This week Rafael and Jeremy, two refugees of the browser wars, share tales of sacrifice and chivalry from the early days of the internet.
A Muppet Family Christmas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojtGHXsTXmU
Bike sharing in China https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/02/world/asia/china-beijing-dockless-bike-share.html?mcubz=1&_r=0
Browser wars https://www.wired.com/2009/01/awesome-infogra/
Mosaic browser https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)
Hotline https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hotline_Communications
Serial Box https://twitter.com/peteavey/status/24423749486903296
SVG https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/SVG
Webkit https://webkit.org/
Firefox https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/
Imagemagick https://www.imagemagick.org/script/index.php
WebVR https://webvr.info/
Netscape https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netscape
AOL CDs https://techcrunch.com/2010/12/27/aol-discs-90s/
Compuserve https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CompuServe
Apple eWorld https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EWorld
Information Superhighway, 1991 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk82TI92GO4
Information Superhighway, attributed to Nam June Paik and Al Gore https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_superhighway
Adobe Flash https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Flash_Player
Why Chrome uses so much freaking RAM http://lifehacker.com/why-chrome-uses-so-much-freaking-ram-1702537477
The Story of Firefox OS https://medium.com/@bfrancis/the-story-of-firefox-os-cb5bf796e8fb
Mobile First design https://www.uxpin.com/studio/blog/a-hands-on-guide-to-mobile-first-design/
Steve Jobs promotes Web 2.0 / Ajax apps (no SDK) https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=42&v=8Vq993Td6ys
App Fatigue https://techcrunch.com/2016/02/03/app-fatigue/
Mark Zuckerberg: Our Biggest Mistake Was Betting Too Much On HTML5 https://techcrunch.com/2012/09/11/mark-zuckerberg-our-biggest-mistake-with-mobile-was-betting-too-much-on-html5/
React Native https://facebook.github.io/react-native/
Rafael’s new app, Here Hear http://www.newrafael.com/herehear/
** Commercial Break ** Reflections on the Burden of Men https://www.rotbom.com/
Jack Conte on reality of being famous on YouTube https://www.ted.com/talks/jack_conte_how_artists_can_finally_get_paid_in_the_digital_age
Microserfs, Douglas Coupland, 1995 https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2748.Microserfs
JODI http://v2.nl/archive/organizations/jodi.org
The Web Browser as Aesthetic https://creators.vice.com/en_us/article/z4yagw/digart-the-web-browser-as-aesthetic-framework-why-digital-art-today-looks-different
Text Free Browsing http://textfreebrowsing.com/
Kobo https://www.kobo.com/
A/B testing and Multi-armed bandits https://vwo.com/blog/multi-armed-bandit-algorithm/
Tinder https://www.gotinder.com/
Why doing less drives more conversions https://neilpatel.com/blog/less-drives-conversions/
Olia Lialina, Summer, 2013 http://www.emiliegervais.com/olia/summer/
Rhizome’s Net Art Anthology https://anthology.rhizome.org/
The Browser Wars are back https://www.wired.com/2015/09/thompson-3/
Torrent files https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torrent_file
