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The HTML Tags Everybody Hated

Published: August 28, 2017

It’s easy to forget that HTML, which is an extremely simple programming language, is actually just an exceedingly complex markup language. HTML was one […]

Tools

The Evolution of Blogging

Published: August 14, 2017

By 2001, the world blog had entered Internet vernacular, both as a noun and a verb. Mena Trott was one of these […]

Tools

Flash And Its History On The Web

Published: August 7, 2017

Flash is a definitive part of the web’s history. And like many technologies that get caught in the web’s web, […]

Significant Websites

Wikipedia: The Story of Collective Knowledge

Published: July 31, 2017

Wikipedia is a free, online, user-edited and user-contributed encyclopedia. It is also a stupendously simple and almost inevitable idea, but […]

Browsers

How We Got the Favicon

Published: July 24, 2017

The favicon was a total experiment, the result of a bit of serendipity and luck.

Breakthroughs

The Importance of Being on Usenet

Published: July 17, 2017

Ever wondered how people found about the web. The first transmission of its existence was a digital one, a Usenet post that sparked a following of early web pioneers.

Tools

The Window at the Cafe

Published: July 3, 2017

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.

Code

SOAP And REST At Odds

Published: June 26, 2017

Computer programmers like to squabble. I suppose this is true in any profession, but it is most certainly true for […]

Browsers

The History of the Browser Wars: When Netscape Met Microsoft

Published: June 19, 2017

Let’s talk about about the “Browser Wars.” They kicked off in the mid-90s, at a time when the world was […]

Standards

Putting Web Accessibility First

Published: June 6, 2017

Quite frankly, my feeling is that the primary reason why the web is not accessible or not wholly accessible to […]

Tools

A Moment In Time with Editors

Published: June 5, 2017

Let’s go back to 1996, in Boston, at the annual Macworld Expo. Not a great year for Apple mind you. […]

Breakthroughs

RSS: A Well Formed Log Entry

Published: May 15, 2017

How would you structure a feed for syndicating blog content? Remember, it would need to be standard enough for a computer […]

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