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  1. Why RSS Never Really Died

    RSS never died; it quietly kept working while the rest of the web became more centralized, algorithmic, and controlled.

    deadparrotbbs.com/why-rss-neve

  2. 🚫📚 Oh no, blocking the Internet Archive is like trying to stop a tsunami with a colander while AI chuckles in the background. Meanwhile, the web's historical record gasps its last breath as the #EFF throws a party for its 35th—with free "Mission Accomplished" hats for all! 🎉🤦‍♂️
    eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/bloc #InternetArchive #35thAnniversary #DigitalPreservation #AIImpact #WebHistory #HackerNews #ngated

  3. Erin Malone — author, design historian, and Chair of Interaction Design at CCA — discusses building Kodak’s first website in the mid-1990s and gives a look at that site, now preserved in the #WaybackMachine.

    📝 More ⤵️
    blog.archive.org/2025/11/20/vo

    #Wayback1T #WebHistory

  4. Today I ran across @ricmac and his new, truly expansive piece on the history of (the admittedly centralized) GeoCities and its origins.

    I had a GeoCities site myself in the 90s (that is sadly lost to time now), and I didn't know all this wild history Richard dug up for this.

    A must-read if you're into the whole 90s early web thing: cybercultural.com/p/geocities-

    #GeoCities #HTML #90s #90sWeb #1990s #SmallWeb #BHI #BeverlyHillsInternet #history #WebHistory

  5. I know it's going around, but one of my big new hobbies is just randomly clicking on my bookmark for wiby.me/surprise, which sends you to a random web 1.0 website.

    It's fascinating. Websites pop up like this screengrab that's attached, a guy made a website and put a list of comic book characters in songs he documented on it.

    Really weird stuff, too.

    Old personal websites GALORE. Try it out - but beware, it's addictive. 😂

    #WebHistory #HTMLSites #PersonalWebsites #HTML #IndieWeb #EarlyWeb