The History of the Web

The history of JSON is the history of the people that created it, and what they set out to do with the software they wrote.

Has the web become more productized?

On the early web, some content pioneers experimented with interactive, community-fed, literate smut.

News used to be behind a paywall, or not. But then a publication figured out how to do both.

There’s a word for what you’re feeling. It’s anemoia. And it’s completely made up.

Way before social media, listservs acted as a glue that held the web community together.

You have a few options. How much time you got?

When the iPhone was released, two apps rushed to market in a battle over geolocation that would come to be briefly known as the “location wars”

Is a website the same as a web application? That question is older than you think

I recently went on a bit of a journey to figure out: did Queen Elizabeth surf the early web?

When Paul Phillips the web is at its best when its being useless he did the only thing he could think of. He built his own useless site to catalog it.

There’s one site that is connected to Facebook, YouTube, Yahoo!, Twitter, and many others. And you probably never think about it.