Parts of it are a bit thin (it’s history in a nutshell, duh!), but it is a good enough script for a class on the History of the Internet (which I now do — got myself another teaching gig, on the subject of Art and Multimedia Communication, yeah!). It just needs some meat — some general background about the history of computing, and interesting stuff like Douglas Engelbart’s demo, object-oriented programming and the GUI.

Webapp of the day: Unfortunate Cookie presents you with… misfortune cookies. The interesting thing about it is that it mines data off the Footnote.com historical document database, therefore backing its predictions with weird newspaper articles from the past.

Might seem like a repost, but it’s not. Noupe really is the place for useful webdesign-related lists.