The History of the Web

With search getting worse by the day, maybe it’s time we rebounded in the other direction. The long forgotten directory.

In 1995, a new industry was born, and design became a true practice.

The world changed a lot in 1995. And for the web, it was a transformational year.

A home online is about as essential as it gets. But we need to make that easier. Where are we heading to build this new web together?

The earliest work with selling things online was all about reaching a shopping public ready to log on and start. But along the way, they found a whole new audience for shopping, which changed the way we think about commerce on the web..

When we think about AI, we can’t only think of what it has generated. We need to think about what it does to what the world has already created.

The breakthroughs of the web are often compared to the printing press. But could the former exist without the latter?

Early computers faced unexpected failures, and that gave us graceful degradation. But on the web, we needed something different. We needed progressive enhancement.

The term mainstream media is so common these days, we can forget where it came from. But it has an interesting connection with the web.

There is something you can do to help the open web. Put yourself on it.

There’s a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in predictive technology, driven by sophisticated algorithms that provide real-time recommendations. And it was launched in 1995.

When you get down to it, a lot of the web is just lists. And that’s kind of what it was meant for.