The very first version of film resource the Internet Movie Database made its debut in 1990, at least a year before the release of the earliest web browsers:
You might wonder how it is possible for IMDb to be 19 since the first web browser wasn’t really available until 1991. Well, on October 17th in 1990 [...]

French comic-book character Asterix turns 50 this year, but birthday celebrations have been marred by an argument over the whereabouts of his home village, with a number of towns in the general vicinity of its purported location claiming to be the abode of the warrior and his friends.
The map on the first page of [...]

Obligatory Apollo 11 related link of the day: a collection of photos taken before, during, and after the mission. The shots taken in the vicinity of the Moon that also feature Earth are among the most stunning in my opinion.

I’ve been having fun going through Google 2001, Google’s index as of sometime in 2001. Both disassociated, when this exclusively a com.au website, and my name, top the search results.
disassociated doesn’t do that today at Google.com though. A couple of online dictionaries beat me to the top. I ought to have disassociated.com included in their [...]

kottke.org is ten years old today
Great retrospective style post, including screen shots of previous versions, to mark the tenth anniversary of kottke.org
That makes kottke.org one of a handful of the longest continually updated weblogs on the web…something to be proud of, I guess.

Grrr, if only I’d kept softcopies of my earlier journal entries…

Lego Celebrates 50 Years of Building
Hot on the heels of the Helvetica font’s half century, another classic cultural icon celebrates its 50th birthday this year, none other than Lego building bricks.
It was at 1:58 p.m. on January 28, 1958, that then-Lego head Godtfred Kirk Christiansen filed a patent for the iconic plastic brick with its [...]