A curated list of web sites of the old-school: mostly non-commercial and all hand-made, survivals of the Web As It Once Was. And sites that preserve the spirit of it.
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The Trojan Room Coffee Pot
The Trojan Room at the University of Cambridge Computer Lab was the site of the very first web cam, when its predecessor, XCoffee - a frame grabber tracking the state of the lab's coffee pot - was ported to the web in November 1993. The coffee pot and the Trojan Room are long gone, and the webcam was turned off in 2001, but its web site lives on as a testament to a heroic age now barely visible through the mists of time.
date added: 2024-08-17
tags: web history coffee
MEME
Archives of a newsletter about then-current developments in cyberspace, published by David Solomon Bennahum between 1995 and 1998. A remarkable time capsule of that transfomative moment in computing.
date added: 2024-04-07
tags: computers web networks
Internet Statistics: Growth and Usage of the Web and the Internet
The web is growing fast. In 1993 there were 130 websites, growing to an estimated 650,000 in 1997! Who knows what the future will bring? A collection of statistics by Matthew Gray, perhaps better known as the author of the first automated web agent ("spider"), the World Wide Web Wanderer.
date added: 2023-07-31
tags: web internet
Welcome to the Mosaic Communications Universe
Homepage of Mosaic Communications Corporation, the company developing the Netsite web server and Netscape browser (available for $99 for Windows, Mac, and X Windows, or check out the free public beta [for personal use only]). As befits a modern web site, images load at a blistering 56.6Kbps.
date added: 2023-03-11
tags: web
The World Wide Web
Describes the WorldWideWeb (W3), a wide-area hypermedia information retrieval initiative aiming to give universal access to a large universe of documents.
date added: 2022-11-22
tags: hypertext internet web
Contemporary Home Computing
A webzine by net artists Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied. Fascinating essays and art projects about net culture and the unnecessary overcomplication of the web. If the List o' Links needed a scholarly justification, this would pretty much be it.
date added: 2022-07-18
tags: art culture web