The Dead Internet Almanac·1d agoGo Ask the IANAJon Postel logged into his computer from a meeting’s terminal room, edited a file, and gave another engineer the number he needed. The…
The Dead Internet Almanac·2d agoOne Fan Drew Netscape's Final WelcomeMario Herbert put a ship’s wheel on Netscape’s last major browser release. His design won a contest to make the little image that greeted…
The Dead Internet Almanac·3d agoYour Inbox Already Had Friends. Google Made a List.Some Gmail users clicked “Nah, go to my inbox” and were enrolled in parts of a new social network anyway. According to the Federal Trade…
The Dead Internet Almanac·5d agoiCloud Arrived. Apple's Websites Had to Move Out.Apple handed its website owners a moving checklist: find another host, enter a server address, supply a username and password. Their pages…
The Dead Internet Almanac·Oct 9$1.65 Billion, Then the Camera Kept RollingChad Hurley tried to explain that the king of search and the king of video had joined forces. Steve Chen laughed, and the camera kept…
The Dead Internet Almanac·Oct 8October 8: One More Square Before WorkClick a gray square, uncover a number, and the next square becomes difficult to leave alone. Minesweeper gave the work computer a small…
The Dead Internet Almanac·Oct 7October 7: Click Next. You Have a Website.The wizard puts a company on the web before the company has written its introduction. In a preserved FrontPage 97 template, a construction…
The Dead Internet Almanac·Oct 623 Years of Files, Gone After an UpdateThe Documents folder was still there. A user signing himself Robert had installed the October 2018 update for Windows 10, then found the…
The Dead Internet Almanac·Oct 5Ask About the Car. Leave the Owner Alone.Scott Paterson asked the Internet for help with his Saab 900 and got advice to buy another car. He responded by building somewhere Saab…
The Dead Internet Almanac·Oct 5October 5: Your PC Works. The Upgrade Says No.PC Health Check put a yellow warning above a perfectly respectable-looking processor: 3.50 GHz. In Microsoft’s own demonstration, the…
