The History of the Web

I just learned that Molly Holzschlag has passed. She was a tireless advocate for the principles of the open 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.

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.

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

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”

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.

In 1999, the word “community” took on a new meaning on the web. One that would have a lasting impact for years to come.

In 2007, the web standards project entered the scene once more to push Microsoft to build its most standards-compliant browser to date.

A decade before modern day web components, Microsoft had already hit on a formula for their success.

From Yahooligans! to Club Penguin, the kinds of sites we made for kids on the early web were a bit unsteady, but formative and fun for the first web generation.

1996 was the year of the city guide. By 1998, they were already gone.