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Each topic threads through both the restored archive and the modern retrospectives.
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Salesforce
4 postsThe Salesforce ecosystem from 2003 customer pioneers to today: AppExchange, Force.com, MuleSoft, Slack acquisition, agentic AI on the platform.
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WordPress
3 postsWordPress story from 2003 fork of b2/cafelog to the headless and block-editor era, with a focus on early-community voices like Matt Mullenweg.
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jQuery
0 postsjQuery archive and modern retrospectives: how John Resig's 2006 library shaped a decade of browser development before React and Web Components.
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Social Media
7 postsThe social media monitoring stack from 2005 Firehose-era tooling to modern brand-listening platforms.
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Blogging
67 postsPersonal blogging history, from Movable Type 2.x to static-site generators, the rise of newsletters, and the platform consolidation of the 2010s.
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Mobile Web
2 postsHow the mobile web was built before the iPhone changed everything: WAP, J2ME, early webkit, responsive design.
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SaaS
1 postsSaaS as a business model and engineering culture, with attention to the 2003-2010 cohort that wrote the playbook for everyone after.
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Web Standards
1 postsCSS, XHTML, microformats, accessibility: the web-standards movement that won the late 2000s.
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Open Source
0 postsOpen-source community history: licensing, governance, foundation drama, and the projects that survived the transition to corporate stewardship.
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Tech Industry
18 postsIndustry retrospectives: acquisitions, layoffs, cycles, and the people who lived through the dotcom-to-AI arc.