The History of the Web

Ushahidi is a platform that uses the democratizing power of the web to open access to citizen journalists on the ground and shine a light where the truth is hidden.

How many websites are there? That’s not an easy question to answer. The web is, by its very nature, decentralized […]

The comedy web series was one of the more interesting and influential adaptions of the web medium. It reversed the principles of traditional entertainment to create videos that were more approachable.

The mid-2000’s were often referred to as the era of Web 2.0. That may have been an overused term, but it undeniably changed the way designers and developers approached their practice through patterns.

It started with a simple manifesto. A manifesto posted online with 37 guiding principles, small phrases showcasing big ideas like […]

If you don’t know much about the Opera browser, that’s probably because their market share in the United States has […]

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

Jessica Livingston has a passion for the web’s future. It’s what lead her, in March of 2005, to quit her […]

From a browser engine that started as the lesser known option used in an obscure browser to one that would take hold over the entire browser market.

This post was originally published on CSS-Tricks. On March 6, 2018, a new bug was added to the official Mozilla Firefox browser […]

The term AJAX may have not been coined until 2005, but it’s origin stretches all the way back to the early 2000’s, when browsers provided developers with the glue between clients and servers.

A lot can be done with each pixel on a website, but only a few people have tried creating websites one pixel at a time.