Christopher (Cal) Lee University of Michigan School of Information
How the Web Was Lost – James Gleick
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Webby Tim Berners-Lee with Stephen WittFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 389 pp., $30
My journey to the heart of the forgotten internet
Slowly but surely, huge swaths of the internet are vanishing. But the artefacts of the early web are still out there, and they have lessons for the future.
Anil Dash on The Web We Lost
The rise of community-curated knowledge networks
The Internet put thousands of years of human thought at our fingertips, and enabled billions of people to create content. At least 2.5…
What Was the Internet?
As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.
What Was the Internet?
As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.
Who Wins The Browser Wars?
Impressions from my time with Perplexity’s Comet and The Browser Company’s Dia
The Sites of The Useless Web
The current roster of useless websites on The Useless Web — with the story behind each one.
Garden and the Stream - thoughts
Revisiting a prescient 2015 keynote called The Garden and the Stream and analyzing where the AT protocol fits in the web
The Sites We Lost
A memorial to the weird little corners of the internet that lived on The Useless Web.
Sharing Notes about Collective Intelligence — Pop Junctions
Last week, my travels took me to San Antonio where I delivered one of the keynote addresses at the Educause Learning Initiative conference -- a gathering focused on the application of technology for learning at the college and university level. My presentation, "What Wikipedia Can Teach Us Ab
The Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet
A book about how to survive on the internet. It’s about the cozy web, the dark web, the dark forest, the clear net, the dark net, and a new social world emerging around us. This is the Dark Forest Anthology of the Internet.
The Future of the Internet | Jonathan Zittrain | Talks at Google
Dan Shipper 📧 on Twitter / X
The smallest technical decisions become humanity's biggest pivots:The same-origin policy—a well-intentioned browser security rule from the 1990s—accidentally created Facebook, Google, and every data monopoly since. It locks your data in silos—and you stayed where your stuff… pic.twitter.com/G87qsuPHxN— Dan Shipper 📧 (@danshipper) July 9, 2025
Remembering the pre-Google web, when search was an experiment
Most people have completely forgotten how chaotic it really was."
