Information mesh
Timelines of people, interfaces, technologies and more:
30 years of facts about the World Wide Web.
Link tags: mesh
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Frank Chimero · Tweenage Computing
Frank yearns for just-in-time computing:
With each year that goes by, it feels like less and less is happening on the device itself. And the longer our work maintains its current form (writing documents, updating spreadsheets, using web apps, responding to emails, monitoring chat, drawing rectangles), the more unnecessary high-end computing seems. Who needs multiple computers when I only need half of one?
Apollo 17 in Real-time
Relive the final trip to the moon with Geno and the crew of Apollo 17 …(real)timeshifted by 45 years.
Now and Then Cobh
Time-shifted photographs of my hometown in Ireland.
1917. Free history.
Time-shifted reports from the Russian revolution, 100 years on.
All the texts used are taken from genuine documents written by historical figures: letters, memoirs, diaries and other documents of the period.
Every day, when you go onto the site, you will find out what happened exactly one hundred years ago: what various people were thinking about and what happened to each of them in this eventful year. You may not fast-forward into the future, but must follow events as they happen in real time.
The original proposal of the WWW, HTMLized
This is the ur-spring: Tim Berners Lee's original proposal for "Mesh", later "World Wide Web."