IPO’s Old and New Slack had its so-called “non-IPO” this month, which seems to have gone pretty well and came with its own bells and whistles and fanfare. It got me thinking back to other major tech IPO’s, the single largest still being Netscape, which kind of started this whole tech company going public to […]

The web’s history is always being written, and not just by me. So each month I like to go through and share bits of research and great posts that continue to explore the heart and history of the web. It’s my sites own personal weblog. Ask Me Anything If you’ve never been to Cake, it’s […]

The web’s history is always being written, and not just by me. So each month I like to go through and share bits of research and great posts that continue to explore the heart and history of the web. It’s my sites own personal weblog. Bringing Back the Indie Web With the many, many failures […]

There’s this scene in the second season of The Crown (if you watch enough old movies, you’ll see the same kind of thing). The scene depicts Princess Margaret, away from England and distraught after hearing news of a former love, as she attempts to get in contact with her sister, the Queen of England. She tells […]

TL;DR I’m changing things up a bit. I’ll still be sharing history, but that history will look a bit different, and come to you little less frequently than every week. First one goes out next week. Also, a redesign! Haven’t signed up yet? Now’s your chance: Thirty years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee handed his employers at […]

Each month, I send out a list of links from my research or around the web. Here’s the very best links I found in February. Recreating the First Web Browser at CERN After rebuilding the first ever website back in 2013, the CERN hack team came back together this year for an even more ambitious […]

I like to cap off each month with a few links I’ve found from my research or around the web. Here’s some cool links I found this month. The Other Art History: The Forgotten Cyberfeminists of ’90s Net Art Loney Abrams takes us back to the early ’90’s, when the ubiquity and accessibility of the […]