Every plate, A to Z31 total

• <marquee> & <blink> Construction
  Netscape vs IE, how a tag dies
• The 88x31 button Decoration
  GeoCities, 1997, an ad unit that became a friendship token
• Adoptables & pixel pets Decoration
  Neopets petpage, 2001
• The blinkie Decoration
  LiveJournal, 2003
• The blogroll Discovery
  Movable Type, 2003, a feed you curated yourself
• The custom cursor Decoration
  Windows 98, 2001. A page could take your pointer, and usually should not have
• The death of Flash Extinction
  What ended on 31 December 2020
• The directory Discovery
  Yahoo!, 1996, the thing this page is pretending to be
• The first website Ancestors
  NeXTSTEP, 1990. The browser that could also edit every page it showed you
• The forum & the BBS Conversation
  ANSI terminal, reputation as a visible number
• The frameset Construction
  The original SPA, and every problem it introduced
• The GeoCities deletion Extinction
  2009. 38 million pages. What got saved
• The guestbook Conversation
  Perl CGI, comments you owned. Sign it, it's real
• The hit counter Discovery
  Analytics you owned, and its limits
• HyperCard Ancestors
  1-bit Macintosh, 1987. The authoring tools were already installed
• The image map Construction
  Navigation as a picture
• Link rot Extinction
  The default state of a link is broken
• MIDI & site music Construction
  A whole song in 30KB
• The platform turn Extinction
  How the trade got made
• The revival Extinction
  Where we are now, and the source drop
• Search before Google Discovery
  AltaVista, 1997, keyword-stuff it and watch it win
• Site awards Discovery
  Peer review with no ranking signal
• The splash page Construction
  The site as a threshold, not a landing page
• Stamps & fanlistings Decoration
  deviantART, 2006, affiliation before the follow button
• The stats page Conversation
  Raw server logs, published on purpose
• The table layout Construction
  Nested tables and spacer GIFs, the old way to build
• The tagboard Conversation
  Cbox, 2004
• Teletext & Minitel Ancestors
  Ceefax, 1974. A network with no address bar
• The tiled background Decoration
  Netscape defaults, 2KB filled a whole screen
• View source Construction
  Brutalist, no CSS, the lesson argues its own thesis
• The webring Discovery
  Discovery as a graph you walk, not a feed you're served