The History of the Web

The web’s first browser featured full color, read/write capabilities, and multiple windows. The second browser was a text-only command line tool. Guess which one people actually used?

The word homepage came into popular use in the mid to late 90’s, but it’s origin dates back to the web’s beginning.

Before the web, Gopher offered a way to connect to the Internet and share documents. And if things had gone a little differently, it might even be what we use to surf information today.

Ever wondered how people found about the web. The first transmission of its existence was a digital one, a Usenet post that sparked a following of early web pioneers.

Without hypertext, there would be no World Wide Web. But its name and conception predate the web’s creation by decades.

Tim Berners-Lee has said, on multiple occasions, the the first website in the US was one of the major reasons the web took off. But what did it do and why was it so important?

There’s this scene in the second season of The Crown (if you watch enough old movies, you’ll see the same kind […]

Why is it the <img> tag instead of the <image> tag? The answer, it turns out, dates back to one of the web’s earliest browsers and one of the web’s earliest discussions.

Before browsers were truly cross-platform, there was a time when each operating system had their browser of choice, and it was tailored to the needs of those users.

Believe it or not, there was a time before search engines. Discovery on the web was far more difficult. It was easy to get lost. That is, until a few different people created a map.

In 1995, it would be hard to believe that you could win a million dollars from surfing the web. Then, AOL made it possible.

There are the browsers that everyone’s heard of. And then there are some that, for whatever reason, faded away. These are the latter.