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Finding Our Digital Identities: A History of Social Media

Published: November 12, 2018

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

Connecting Computers to People, BBS And Its Effect on the Web

Published: November 5, 2018

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

The History of the Web’s Monthly Blogroll, October 2018

Published: October 29, 2018

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

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The Books That Shaped How We Learn About the Web

Published: October 22, 2018

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.

The Day the Web Died

Published: October 9, 2018

On August 7, 2010 Wired declared that the World Wide Web was dead. The cover that graced the newstands that month featured […]

Significant Websites

Dreaming Big on the Open Web

Published: October 1, 2018

The web has always belonged to all of us. That is to say its protocols and underlying technology are products […]

The History of the Web’s Monthly Blogroll, September 2018

Published: September 24, 2018

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

Significant Websites

The Online World of High Taste and Rock Music

Published: September 10, 2018

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

The Network

Your Privacy Policy Doesn’t Mean A Thing; Regulating Privacy on the Web

Published: September 4, 2018

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

The History of the Web’s Monthly Blogroll, August 2018

Published: August 27, 2018

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

Standards

Getting to the Picture Element

Published: August 20, 2018

The story of how responsive images made its way into the browser doubles as an inside look at the standards […]

Clearfix: A Lesson in Web Development Evolution

Published: August 13, 2018

The web community has, for the most part, been a spectacularly open place. As such, a lot of the best […]

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