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The Web Standards Awards : 100 sites : Jan 03 2009

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BANG!

It seems that – after 5 years online – www.webstandardsawards.com has finally disappeared completely. Sigh. All those dead links …

The site actually stopped featuring new websites in 2006, with just the 100 winners displayed along with the message:

“As a testament to the work of the pioneers who we applauded, this site will remain open as a record of 100 sites that helped shape a period in the Internet’s development that we were - and still are - excited to be a part of.”

In July 2005, I was lucky enough to win a web standards award for this very website (number 86 in the list). It was a real honour, and I’m a little sad that the website is now nothing more than an <iframe> advertising hosting and such. But hey. Change happens and things move on.

I also feel it is a shame for all the other 99 websites, so here is a list of them all in order of their inclusion on the website. Many have now changed or no longer exist, and some – dare I say it – have obviously changed hands and are now quite shocking in terms of their design and in terms of web standards HTML and such:



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