The History of the Web

From Yahooligans! to Club Penguin, the kinds of sites we made for kids on the early web were a bit unsteady, but formative and fun for the first web generation.

In 1998, Netscape announced a bold new plan to the world. One announcement was expected. The other took the tech world by surprise.

1996 was the year of the city guide. By 1998, they were already gone.

The mid-2000’s were often referred to as the era of Web 2.0. That may have been an overused term, but it undeniably changed the way designers and developers approached their practice through patterns.

A single website changed his life, and set him on a path to activism, and ultimately, exile.

My ongoing research has me taking another look at the Browser Wars and thinking about how they’re retelling themselves in real-time today.

You might be surprised by what options you have. Already, in the late-90’s, travel was abuzz on the web. And the competition was fierce.

There are plenty who make the case that the web makes us lonely. But sometimes, the opposite is true.

In 1995, it would be hard to believe that you could win a million dollars from surfing the web. Then, AOL made it possible.

Pseudo.com is a forgotten relic of the dot-com era. Was it ahead of its time? A moonshot that went too far? Or simply a piece of elaborate performance art?

A look at how we can save our websites from ourselves, and the stories that keep us going.

You can link to anything on the web. That’s a strength. And yet the right to link has been dragged into court on a regular basis for decades. Why is that?