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Early Web Links

Bevor das Internet kommerzialisiert wurde, war es skurril, wunderbar und zutiefst persönlich. Menschen erstellten Webseiten, einfach weil sie etwas zu teilen hatten. Einige davon gibt es immer noch. Early Web Links ist voll von Seiten, die dieses Gefühl wieder aufleben lassen.

The early web was a different place. People built websites about their cats, their favorite TV shows, their rock collections. There were no algorithms deciding what you’d see. No engagement metrics. No content strategies. Just people sharing what they loved with whoever happened to stop by.

That spirit never fully went away. There are still people out there hand-coding HTML, tending personal sites, and linking to each other through webrings, blogrolls, and link pages. But finding those sites has gotten really hard. Search engines bury them under commercial results, and most people have been convinced that the only way to have a presence online is through someone else’s platform.

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(via MeFi)

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Als und warum die Tennisbälle gelb wurden

Früher waren Tennisbälle schwarz und weiß – in Wimbledon wurden bis 1985 weiße Bälle gespielt. Dank eines Vorschlags von Sir David Attenborough wurden sie für die Fernsehzuschauer gelb.

The change in color happened due to the demands of television transmissions. In 1972 television was already in color all over the world (although in Spain it was not generalized until five or six years later). At the end of the 1960s, the person in charge of the BBC broadcasts (which, of course, was in charge of Wimbledon) was the renowned documentary filmmaker David Attenborough. And he noticed that the visibility of the traditional white ball was not perfect, especially if it approached the lines of the rectangle of play.

In that year of 1972, tennis was in full growth: the professional and amateur circuits had unified and women’s professional tennis was also growing. Tennis was becoming a great world spectacle and in this context television was fundamental. The International Tennis Federation, in charge of the rules, commissioned a study which showed that the yellow ball was more visible and therefore easier for viewers to follow. The courts, moreover, began to be multicolored once the use of synthetic materials in official tournaments was approved.


(via Messy Nessy)

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Die Smashing Pumpkins mit einer Akustikversion von „Mayonaise“ im Jahr 1993

Wo wir gerade bei akustischen Gitarren sind: Am Abend vor der Veröffentlichung ihres Albums „Siamese Dream“ im Jahr 1993 spielten The Smashing Pumpkins eine Akustikversion des Songs „Mayonaise“ bei einem Auftritt im Plattenladen Tower Records in Chicago. Ein paar Jahre später sind die Frau des Hauses und ich mit unserem E-Kadett Kombi zu genau jenem Album durch halb Europa gefahren. Scheiße, ist das lange her!


(Direktlink, via Laughing Squid)

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