If you’re curious about how websites work, you’ve ever selected ‘view source’ to see the guts of the HTML, or you have wondered about the ominous ‘back-end’, then wonder no longer. Back of a webpage reveals the inner workings of your favourite websites and gives new meaning to pressing the browser’s ‘back’ button.

The photographic paper detail on the Flickr one is genius. Send you own submissions to backofawebpage@gmail.com Found via davidthedesigner – Made me smile too…

I love this new 8-bit map of London by Brett Camper, showing what happens when the vintage graphical power of the NES meets the cutting edge GPS data of Google maps. You can zoom in and out and search for your house, although obviously it doesn’t really have the resolution of the Google original, so you’re not going to be able to see your car parked outside or wave to your Mum. (or see your house.)

He’s also done New York…

It’s a gaming icon’s 30th anniversary as well as Friday afternoon, so Google reckon you should be playing Pacman. Yes, you can actually play Pacman in their logo- click it! Genius.

Thanks to Willem for the link. If you like this, check out Defender Of The Favicon

Google has designs on your entire computer now with their upcoming Chrome OS. This video explains it in a straightforward way. Perhaps a little too straightforward…

It’s really exciting stuff, but I mean come on, there are TWO letter Ts in the word ‘inTerneT’ guys. Innernet just makes me think of Dennis Quaid floating around the inner ear in his teeny submarine.

Still, people are increasingly making this sort of video now to explain their products or services. Perhaps because online things tend to be technical and scary to some people and are more palatable in felt tip pen and a soft Californian accent. Apple’s iPhone ads are almost painfully patronising.

Here’s a video which should help the Daily Mail get it’s head around Twitter.

As technology becomes more intuitive and reaches out to every generation during their everyday lives, then it’s only right that explaining things like this gets more natural, with companies’ official marketing starting to imitate the traditional word of mouth explanation in the pub. After all, previously technical terminology like ‘blog’, ‘ping’ ‘tweet’ etc are becoming more everyday language every, er… day. We’re finally getting comfortable with the future.

I’m holding out for Branding in Plain English, or something about the offside rule. A new video meme? Just wait for the parodies…

Found this great visual trace tool on Uneasysilence. It lets you see how the data which makes up your website actually gets to the viewer, through various servers and gateways. It uses Google Maps to show you, so you can zoom around and look at it as a map or a satellite image as usual.

The image here shows the route for holster.co.uk