Remarkable how far we’ve come in 30 years! How sad that people worked on such projects for free and didn’t think to monetize it at...

What is the Music Timeline? The Music Timeline shows genres of music waxing and waning, based on how many Google Play Music users have an artist or album in their music library, and other data (such as album release dates). Each stripe on the graph represents a genre; the thickness of the stripe tells you roughly the popularity of music released in a given year in that genre. (For example, the “jazz” stripe is thick in the 1950s since many users’ libraries contain jazz albums released in the ’50s.) Click on the stripes to zoom into more specialized genres. Check it...

Have you ever wondered about the magic and mystery of the animated gif? They’ve been around for quite some time now… a bit like the cockroaches of the internet…but in a good way. Explore how the rose to prominence and remained the top choice for conveying any emotion perfectly. The Story of GIF    ...

The web today is a growing universe of interlinked web pages and web apps, teeming with videos, photos, and interactive content. What the average user doesn’t see is the interplay of web technologies and browsers that makes all this possible. Evolution of the Web This is a really neat interactive chart! I’d forgotten about Mosaic until I saw the icon for...