The world-wide-web is about to turn thirty. If you, like me, began experiencing the Internet in the dark age of Usenet and 1200 baud dialup, the folks at CERN have set up something a little more way-back than the Wayback machine at the Internet Archive. Yes, before rainbow gradients and animated GIFs, before Internet Explorer, before Netscape, there was the original NeXT browser. And you can see it emulated here if you want to see how the web began.


If you like more literal time-travel, as well as zombies, airships and Dodge Chargers, you might like S Andrew Swann’s latest book Marked, which Publisher’s Weekly called, “bizarre, dark, and occasionally wild…”

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