➠ July 17, 2009
➠ March 2, 2009
➠ November 5, 2008
➠ September 30, 2008
Google 2001
In celebration of their tenth birthday, Google have resuscitated their search index from January 2001. Ah, the good old days, when “ROD BEGBIE IN VIRGIN SNOG SHOCKER!” turned up on the second page of results for my egosurf.
➠ March 26, 2008
Abyss & Apex : Wikihistory
“Take it easy on the kid, SilverFox316; everybody kills Hitler on their first trip. I did. It always gets fixed within a few minutes, what’s the harm?”
➠ February 10, 2008
ongoing: XML People
Fascinating account of the people (and corporations) involved in the creation of XML (which was published ten years ago today)
➠ November 17, 2007
Swap Adjacent Gems to Make Sets of Three: A History of Matching Tile Games
A brief history of Bejeweled and similar “casual” games.
➠ August 26, 2007
The Lemmings Story
Creation of one of the best video games of all time. They’re absolutely right about the perfection of the learning curve in the first game.
➠ January 16, 2007
Basing the Design of History on the User's Memory
Really interesting concepts in changing the history tab in Firefox (which is currently near useless for finding something you remember from a couple of days ago).
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