knives, what makes knives sharp, what makes them easier to sharpen, etc. (via Web Curios)
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The Absurdity is the Point - Galaxy Brain
A decent attempt to try and describe the weirdness of the current state of internet / crypto / meme news. “Personally, it scrambles my brain.” (via Web Curios)
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Map of Reddit
I love maps of the internet. (via Web Curios)