The History of the Web

How this one small browser quirk turned into a tool used by countless people for decades.

I just learned that Molly Holzschlag has passed. She was a tireless advocate for the principles of the open web. […]

In 1994, Ted Leonsis was the head of the new media marketing firm he created, Redgate Communications, spun out six […]

On July 28, 1993, a group of web pioneers met in a small room for a few days. For many, it was the first time they had ever met.

I got a bit caught up this month, so I had to delay a couple of things, but I’ll be […]

There is a lot out there about the dot-com bubble, and its subsequent burst. I tried to limit the scope […]

This is it! As of today, I’ve put all of the chapters I’ve written up on it’s own site. I’ve also […]

The Mosaic browser was released thirty years ago. It’s credited with a lot of firsts. When I wrote about Mosaic […]

I started this newsletter over five years ago. It started with a timeline and a single post. As I dug into research, I […]

The history of JSON is the history of the people that created it, and what they set out to do with the software they wrote.

Has the web become more productized?

On the early web, some content pioneers experimented with interactive, community-fed, literate smut.