The History of the Web

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.

In the early 2000s, Web 2.0 prompted new web standards, HTML5 and CSS3. Developers used ‘shims’ and ‘polyfills’ for browser compatibility, fostering innovation.

The indie web may be back. But if is, it is likely in a way we least expect.

The internet’s openness, championed by pioneers like Tim Berners-Lee, as well as concerns over its limitations, are explored in a retrospective on the history and future of the open web. The duality of its freedom – a gift and a constraint – points to the need for a more inclusive and diverse online landscape.

In my work on the History of the Web, that’s a view that I’ve often taken. But when we look back the web (sometimes fondly tinted with nostalgia) we must be careful to couch that perspective in the bias of its early history.

When the Allaire brothers were looking for a way to build websites, nothing stuck out. So they built their own and called it Coldfusion.

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