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The birth of the Web — The World Wide Web was invented by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 while working at CERN
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.
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Japan Daily on Instagram: "Abandoned suitcases are becoming a growing issue at Narita Airport, where nearly 900 pieces of luggage have already been collected this fiscal year—about nine times more than four years ago. Police say around 10% of the bags are empty, suggesting intentional disposal, with storage and disposal costs ultimately borne by taxpayers. The problem extends beyond airports to train stations and public spaces, often linked to travelers avoiding disposal fees after shopping. In response, Narita Airport is testing solutions such as clothing compression machines to help travelers save space and avoid buying new luggage. Retailers and repair businesses are also encouraging reuse through free take-back and resale programs, aiming to reduce waste and promote more sustainable travel habits."
49 likes, 0 comments - japandaily_jp on January 21, 2026: "Abandoned suitcases are becoming a growing issue at Narita Airport, where nearly 900 pieces of luggage have already been collected this fiscal year—about nine times more than four years ago. Police say around 10% of the bags are empty, suggesting intentional disposal, with storage and disposal costs ultimately borne by taxpayers. The problem extends beyond airports to train stations and public spaces, often linked to travelers avoid…

RE: #CECOT piece is everywhere on the web - even the Internet Archive: #60Minutes ... a #StreisandEffect writ large: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streisand_effect

Bing's web crawler is a true putz of the Internet.
By-the-way, various other search engines use Bing as the underlying web crawler, so this is far from being a Microsoft issue.
Bing's web crawler refuses to index content that does not meet its standards.
And what are those standards? It is that pages contain a bunch of meta tags and such.
Well, some of my archival content was written around 1995, long before those meta tags were conceived.
Thus, from Bi…

#Blakes7 Series A, Episode 05 - The Web
NOVARA: A simple mental process known to the ancients. We have developed and refined it. It is more reliable than mechanical transmissions.
BLAKE: You said you have a way to free us from the web.
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Twenty-four. There are now 24 advents. All of you wiseacres suggesting I was one calendar away from an advent of advents can stuff it.
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/12/web-design-dev-advent-calendars-for-2025.html
Still not making a damn adven…

Web Design / Dev Advent Calendars for 2025
The advent calendar I wanted to use for the photo hasn’t arrived yet, so enjoy this box of tree. Web developers around the world have for years given a nod to Saturnalia solstice Isaac Newton’s birthday Yule wassailing mummering end of Gregorian calendar year Christmas with advent calendars covering web-related…

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116074874092696186
I think this cultural shift actually started around 2008–2010, with the advent of crypto and the metastasizing of complex web frameworks that started to replace native apps.

Getting more and more burned out and tired of school. I'm way too far in to give up now, but man sometimes I just really hate spending so much of my free time on this. I really hate that so many of my CS courses seem to be geared around exactly the type of dictate development that I have zero interest in - using some bloated web framework that's basically a black box to implement a list of features for a commercial oriented app I'd have zero interest in using or working on in the…

Just a reminder about next week's #DefendResearch webinar with PEN America. Join us on February 12th for a conversation with PEN America to discuss their important new report: "America’s Censored Campuses: Expanding the Web of Control" , focusing specifically on this new report and what it can tell us about the state of scientific research and education in the United State…

Save the date! Our first meetup in the Rhein-Neckar metropolitan region for 2026 is just around the corner, taking place on February 26th, only two weeks from now.
Sign up here https://www.meetup.com/phpug-rhein-neckar/events/305478333/

PHPUGMRN 06/25, Thu, Dec 11, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
**Agenda:** 19:00 CET - Doors open 19:30 CET - Intro 19:45 CET - Create reactive web applications with (almost) no JavaScript (HTMX), Thomas Bley 20:30 CET - Break 20:45 CE

Now up to 23 advent calendars:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/12/web-design-dev-advent-calendars-for-2025.html
Two new extras, linking @…

Web Design / Dev Advent Calendars for 2025
The advent calendar I wanted to use for the photo hasn’t arrived yet, so enjoy this box of tree. Web developers around the world have for years given a nod to Saturnalia solstice Isaac Newton’s birthday Yule wassailing mummering end of Gregorian calendar year Christmas with advent calendars covering web-related…

Internal documents and insider communications obtained by CDG News reveal that 700Credit, one of the auto industry's largest credit reporting and identity verification providers, experienced a data breach on or around October 25, 2025
https://news.dealersh…

700Credit suffers data breach exposing consumer SSNs, documents show
700Credit discovered the breach after being "alerted to suspicious activity within our proprietary web-based application 700Dealer.com," according to an internal memo shared with CDG. (3 min. read)

Implantable BCIs for restoring vision come and go, while The vOICe has been around for decades and is there to stay for centuries to come, inspired by Hari Seldon's vast timeline https://github.com/seeingwithsound?achievement=arctic-code-vault-…

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VT on Instagram: "In Japan, a new kind of bar is drawing attention for flipping workplace culture on its head. The bar is designed specifically for people who are considering leaving their jobs. Drinks are free, and the focus is not on alcohol sales but conversation. Patrons are invited to talk openly about burnout, frustration, and career doubts, while staff are trained to listen without judgement or pressure. The idea taps into a growing reckoning in Japan around long working hours, rigid hierarchies, and the mental health toll of intense job expectations. Conversations about quitting or dissatisfaction have traditionally been stigmatised, making this kind of space unusual. By removing the cost barrier and offering a supportive environment, the bar aims to normalise discussions about career dissatisfaction and help people reflect on what they actually want from work, even if that means starting over."
34K likes, 169 comments - vt on January 31, 2026: "In Japan, a new kind of bar is drawing attention for flipping workplace culture on its head. The bar is designed specifically for people who are considering leaving their jobs. Drinks are free, and the focus is not on alcohol sales but conversation. Patrons are invited to talk openly about burnout, frustration, and career doubts, while staff are trained to listen without judgement or pressure. The idea taps into a growing reckoning in Japan a…

@… @… Good, making money in the open web was always crappy.
Either that universal wage, or even more nearly free hosting options and tooling around them. Because for those with very little money, it's easier to spent it on …

On the 26th day of December I add a 26th item to the collection of advent calendars:
https://adrianroselli.com/2025/12/web-design-dev-advent-calendars-for-2025.html

Web Design / Dev Advent Calendars for 2025
The advent calendar I wanted to use for the photo hasn’t arrived yet, so enjoy this box of tree. Web developers around the world have for years given a nod to Saturnalia solstice Isaac Newton’s birthday Yule wassailing mummering end of Gregorian calendar year Christmas with advent calendars covering web-related…

For some reason I had the Golden girls theme spinning around in my head. Only the 'friend and a confidant' part - in tune, and had to search the web to figure out what I was singing, so maybe I heard it somewhere?

One thing which is annoying about Vivaldi and also Firefox and presumably also all the other Android web browsers is the way the "Add To Homescreen" button works on pages like Mastodon which are Progressive Web Apps.
If you add the shortcut to the homescreen then it opens as a WPA which means the browser stuff is all gone and hidden. No back button. No way to bookmark. No way to launch a link in a new browser window etc.
Ought to be two separate buttons for "Add a link to the homepage" vs "Add this app as an app to the homepage" but there isn't.
You can get around this by turning on airplane mode and adding a link to the error page to the homescreeen, which then works as a link to the website in the browser, not a WPA app, when you're online again.
I did this to the links I use with Vivaldi before I realized it's proprietary and so will not do.
Trying to rebuild them as Firefox links again and sadly something is broken now. Won't add the error page. Tells me the pixel launcher is crashing.
So I can't have the old web bookmark links to pages in WPA apps. Boo. 😦

The vOICe vision BCI will be around after Neuralink Blindsight is long obsolete https://github.com/seeingwithsound?achievement=arctic-code-vault-contributor&tab=achievements
The vOICe web app

Ok, something other than politics for a minute. Browsers.
I started daily driving Gnome Web around the time the new Mozilla CEO announced the AI-heavy focus for the company going forward. I'm not having any problems with WebKit as a rendering engine, but I think the interface leaves a bit to be desired for my uses. Here's my complaints.
- The interface takes up too much screen real estate on small laptop screens
- Bookmarks are currently not even working for me
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