The History of the Web

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 […]

In an interview for her book Internet Art in 2004, writer Rachel Greene had this to say about why she felt […]

Quite frankly, my feeling is that the primary reason why the web is not accessible or not wholly accessible to […]

Offline browsing has been a kind of holy grail of web development. In the mid-90’s, it was a source of excitement, speculation, and soaring valuations.

February 1, 1996 was an absolutely terrible day for Shabbir J. Safdar. Safdar believed deeply in the open web, so […]

This is a small chunk of history of rock music on the web. It begins in Santa Cruz. Michael Goldberg […]

Internet Radio has been attempted so many times in the history of the web that it’s hard to keep track. With each time came a new innovation, and in most cases, a new way to fail.

A web magazine springs up from the depths of Hotwired, and captures the imagination and attention of a growing web audience.

In 1995, Netscape Navigator was enjoying a meteoric rise to the top of the browser market. They had only released […]

There’s this story about Ebay and Pez that used to go around. It goes something like this: Pierre Omidyar, the […]