Dominik Schwind

I remember reading about this guy and his map. Now someone actually went and talked to him and they put the giant map together. Absolutely wonderful.

So would I. Just look at it!

Hydrants, sorted by colour. Amazing.

This is a great talk, even for someone who isn't a UX designer.

This is so cool: "Salvaged.nu is a place on the internet that recovers, repairs, and reuploads Photoshop resources from lost personal blogs from the mid-2000's."

Same with (good) developers

Late 10s are probably my favourites

I like website Easter eggs like this. How fun!

Oh, I'll be spending a lot of time looking around this page.

I like all of this so very much

I like this. It looks like a MovableType blog. (Which I think it still is.)

Oh. I never thought about it that way.

Wow.

The headline is more a question than an answer but his analysis is spot on.

European post-war idealism created a framework for open collaboration among its scientists, who not only discovered the ‘God Particle’, but birthed an openly licensed technology for sharing information. American capitalist ideology and market-led innovation popularised and developed it to the point that the web has become an essential part of everyday life.