The History of the Web

I’ve been digging into the history of search engines and centralized platforms lately. Mostly my goal has been to uncover […]

When two sisters hit the web with their new idea, it was unlike anything anyone had seen. That one site, ChickClick, inspired so many more and crafted a foundational network of the early web.

When Kevin Lynch started going around and talking to web designers, he wrote everything down. He was interested in the hurdles that […]

Let’s talk about about the “Browser Wars.” They kicked off in the mid-90s, at a time when the world was […]

The design community in particular has been a rather dynamic part of the fabric of the web from its earliest […]

The Webby Awards was founded way back when no one knew if the web would take off. When we take a look at the Webbys, we see the web’s history.

It’s easy to forget that HTML, which is an extremely simple programming language, is actually just an exceedingly complex markup language. HTML was one […]

Here’s a message from the creator of the first-ever pop-up ad: It’s obvious now that what we did was a […]

When you think of HTML and CSS, you probably imagine them as a package deal. But for years after Tim […]

Content Management Systems — software that helps people author and publish websites — likely dates back farther than you think. The problem is, it wasn’t quite called that yet.

Let’s go back to 1996, in Boston, at the annual Macworld Expo. Not a great year for Apple mind you. […]

Web designers that cut their teeth in the late 90’s and early 2000’s probably remember table-based layouts. This was a […]