A long long time ago, I had the great idea of creating a cobweb site blog that would contain links to old websites. I was a fan of Web 0.1 and the leap from a text based internet (gopher, NNTP, UUCP) to GUI based internet (web, http, html). I had to abandon that project, because I didn't have time to maintain and search for cob-websites. My blog on cob-websites eventually became a cob-website itself.

The folks at waxy.org found this video from 1995 and it contain examples of old websites including Nintendo and Yahoo. Their post even contains a rundown of the video.



Links:

Internet Power post at Wazy

Web Trend Map 2008

Information Architects Japan posted a Web Trend Map 2008 mapped on the Tokyo Subway system.

I found it via boingboing.net post.

This is a cool map, but it really doesn't convey the information in a good manner:

• Why is Skype, eBay, Paypal and Messenger on the same line?
• Why is Gawker, Adobe and IBM on the same line?
• It's great that Google is the downtown, by why is Flickr and Facebook closer to downtown than Google?

A better way to represent this information is categorize by website type (news, gaming, social networking, media, portal, etc) and/or use a tag cloud to 'connect the dots'.

I would then like to see what shows up downtown and what is considered to be in the suburbs.

Cafe Press online store created

I've created a online store at CafePress. I've created some products and I'll add some more when I get a chance.