The Right to Link
Published: January 1, 2005
You can link to anything on the web. That’s a strength. And yet the right to link has been dragged into court on a regular basis for decades. Why is that?
It’s 1997 And You Want to Take a Flight
Published: January 1, 2005
You might be surprised by what options you have. Already, in the late-90’s, travel was abuzz on the web. And the competition was fierce.
Feeling Lonely on the Net
Published: January 1, 2005
There are plenty who make the case that the web makes us lonely. But sometimes, the opposite is true.
The mid-90’s was the era of the City Guide
Published: January 1, 2005
1996 was the year of the city guide. By 1998, they were already gone.
We Made These Sites for Kids?
Published: January 1, 2005
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.
Web Components Before Web Components
Published: January 1, 2005
A decade before modern day web components, Microsoft had already hit on a formula for their success.
21st Century Community
Published: January 1, 2005
In 1999, the word “community” took on a new meaning on the web. One that would have a lasting impact for years to come.
Gowalla, Foursquare and the (very) brief history of the Location Wars
Published: January 1, 2005
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”
The Long Tail of Uselessness
Published: January 1, 2005
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.
Spiderwoman, Wise-Women: Listservs to connect
Published: January 1, 2005
Way before social media, listservs acted as a glue that held the web community together.
It’s Time to Pay the Meter
Published: January 1, 2005
News used to be behind a paywall, or not. But then a publication figured out how to do both.
“Playboy’s body with the New Yorker’s brain”
Published: January 1, 2005
On the early web, some content pioneers experimented with interactive, community-fed, literate smut.