The History of the Web

Tim Berners-Lee has said, on multiple occasions, the the first website in the US was one of the major reasons the web took off. But what did it do and why was it so important?

The Webby Awards was founded way back when no one knew if the web would take off. When we take a look at the Webbys, we see the web’s history.

This decade was not great for the web… There’s more than a few decade retrospective think-pieces making the rounds right […]

This post starts with a book. This book: It’s called Jargon: An Informal Dictionary of Computer Terms. That’s my copy. It’s […]

Join me at Flashback Conference, February 10-11 in Orlando In February, I’ll be in Orlando, Florida giving a talk at […]

You are reading this somewhere. On your laptop or on your phone or in your email or RSS reader. If […]

Web communities started small, and many began with purpose. They radiated out from a single source, spread through close-knit circles […]

A Great Reckoning I missed this last month, but if you read one thing from this months weblog, I ask […]

In 1995, Netscape Navigator was enjoying a meteoric rise to the top of the browser market. They had only released […]

The Darker Side of Blogging We web folk tend to look at the olden days of blogging as a simpler […]

In an interview for her book Internet Art in 2004, writer Rachel Greene had this to say about why she felt […]

In Chapter 2 of what I’m calling my complete history, I traced one of the most massive shifts in the […]