Archive - PHONE TIME

📱✨ Reflections on six months of PHONE TIME ✨📱

Plus, The Browser Company is being acquired, and New Computer is shutting down.

Sep 6 •

Kristin Merrilees

Computers and community at HTML Day 2025

The event, held across more than 40 cities worldwide, drew attendance from HTML beginners and experts alike.

Sep 3 •

Kristin Merrilees

August 2025

July 2025

How it feels to be an internet culture reporter

A story in memes.

Jul 30 •

Kristin Merrilees

My favorite emoji proposals

Plus, shoppable collage app Zeen is shutting down.

Jul 25 •

Kristin Merrilees

Soot wants to help you 'map your world' using AI

It's one answer to an internet increasingly defined by visuals, memes, aesthetics, mood boards, and "vibes."

Jul 16 •

Kristin Merrilees

Let's go on an Internet Roadtrip

Neal Agarwal on the website as a medium.

Jul 13 •

Kristin Merrilees

'The story of the future is what you will be able to do with computers'

'The Electronic Cottage,' a 1981 book by Joseph Deken, contains both practical guidance and dreamy optimism about personal computing.

Jul 11 •

Kristin Merrilees

Putting the smartphone on stage

This year's Pageant of the Masters, “Gold Coast: Treasures of California," blended historical paintings with digital storytelling.

Jul 9 •

Kristin Merrilees

This website-poem asks what it feels like to be visited by grief

Writer and technologist Omayeli Arenyeka made interactive website "Grief Found Me" to capture the rogue and permissionless nature of grief.

Jul 8 •

Kristin Merrilees

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