The History of the Web

My dream of starting BlackGirlsCode… was born out of this frustration that “blacks in tech” are often the unmitigated invisible […]

Web designers that cut their teeth in the late 90’s and early 2000’s probably remember table-based layouts. This was a […]

In January of 1999, members of DoCoMo held a press conference in Tokyo, attended by only a handful of people. At […]

Before the web, Gopher offered a way to connect to the Internet and share documents. And if things had gone a little differently, it might even be what we use to surf information today.

It was 2004, and Ian Hickson had just got out of a W3C workshop organized by Adobe. The topic was how […]

The web’s history is filled to the brim with stops and starts and wrong turns. It is a technology that […]

Over the years, the web has assumed a few forms. That of a technological catalyst, a representation of the the […]

Believe it or not, there was a time before search engines. Discovery on the web was far more difficult. It was easy to get lost. That is, until a few different people created a map.

You may have heard the name Jeffrey Zeldman before. He’s often referred to as the godfather of the web, and […]

Why is it the <img> tag instead of the <image> tag? The answer, it turns out, dates back to one of the web’s earliest browsers and one of the web’s earliest discussions.

The web distributes access, access to information, and access to one another. Access on the web is what brings us to small island off the coast of Fiji, where web pioneers forged a unique community.

Without hypertext, there would be no World Wide Web. But its name and conception predate the web’s creation by decades.