Chabad-Lubavitch in Cyberspace
Published: April 30, 2018
”When you go to the Internet and you read about Judaism, you go straight to the intellect and the stereotypes […]
The Unlikely Pioneers of the Early Web
Published: April 23, 2018
How many websites are there? That’s not an easy question to answer. The web is, by its very nature, decentralized […]
The Winding Tale of Neopets
Published: April 16, 2018
Neopets was a massively successful and inclusive digital world, but I think people focus far too much on its advertising […]
15 Years of WordPress
Published: April 2, 2018
It was January of 2003, and 19 year old blogger and amateur programmer Matt Mullenweg was distraught. In a post […]
A Short History of WaSP and Why Web Standards Matter
Published: March 26, 2018
This article was originally published in CSS-Tricks. In August of 2013, Aaron Gustafson posted to the WaSP blog. He had a […]
Almost (Standards) Doesn’t Count
Published: March 12, 2018
In 2008, the team at Microsoft found themselves in quite the pickle. Let me back up. In 2002, the team […]
The Web’s Youngest Teacher
Published: March 5, 2018
If it was 1999, and you needed to learn to code, 13 year old Alyssa Daniels was there to help.
The Day(s) The Web Fought Back
Published: February 26, 2018
February 1, 1996 was an absolutely terrible day for Shabbir J. Safdar. Safdar believed deeply in the open web, so […]
The (Mostly) Complete History of Layout on the Web and Responsive Design
Published: February 12, 2018
The web, as a visual and interactive medium, is still pretty new. Designing for the web has always meant striking […]
Plagued by Ads
Published: January 22, 2018
Here’s a message from the creator of the first-ever pop-up ad: It’s obvious now that what we did was a […]
Women of the Web
Published: January 16, 2018
Last week, Sean Coates posted a question asking for names of women that helped to craft the web in its […]
How Dreamweaver Got Its Name
Published: January 9, 2018
When Kevin Lynch started going around and talking to web designers, he wrote everything down. He was interested in the hurdles that […]
