The History of the Web

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?

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.

There are plenty who make the case that the web makes us lonely. But sometimes, the opposite is true.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

News used to be behind a paywall, or not. But then a publication figured out how to do both.

On the early web, some content pioneers experimented with interactive, community-fed, literate smut.