firmlist.comthe firm list by matte elsbernd

The web has always attracted me as a way to express my ideas. My ideas come in many shapes and sizes. Whether it’s visual, verbal or programmatical, I’ve found some way to explore them, whether it turned into an actual website, stopped as a small demo, or remains simply an (not so) used idea that is waiting for someone else to take up and run with. The sites/projects below are pretty much 100% my work from idea to writing, design, development, etc. I think it’s a pretty impressive list, but it’s still just a sliver of the ones I’ve wanted to build. Having been building websites since 1994, the one that I built which got the most attention was The Firm List. Started in April 1998, this site came out of a need to store bookmarks of web design firms that I’d found when I overwhelmed my browser’s ability to save them. The site grew and grew to the point where I had over 15,000 firms in over 185 countries. The site was a sparetime labor of love, and unfortunately, as life moved on, the sparetime just wasn’t there. It was a hard decision, but after nearly 22 years, I realized that not having the time to maintain and improve on it was making it more of a pale shadow of what it had been. So it was time to shut it down. You can find my sites and projects on this website.Alphabet Stew -wAmerican Freak Show -wAnyways... * -iwapocalypse -wArchives -mAs Searched On... * -mBehind the Firm List Blog -wBehindtheURL * -rBloom -wBooks I’ve Read -mBrowser Wars * -aThe Burroughs Proceedings -wDeath of a Moth -wDr. Woolittle -h8Track On My Mind * -iThe Electrical Socket * -mThe Filmsite Graveyard * -mThe Firm List * -irFormulaic * -afotomatte -pHexHues -irI’m Dreaming of a Wool Christmas -hIf I Had But 1/2 A Brain * -iLinkArt * -aMatteNet -aimNo More Web * -iw(Not So) Used Ideas -hiwPeriodically Coherent -fThe PhiloMOMA -aRansom Letters -fSociety of Postmodern Archaeologists * -hwSocketboy in the Land of Splish * -ahSoiled Wool -hSteelWool -hTalking : The Dialogue Series -wTouch Tone TT -fThe Tribe of Woolgatherers -h2001 A Wool Odyssey -pWaking Up To Find You’re Still Dreaming -hwWoolFest ’99 -pWoolFest2000 -pWords Never Spoken -wWork, the Wool & the Web * -h a = art f = font h = humor i = interactive m = misc. p = photo r = resource w = writing * indicates archived project (frozen in time with no planned future additions)homebooks i’ve readdomain names i ownfontshumorinteractivemiscphotosportfoliopressresumesites/projectssocial mediawhat’s newwords fotomatte has 9,845...