The History of the Web

Archiving the web is an important mission and the resources it requires is immense. It is thanks to a select few that it gets done at all.

By 2001, the world blog had entered Internet vernacular, both as a noun and a verb. Mena Trott was one of these […]

Benjamin Sun and Omar Wasow met for the first time in 1999. They had both recently struck out on the […]

The web has always belonged to all of us. That is to say its protocols and underlying technology are products […]

Wikipedia is a free, online, user-edited and user-contributed encyclopedia. It is also a stupendously simple and almost inevitable idea, but […]

Computer programmers like to squabble. I suppose this is true in any profession, but it is most certainly true for […]

It’s been over seventeen years since the world ended. Or, rather, it was supposed to be The End of the […]

The politics of campaigns have been massively influenced by the tonal shift of the web, and they will likely never be the same.

Neopets was a massively successful and inclusive digital world, but I think people focus far too much on its advertising […]

How would you structure a feed for syndicating blog content? Remember, it would need to be standard enough for a computer […]

In January of 1999, members of DoCoMo held a press conference in Tokyo, attended by only a handful of people. At […]

The favicon was a total experiment, the result of a bit of serendipity and luck.