The History of 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.

In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time 135,000 lines of gifted code created a new era of JavaScript

Earlier this month, MTV News abruptly pulled their site off the web without warning, eliminating a virtual archive of pop […]

In 2007, one person tried to lay claim to the term SEO. But SEO had been invented by a community. It couldn’t be owned.

We don’t know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of hype that have already occurred on the web.

On reclaiming the web’s lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it.