The History of the Web

In the beginning, the web had no memory. When you followed a link to a new page, everything you did […]

This article was originally published in CSS-Tricks. In August of 2013, Aaron Gustafson posted to the WaSP blog. He had a […]

People thought a magazine about the web would never work. People thought a magazine about the web on the web would never work. They both did.

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 […]