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2026-07-21 17:34:04 GMT

NYT on how Google’s AI search is hurting the open web: starving websites big and small of search traffic while regurgitating their information for profit https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/google-ai-open-web.html?unlocked_article_code=1.zVA.A1LZ.AwMkNDLrNcPc&smid=url-share

2026-07-10 02:30:26 GMT

Publishers prepare to opt-out of Google search over AI training: I missed the news that Cloudflare will start blocking Googlebot by default on September 15 https://www.adweek.com/media/publishers-opt-out-google-search/

2026-06-18 18:54:24 GMT

Without permission, a marketing agency republished the entirety of John Koenig's Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows book, replacing its art with AI slop and adding new AI words and definitions. Their unauthorized site now ranks higher than the real one everywhere. https://waxy.org/2026/06/the-wholesale-plagiarism-of-obscure-sorrows/

2026-06-10 00:44:36 GMT

Molly White launches Tech Influence Watch to track AI spending in politics: a natural evolution of Follow the Crypto, her project tracking over $130m spent by crypto companies in last year's elections https://www.citationneeded.news/tech-influence-watch/

2025-11-21 23:26:55 GMT

How To Use the Internet (1995): a 23-year-old Cory Doctorow shows off Usenet, the Internet Underground Music Archive, Justin's Links from the Underground, and more to the CBC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0EXga2hEIs

2025-11-21 18:10:17 GMT

Jmail.world: Luke Igel and Riley Walz made a Gmail clone for reading and searching the Epstein emails https://jmail.world/

2025-07-25 16:58:00 GMT

Google’s goo.gl URL shortener closing on August 25: if you have an old blog, now's a good time to replace those old links before Google needlessly breaks them https://www.theverge.com/news/713125/google-url-shortener-links-shutdown-deadline

2025-06-04 00:23:23 GMT

WeatherStar 4000+: live 1990s-style TV weather forecast recreated on the web, complete with scanlines and cheesy music https://weatherstar.netbymatt.com/

2025-03-19 22:13:58 GMT

Invisiclues.org: new Infocom fan site with a bunch of great details, including interactive status bar, playable Infocomics, a deep article archive, and very good 404 page https://www.invisiclues.org/

2025-03-19 22:11:07 GMT

Columboxd: finally, a site to track and review episodes of Columbo https://columboxd.com/

2025-02-07 03:09:30 GMT

GovWayback: access historical versions of U.S. government pages by replacing ".gov" in the URL with ".govwayback.com" https://govwayback.com/

2024-12-18 17:45:36 GMT

Anti-Tag Clouds: the most common English words that never appeared in a book, like "woman" in Winnie the Pooh or "difficult" in Moby Dick https://www.bewitched.com/demo/anti/

2024-11-24 00:18:01 GMT

Hundreds of Beavers, streaming free on YouTube: 97% positive on Rotten Tomatoes, this low-budget slapstick indie comedy is one of the best movies I saw this year https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guE0Qd8BRw0

2024-11-18 22:23:58 GMT

The first virtual meeting was in 1916, linking 5,100 engineers across eight cities: Alexander Graham Bell kicked off the event with a few words https://spectrum.ieee.org/virtual-meeting?ref=thebrowser.com

2024-10-31 18:43:01 GMT

When does Instagram decide a nipple becomes female?: Ada Ada Ada is documenting her transition on Instagram, uploading shirtless photos weekly to test their nudity guidelines https://www.404media.co/when-does-instagram-decide-a-nipple-becomes-female/

2024-10-30 19:27:37 GMT

Boing Boing moving to Substack, shuttering discussion forums: the BBS goes read-only on Friday, replaced by Substack comments, and the community is not happy https://boingboing.net/2024/10/28/happy-mutants-rejoice-boing-boing-launches-clean-ad-free-experience.html

2024-10-11 19:07:44 GMT

Cabel Sasser’s XOXO 2024 talk: all of this year's XOXO talks were stellar, but this is the only one that comes with a newly-launched archive of nearly-lost artwork https://xoxofest.com/2024/videos/cabel-sasser/

2024-10-09 20:27:20 GMT

Aftermath’s list of discussion forums: Chris Person compiled a list of active forums, grouped by subject area, hosted outside of the major platforms https://aftermath.site/best-active-forums-internet-today

2024-10-09 16:52:10 GMT

Dookie Demastered: Green Day collaborated with BRAIN to demake their 1994 album in 15 obscure formats, including Game Boy, Teddy Ruxpin, wax cylinder, and player piano roll https://www.dookiedemastered.com/

2024-09-02 18:43:51 GMT

The Pentium as a Navajo weaving: 1994 replica of a printed circuit board handmade on an upright wooden loom https://www.righto.com/2024/08/pentium-navajo-fairchild-shiprock.html

2024-09-02 18:21:49 GMT

Departure Mono: free monospaced pixel font with a very nice website to promote it https://departuremono.com/

2024-08-07 03:00:38 GMT

Where Facebook’s AI Slop Comes From: Facebook is paying bonuses for viral content, no matter how terrible, while laying off the content moderators who can prevent it https://www.404media.co/where-facebooks-ai-slop-comes-from/

2024-06-21 00:06:06 GMT

500,000 books removed from the Internet Archive’s lending library after publisher lawsuit: ebook licensing for libraries continues to be far too expensive and restrictive https://www.techdirt.com/2024/06/20/500000-books-have-been-deleted-from-the-internet-archives-lending-library/

2024-05-16 19:13:59 GMT

Archie, the internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running: a copy of the source code for the FTP search engine was found at the University of Warsaw in Poland https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/archie-the-internets-first-search-engine-is-rescued-and-running/