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And it was beautiful.

A group of designers and engineers from The Browser Company, then still polishing the now-famous Arc browser for macOS, decided to run a semi-secret experiment. They called it . arc on g+

Not on Google+ as in “built for it.” But on as in: they resurrected an old, read-only archive of public Google+ posts and rebuilt a browsing experience around it. Why resurrect the failed social network no one asked for? And it was beautiful

Arc on G+ didn’t modernize the content. Instead, it rendered every post in its original font (Google’s old “Open Sans”) but inside Arc’s split-view, command-bar-controlled interface. You could search posts by decade, Circle density, or even emoji frequency. or even emoji frequency.