Resources
Sources and further reading
Everything we consulted, plus the places to go if you want to research early-web culture yourself. External links open on their own sites and are not affiliated with this project.
Web preservation
- Internet Archive Wayback MachineSnapshots of Eel Slap and its contemporaries going back to the early 2010s. The best primary source for how a page actually looked at a given date.
- Flashpoint (BlueMaxima)A large preservation project for Flash and other plugin-based web games. Essential context for what was lost in December 2020.
- RuffleAn open-source Flash Player emulator that runs in modern browsers, used by archives to keep old content playable.
Meme and culture documentation
Technical reading
- MDN: Pointer eventsThe unified input model that makes mouse, touch and pen work through one code path.
- MDN: requestAnimationFrameHow to align updates with the display refresh so fast input does not queue redundant work.
- WCAG 2.2The accessibility guidelines this site follows, including reduced motion and keyboard operability.