Simon Willison’s Weblog

Discussion about Altavista on Hacker News. Fascinating thread on Hacker News where Bryant Durrell, a former Director from Altavista provides some insider thoughts on how they lost against Google.

# 16th February 2019, 6:57 pm / computer-history, google, internet-history, search

“I made the first animated under construction icon”. twoleftfeet on MetaFilter describes how he created the first ever Under Construction animation in 1995, after discovering his server-push animations could be replaced by the exciting new animated GIF.

# 15th October 2009, 2:11 pm / animation, gifs, history, internet-history, metafilter, underconstruction