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Webmaster a Manifesto for Everyone

Hacker News Top · 2026-08-17 Cached

This article presents a manifesto reflecting on the history and importance of webmasters, advocating for their role in the modern indie web.

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"The original URL for this prediction will no longer be available in 11 years." (2011)

Hacker News Top · 2026-08-09 Cached

A 2011 Long Bets wager between Jeremy Keith and Matt Haughey bets $1,000 on whether the original URL for the prediction will still work by 2022, with proceeds to Bletchley Park Trust or the Internet Archive.

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Museum of the Human Web

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-15 Cached

The Museum of the Human Web is a collection of artifacts from the pre-AI era of internet and web creation, celebrating human ingenuity. Proceeds from the sweepstakes benefit the Internet Archive and Computer History Museum.

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Bring back crappy forums

Hacker News Top · 2026-07-02 Cached

A nostalgic retrospective on the charm and community of old web forums, arguing that modern social media lacks their depth and intimacy.

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Matrix URIs, a URL syntax from Tim Berners-Lee that never shipped (1996)

Hacker News Top · 2026-06-26

The article discusses Matrix URIs, a URL syntax proposed by Tim Berners-Lee in 1996 that was never implemented.

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Matt’s Script Archive: The Scripts That Reshaped The Web

Lobsters Hottest · 2026-06-23 Cached

The article recounts the history of Matt's Script Archive, a collection of widely used but insecure CGI scripts from the 1990s that popularized web forums and guestbooks, highlighting the security flaws and the community's response.

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