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Tables for Layout? Absurd.

Published: May 1, 2017

Web designers that cut their teeth in the late 90’s and early 2000’s probably remember table-based layouts. This was a […]

The Network

Before There Were Smartphones, There Was I-Mode

Published: April 25, 2017

In January of 1999, members of DoCoMo held a press conference in Tokyo, attended by only a handful of people. At […]

The Network

What the Web Could Have Been

Published: April 18, 2017

Before the web, Gopher offered a way to connect to the Internet and share documents. And if things had gone a little differently, it might even be what we use to surf information today.

Standards

A Tale of Two Standards

Published: April 17, 2017

It was 2004, and Ian Hickson had just got out of a W3C workshop organized by Adobe. The topic was how […]

Standards

The Rise of CSS

Published: April 10, 2017

The web’s history is filled to the brim with stops and starts and wrong turns. It is a technology that […]

Publishing

Purple, Obama, and Single Serving Websites

Published: March 27, 2017

Over the years, the web has assumed a few forms. That of a technological catalyst, a representation of the the […]

Breakthroughs

How We Searched Before Search

Published: March 20, 2017

Believe it or not, there was a time before search engines. Discovery on the web was far more difficult. It was easy to get lost. That is, until a few different people created a map.

Design

Why Batman Forever is so Important for the Web

Published: March 13, 2017

You may have heard the name Jeffrey Zeldman before. He’s often referred to as the godfather of the web, and […]

Standards

The Origin of the IMG Tag

Published: March 7, 2017

Why is it the <img> tag instead of the <image> tag? The answer, it turns out, dates back to one of the web’s earliest browsers and one of the web’s earliest discussions.

Significant Websites

When Rotuma Came to the Web

Published: February 27, 2017

The web distributes access, access to information, and access to one another. Access on the web is what brings us to small island off the coast of Fiji, where web pioneers forged a unique community.

Breakthroughs

A Brief History of Hypertext

Published: February 20, 2017

Without hypertext, there would be no World Wide Web. But its name and conception predate the web’s creation by decades.

Publishing

The Web After Suck

Published: February 13, 2017

A web magazine springs up from the depths of Hotwired, and captures the imagination and attention of a growing web audience.

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