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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 […]

Significant Websites

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 […]

Significant Websites

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 […]

Tools

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 […]

Standards

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 […]

Standards

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.

Breakthroughs

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 […]

Design

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 […]

Tools

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 […]

Tools

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 […]

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