The History of the Web

There’s this scene in the second season of The Crown (if you watch enough old movies, you’ll see the same kind […]

TL;DR I’m changing things up a bit. I’ll still be sharing history, but that history will look a bit different, and […]

The term AJAX may have not been coined until 2005, but it’s origin stretches all the way back to the early 2000’s, when browsers provided developers with the glue between clients and servers.

Each month, I send out a list of links from my research or around the web. Here’s the very best […]

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 […]