In praise of the URI
DPK argues that the thing that made the early web "click", the thing that allowed it to "break out" in the 1990s, was not HTML, not HTTP, but the standardization on URIs as "a…
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Missing the web
From a recent HackerNews discussion about search engines, some harsh truth about the big shift in the last two decades: >It is only more recently that they seem to have given up. They haven't…
Declaring “watch-later” bankruptcy
I’m sure a lot of people get to this point … it’s a form of procrastination, clicking on the tempting little Watch Later mini-clock-face. “Of course I’ll watch you”, I say to the little thumbnail. F…