We Are Still the Web - The History of the Web
Twenty years ago, Kevin Kelly wrote an absolutely seminal piece for Wired. This week is a great opportunity to look back at it.
Where are all the banger blog posts?
You can see the impact of LLMs everywhere except the banger blog post statistics
The Miracle of Photography — The Millions
The two most revolutionary technological advances in human consciousness are the invention of writing and the form of photography.
A brief history of Mac firmware — Eclectic Lightt
From the Macintosh ROM of Classic days, to Open Firmware in Power Macs, and on to (U)EFI with Intel, and ending up with LLB and iBoot in Apple silicon Macs.
Personal website of Gwern Branwen
Personal website of Gwern Branwen (writer, self-experimenter, and programmer): topics: psychology, statistics, technology, deep learning, anime. This index page is a categorized list of Gwern.net pages.
Out of the Matrix: Early Days of the Web (1991)
30 years ago, the web emerged from the Matrix to change the world. But have we forgotten its original vision? Daniel Kehoe recalls the early days of the web.