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Short history of the bookmarklet - Bookmarlets are awesome, I have a few that I use regularly. Interesting history too, where they enhanced the address bar in Netscape Navigator v2 so that it recognised a URL protocol of 'javascript:' as being a script and then run the subsequent code on the current page. I imagine it was at the time quite a strange idea, but it quickly became very popular because similar to URLs they are easily shareable, and since you can drag them and store them in your bookmark bar, they are one-click. thehistoryoftheweb.com #

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