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vga256<p>just found a treasure trove of extremely obscure BBS history stashed away on IA</p><p>thank you hard-working book scanners for preserving this rarity. </p><p>if you're familiar with BBSing in the 90s, you'll remember just how fast the vast majority of boards disappeared in 1995. it went from multinode 24/7 bbses to disconnected phone numbers in just a few months</p><p>this book accounts for the very small number of BBSes that made the transition from telco-only to "telBBS" or telnettable/web-accessible boards</p><p>3/4 of the book is a carefully curated list of 500 boards with screenshots of their homepages and bbs login/title screens. most importantly, the URLs of these boards is preserved so we have a chance to look them up on WBM some day.</p><p><a href="https://archive.org/details/internetbbss00rich" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">archive.org/details/internetbb</span><span class="invisible">ss00rich</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/bbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bbs</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/webHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webHistory</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/smallweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href="https://dialup.cafe/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a></p>
Doctor M. Popular<p>I had so much fun making this video about the very first web domain name, which was registered on this day in 1985.<br> <br>I love making silly videos like this and learning about <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebHistory</span></a>. I hope you dig it too!</p><p>On TikTok <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@wordpresscom/video/7481688415692524842" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tiktok.com/@wordpresscom/video</span><span class="invisible">/7481688415692524842</span></a></p><p>On IG <a href="https://www.instagram.com/p/DHL1iNfMZEO/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">instagram.com/p/DHL1iNfMZEO/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
David G. Smith<p>Way, way back in the early days of the web, there were only so many colors you could use reliably. I made a hexagonal chart as you see here, but I never saw anyone else do it this way. Just wondering: does anyone know of a similar thing having been done?</p><p>cc <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Meyerweb" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Meyerweb</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://front-end.social/@zeldman" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>zeldman</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@j9t" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>j9t</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://follow.ethanmarcotte.com/@beep" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>beep</span></a></span> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/WebDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebDev</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/WebColors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebColors</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/WebHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Colors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Colors</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/CSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CSS</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/CSSColors" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CSSColors</span></a></p>
Hacker News<p>GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet — <a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/geocities-1995/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/geocities-</span><span class="invisible">1995/</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HackerNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HackerNews</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GeoCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GeoCities</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Internet</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/HomePage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HomePage</span></a> #1995 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Nostalgia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebHistory</span></a></p>
Jake in the desert<p>Today I ran across <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@ricmac" class="u-url mention">@<span>ricmac</span></a></span> and his new, truly expansive piece on the history of (the admittedly centralized) GeoCities and its origins. </p><p>I had a GeoCities site myself in the 90s (that is sadly lost to time now), and I didn&#39;t know all this wild history Richard dug up for this. </p><p>A must-read if you&#39;re into the whole 90s early web thing: <a href="https://cybercultural.com/p/geocities-1995" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">cybercultural.com/p/geocities-</span><span class="invisible">1995</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/GeoCities" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>GeoCities</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HTML</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/90s" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>90s</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/90sWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>90sWeb</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/1990s" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>1990s</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SmallWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SmallWeb</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BHI" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BHI</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/BeverlyHillsInternet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BeverlyHillsInternet</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WebHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WebHistory</span></a></p>
Kerrick Long (code)<p>People in <a href="https://dotnet.social/tags/WebDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebDev</span></a> and <a href="https://dotnet.social/tags/FrontEnd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FrontEnd</span></a> <a href="https://dotnet.social/tags/Design" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Design</span></a> for at least a few years will remember Icon Fonts. But are you old enough to remember <a href="https://dotnet.social/tags/CSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CSS</span></a> sprite sheets?</p><p><a href="https://frhun.de/silk-icon-scalable/preview/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">frhun.de/silk-icon-scalable/pr</span><span class="invisible">eview/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://dotnet.social/tags/UX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UX</span></a> <a href="https://dotnet.social/tags/UI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UI</span></a> <a href="https://dotnet.social/tags/WebDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebDesign</span></a> <a href="https://dotnet.social/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HTML</span></a> <a href="https://dotnet.social/tags/WebDevelopment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebDevelopment</span></a> <a href="https://dotnet.social/tags/FrontEndDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FrontEndDev</span></a> <a href="https://dotnet.social/tags/Icons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Icons</span></a> <a href="https://dotnet.social/tags/RetroWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RetroWeb</span></a> <a href="https://dotnet.social/tags/ThrowbackTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThrowbackTech</span></a> <a href="https://dotnet.social/tags/ThrowbackThursday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThrowbackThursday</span></a> <a href="https://dotnet.social/tags/WebHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebHistory</span></a></p>
Silicon Underground (Dave F)<p>24 years ago this week, Google made its first acquisition, a Usenet archive called Dejanews. I was a regular. In this blog post I tell you where Google hides that treasure trove of information from long before Reddit. <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/dotcomera" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dotcomera</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/webhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webhistory</span></a> <a href="https://ioc.exchange/tags/usenet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usenet</span></a> <a href="https://dfarq.homeip.net/deja-news-googles-first-acquisition/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">dfarq.homeip.net/deja-news-goo</span><span class="invisible">gles-first-acquisition/</span></a></p>
Stefan Bohacek<p>I probably already mentioned it, but <a href="https://www.deadweb.club" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">deadweb.club</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> is a pretty interesting project that aims to connect people interested in exploring "defunct social media platforms, abandoned 3D worlds, and forgotten blogs".</p><p>Their newsletter hasn't been very active, but they just announced a new member joining the team, so definitely worth (re-)subscribing.</p><p><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/WebHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebHistory</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/InternetHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>InternetHistory</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/WebArchaeology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebArchaeology</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/DeadWebClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeadWebClub</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/TheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TheWeb</span></a></p>
Joe Crawford<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://xoxo.zone/@fraying" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>fraying</span></a></span> answered on Bluesky. I was thinking of </p><p><a href="https://fray.com/hope/meeting/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">fray.com/hope/meeting/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> from his very own Fray.</p><p><a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webdev</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/webhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webhistory</span></a></p>
Joe Crawford<p>I am trying to find a very old example of HTML Frames being used in a creative way on a page. I feel like it replicated a stage play look and feel using the resizable attribute of &lt;frameset&gt; and &lt;frame&gt; -- curtains opening. Does anyone remember this old usage? <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/webdev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webdev</span></a> <a href="https://xoxo.zone/tags/webhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webhistory</span></a></p>
LavX News<p>The Curious Case of Double Slashes in Unix and URLs</p><p>What happens when you delve into the depths of Unix command line navigation? You stumble upon a quirky feature: the double slash. This seemingly trivial aspect raises questions about its origins and r...</p><p><a href="https://news.lavx.hu/article/the-curious-case-of-double-slashes-in-unix-and-urls" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">news.lavx.hu/article/the-curio</span><span class="invisible">us-case-of-double-slashes-in-unix-and-urls</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tech</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/UnixQuirks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnixQuirks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/WebHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WebHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.cloud/tags/CommandLine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CommandLine</span></a></p>
Starshine 🏳️‍⚧️ 🌜<p>Image source: <a href="https://www.tumblr.com/emmaubler/764879353269108736" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">tumblr.com/emmaubler/764879353</span><span class="invisible">269108736</span></a></p><p><a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/searchengines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>searchengines</span></a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshittification</span></a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>web</span></a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/webhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>webhistory</span></a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/internethistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>internethistory</span></a> <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/bigtech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bigtech</span></a></p>
Jake in the desert<p>Twenty years ago today on November 9, 2004, Firefox 1.0 was released. </p><p>Here&#39;s an archived article from BBC News in 2002 announcing it. <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171220113953/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3993959.stm" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">web.archive.org/web/2017122011</span><span class="invisible">3953/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3993959.stm</span></a></p><p>Wild couple of decades. </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Firefox" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Firefox</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WebHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WebHistory</span></a></p>
Yohan Yukiya Sese Cuneta 사요한🦣<p>What&#39;s happening to archive.org? Is it the end of an era? Or, a sign that someone should put up an archive of Web Archive somewhere?</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Archives" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Archives</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Archiving" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Archiving</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WebArchive" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WebArchive</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WebHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WebHistory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Records" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Records</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Internet</span></a></p>
Jake in the desert<p>Mausoleums of the Web, another great one by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://indieweb.social/@mikegrindle" class="u-url mention">@<span>mikegrindle</span></a></span> </p><p><a href="https://mikegrindle.com/posts/web-mausoleums" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">mikegrindle.com/posts/web-maus</span><span class="invisible">oleums</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/LinkRot" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinkRot</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SocialMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SocialMedia</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WebHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WebHistory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>tech</span></a></p>
Jake in the desert<p>What the internet looked like in 1994, according to 15 webpages born that year</p><p>&quot;...back in ’94, the salesmen and oilmen and land-grabbers and developers had barely arrived. In the calm before the storm, the Web was still weird, unruly, unpredictable, and fascinating to look at and get lost in. People around the world weren’t just writing and illustrating these pages, they were coding and designing them.&quot;</p><p><a href="https://www.fastcompany.com/91140068/how-the-internet-went-mainstream-in-1994" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">fastcompany.com/91140068/how-t</span><span class="invisible">he-internet-went-mainstream-in-1994</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/internet" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>internet</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/90s" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>90s</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/1990s" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>1990s</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/design" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>design</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WebDesign" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WebDesign</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WebHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WebHistory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/90sWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>90sWeb</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/OldWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OldWeb</span></a></p>
Jake in the desert<p>HTML, no CSS. In the Blue Thermic HTML Editor, Windows 98.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HTML</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Windows" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Windows</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Windows98" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Windows98</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Web1" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Web1</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WebHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WebHistory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/OldWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OldWeb</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/90s" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>90s</span></a></p>
Jake in the desert<p>Just ran across this AWESOME website that has a great guide to the history of the web from 1989 to 2020! It&#39;s a great looking site that has all kinds of interesting blurbs about important historical dates in the Internet&#39;s history.</p><p>(There&#39;s a form to enter your email on the front of the site if you want email updates etc, but I&#39;m skipping straight to the timeline with this link here):</p><p><a href="https://thehistoryoftheweb.com/timeline" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">thehistoryoftheweb.com/timelin</span><span class="invisible">e</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/InternetHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>InternetHistory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WebHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WebHistory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HistoryOfTheWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HistoryOfTheWeb</span></a></p>
Jake in the desert<p>I know it&#39;s going around, but one of my big new hobbies is just randomly clicking on my bookmark for <a href="https://wiby.me/surprise" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">wiby.me/surprise</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>, which sends you to a random web 1.0 website.</p><p>It&#39;s fascinating. Websites pop up like this screengrab that&#39;s attached, a guy made a website and put a list of comic book characters in songs he documented on it. </p><p>Really weird stuff, too. </p><p>Old personal websites GALORE. Try it out - but beware, it&#39;s addictive. 😂 </p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/WebHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WebHistory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HTMLSites" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HTMLSites</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PersonalWebsites" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>PersonalWebsites</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/HTML" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>HTML</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/IndieWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IndieWeb</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/EarlyWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EarlyWeb</span></a></p>
Jake in the desert<p>Wow, it&#39;s been 28 years today (April 13, 1995) since Michael Loren Mauldin brought us Lycos. He got the name Lycos from Lycosidae, a Latin name for a family of wolf spiders, which is something I didn&#39;t know. </p><p>The 90s were wild. </p><p><a href="https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/web-design-history/lycos-1995" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">webdesignmuseum.org/web-design</span><span class="invisible">-history/lycos-1995</span></a></p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/Lycos" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Lycos</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/TechHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TechHistory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WebHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WebHistory</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SearchEngines" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SearchEngines</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>search</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/90s" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>90s</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/90sWeb" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>90sWeb</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/1990s" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>1990s</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/WebDesignMuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>WebDesignMuseum</span></a></p>
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