Parallel Web Systems

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The Toolmakers exhibit explores the people who took the raw plumbing of the internet and shaped it into something ordinary people could use— browsers, operating systems, search engines, and the front doors that turned a network into a place. See this Google Search Appliance and more at the Museum of the Human Web, opening May 8th. museum.parallel.ai

Highlights from the Museum of the Human Web 🖥️ → museum.parallel.ai

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We are working towards a new web: one built for agents instead of humans. To celebrate the weird, whacky, and magical parts of the journey that made the human web, we are putting together something fun and unique! Online: museum.parallel.ai Pop-up in SF May 8-16

. @p0 is hosting a 1-week museum pop-up for the history of the human web, with items from 1940 to now. my favorite item is the Coolest Cooler (an og @Kickstarter project!) shoutout to @lukaslevert and @yangyou for another amazing website launch 🧡

a few months ago we had a whacky idea: what if we built a physical museum of the human web? the internet was a place many of us lived. i grew up pouring hours into every weird niche and the wayback machine the web has a new user now. we wanted to celebrate the weird, whacky, and magical parts that got us here open online today: museum.parallel.ai open to the public in SF May 8-16

I'm proud to announce the opening of the Museum of the Human Web. I grew up with the internet. RuneScape, MSN, Club Penguin, Wikipedia, Funnyjunk, Reddit. I knew my slice of it well and assumed that was most of the story. It wasn't. The web I grew up on sat on top of decades of work by people I'd never heard of, building things that didn't have to exist and mostly weren't paid to. The web isn't a product. It's closer to an organism — something that grew, and is still growing, and has reshaped us as much as we've shaped it. It's part of the human condition now. AI is now part of that organism too, so this felt like the right time to look back and celebrate everything human about the web. Massive thank you to @travers00, @paraga, @vanlancker, @chrisfralic, Marc Weber at the Computer History Museum, @MarkGraham , @rogaos , @DylanAbruscato, @asimov_co, @problemlibrary, @yangyou, Phoebe Darling... and to everyone who handed us a story or an artifact and trusted us with it. Come see it IRL on May 8th: museum.parallel.ai

Some reflections yesterday @tbpn on early meetings with @paraga and @vladtenev. Two thoughts to summarize: 1/ do hard projects - exceptional founders are comfortable building 'below the waterline'. @p0 and @RobinhoodApp both invested heavily in infra to create long-term gains for themselves + their customers. 2/ trust the graphs - Robinhood was $100Ms of assets and cohorts suggested it would be many $100Bs. It happened. Early agent graphs suggest 1000x+ usage of the web. Let's see...

Also, congratulations once again to Actively on raising their $45M Series B this week. Read the case study: parallel.ai/blog/case-stud…

We’re thrilled to be partnering with @useactively to power always-on monitoring for their Per-Account Agents™ Using a combination of Parallel’s Monitor and Task APIs, millions of Actively agents continuously and autonomously track and act on the complex signals their GTM customers rely on to move accounts through the funnel. Customers using Actively with Parallel’s web intelligence APIs report: - 23% higher win rates - 25% increase in revenue per rep - 2x conversion rates - 2x faster rep ramp time

cool surprise today watching @collision share the work we've done together with @stripe: agents searching the web directly with @p0, paying with @mpp

What we’re building for you and your agents: • Deploy with Projects: programmatically provision services from the CLI—now available to everyone. • Sell with @mpp: a protocol that lets agents know how to pay for services. • Buy with @link agent wallet: enable agents to spend on your behalf. Everything we announced at Stripe Sessions: stripe.com/blog/everythin….

Here's a great comparison of web search solutions featuring and highlighting Parallel Search, from @micLivs — looking forward to hearing more about your experience with PWS, Michael! michaellivs.com/blog/web-searc…

News: Parallel Web Systems has raised a $100M Series B. Just as the early web crackled to life on terminals a generation ago, the parallel web is coming online today. We are proud to deepen our partnership with @p0 in this round.

The Culture exhibit explores how the web moved from transmitting culture to generating its own— new languages, new rituals, and new ways of being together and being weird that no institution would have funded, approved, or predicted. See de_dust2 from Counter-Strike and more at the Museum of the Human Web, opening May 8th in San Francisco. museum.parallel.ai

My favorite artifact from museum.parallel.ai

I’ve recently become best friends with @eBay - the rare treasure in this box will soon be on display at museum.parallel.ai