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Ann-Marie • 1 card
In 1993, there were just 23,000 websites and less than 40 million users. In 2018, there are roughly a billion websites, and more than three billion users.
Jack Self • THE BIG FLAT NOW: Power, Flatness, and Nowness in the Third Millennium
Fuckedcompany.com chronicled the biggest dot-com era busts from the perspective of a cynical, witty programmer.
Philip Kaplan • F'D Companies: Spectacular Dot-com Flameouts
Surfing the Internet: An Introduction Version 2.0.2
gutenberg.org
What the internet looked like in 1994, according to 15 webpages born that year
fastcompany.com
Cool Web
Brad Barrish • 3 cards
In the summer of 1995, it became clear to him that the first of these, the internet, was not going to wait for him to finish graduate school. The web had just been opened up for commercial use, and that August the browser startup Netscape went public, soaring within a day to a market value of $2.9 billion.