Ten Years Since NYT’s “Snow Fall”

Sarah Bahr at NYT notes that Snow Fall is 10 years old now. It was a big smurfing deal in the crossover world of web design and journalism. It was like the concept of “art-directed blog posts,” but for news stories, taken to an 11.

Here’s a collapsed version of how it all played out:

• Holy crap! Snow Fall is such an awesome immersive experience!
• Hmmm. Maybe this should be the future of journalism on the web. The bar has been raised.
• This turns out to be largely true. Lots more of this is done.
• 10 billion conversations in newsrooms happen that reference Snow Fall.
• Ughgk, I’m getting sick of hearing about Snow Fall.
• If I hear Snow Fall one more time, I’m walking out of this room.
• Snow Fall fades into the past.
• Snow Fall is properly honored, remembered, and people understand that, like everything else in the world, it depends.