The History of the Web

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.

If you happened to live in Santa Cruz in 1994 you could sit down at your computer, open up your […]

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

The design community in particular has been a rather dynamic part of the fabric of the web from its earliest […]

If you don’t know much about the Opera browser, that’s probably because their market share in the United States has […]

It’s been over seventeen years since the world ended. Or, rather, it was supposed to be The End of the […]

Jessica Livingston has a passion for the web’s future. It’s what lead her, in March of 2005, to quit her […]

If you work on the web, you know that with software, things don’t always go right the first time. The […]

While looking into the rather storied history of Internet Cafe’s, I found myself following a kind of tangential story about […]

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

I’ve been digging into the history of search engines and centralized platforms lately. Mostly my goal has been to uncover […]

It started with a simple manifesto. A manifesto posted online with 37 guiding principles, small phrases showcasing big ideas like […]