The History of the Web

Ushahidi is a platform that uses the democratizing power of the web to open access to citizen journalists on the ground and shine a light where the truth is hidden.

By Emerson Dameron In the late ‘90s, tiny magazines were having a moment. The popularity of underground punk and indie […]

By 2000, Salon had made quite the name for itself with their quick, pithy headlines and stories that posted all hours of […]

I like to cap off each month with a few links I’ve found from my research or around the web. […]

The web is filled with rundowns of this JavaScript framework versus that one. But we don’t often take the time to understand why they were built in the first place.

Accessibility is one of the foundational principles of the World Wide Web. Fighting to preserve that principle are the creators behind the most powerful tools, some of which still exist today.

The web has been… unpredictable. We usually think it will go one way, only to see it go another. Case […]

danah boyd has studied social implications of our digital lives since the very beginning of her research career. In the […]

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

The Internet does not begin and end with the World Wide Web. Sometimes, if we want to truly understand how […]

Back in the earliest days of the web, some blogs used to have a blogroll. Somewhere on their site, usually […]

It might seem strange to talk about books on the web, but when designers first turned to books for a way to learn about the web, Lynda Weinman and Jennifer Robbins showed them the way.