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Discovering the True Meaning of the Web

Published: April 29, 1995

In the late 1980’s, Aliza Sherman moved to New York City and took a job in the music business, helping […]

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Salon, Slate, and a History of the Tricky Business of Publishing Online

Published: April 18, 1995

In the first few years of the web’s spread to ubiquity, traditional news publishers moved online. But a new kind of publisher was also born, one that was native to the web, with a whole new set of rules.

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The Books That Shaped How We Learn About the Web

Published: March 2, 1995

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.

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An Ode to Geocities

Published: November 1, 1994

Geocities is likely a site you’ve heard of. It may even have been a site that you used. It’s origin, and the movement it later inspired, is an incredible story of self-expression and serendipity.

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The Linguist and the Programmer

Published: October 17, 1994

A history of Perl, Python, and the websites that rely on them.

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When Rotuma Came to the Web

Published: October 2, 1994

The web distributes access, access to information, and access to one another. Access on the web is what brings us to small island off the coast of Fiji, where web pioneers forged a unique community.

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Making the Web For Everyone

Published: October 1, 1994

I talked a bit about the importance of the WWW Wizards Workshop last time in my recap on the importance […]

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The Window at the Cafe

Published: September 2, 1994

Thanks to the web, in 1999 (or thereabouts), you might find yourself at home, staring at the virtual window of your computer screen, looking out the very real windows of your favorite cyber café.

A Fun List of Browsers You’ve Never Heard Of

Published: June 1, 1994

There are the browsers that everyone’s heard of. And then there are some that, for whatever reason, faded away. These are the latter.

They Offered a Million Dollars to Surf The Web. Somebody Won.

Published: April 20, 1994

In 1995, it would be hard to believe that you could win a million dollars from surfing the web. Then, AOL made it possible.

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How We Searched Before Search

Published: June 30, 1993

Believe it or not, there was a time before search engines. Discovery on the web was far more difficult. It was easy to get lost. That is, until a few different people created a map.

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Before the Wars, Browsers Were Everywhere

Published: June 8, 1993

Before browsers were truly cross-platform, there was a time when each operating system had their browser of choice, and it was tailored to the needs of those users.

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