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Nov 2020
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HTTP Archive's 10th Anniversary

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(November 19, 2020)

Rick meets with Steve Souders, who created the HTTP Archive project 10 years ago this month, to talk about its origins and reflect on it's growth. They're also joined by Patrick Meenan, creator of WebPageTest and maintainer of HTTP Archive, along with Paul Calvano, past State of the Web guest and also a maintainer of HTTP Archive.


For links to everything we discussed → https://goo.gle/3nfhjfA

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