The History of the Web

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.

The web distributes access, access to information, and access to one another. Access on the web is what brings us to small island off the coast of Fiji, where web pioneers forged a unique community.

Hypertext simply means text that links to other text. It’s a concept that predates the web by several decades, though experiments with hypertext inspired its creation.

In 1995, Josh Quittner had big plans. He was launching his new site, Netly News as part of Pathfinder, Time […]

The rich history of Mozilla and Firefox is one that I imagine I’ll be coming back to from time to […]