Bringing the Laughter, Week after Week
Published: July 21, 2020
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 Browser Engine That Could
Published: July 7, 2020
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.
Surfing Through the Digital Airwaves: A History of Internet Radio
Published: May 5, 2020
Internet Radio has been attempted so many times in the history of the web that it’s hard to keep track. With each time came a new innovation, and in most cases, a new way to fail.
Before the Wars, Browsers Were Everywhere
Published: April 21, 2020
Before browsers were truly cross-platform, there was a time when each operating system had their browser of choice, and it was tailored to the needs of those users.
Let’s Talk About Elections on the Web
Published: March 3, 2020
The politics of campaigns have been massively influenced by the tonal shift of the web, and they will likely never be the same.
The Linguist and the Programmer
Published: February 4, 2020
A history of Perl, Python, and the websites that rely on them.
The First Website in the United States Was Made for Physicists
Published: January 21, 2020
Tim Berners-Lee has said, on multiple occasions, the the first website in the US was one of the major reasons the web took off. But what did it do and why was it so important?
The Web and the Webbys Grew Together
Published: January 7, 2020
The Webby Awards was founded way back when no one knew if the web would take off. When we take a look at the Webbys, we see the web’s history.
Sorry Computer, You’re Not a Teapot
Published: November 19, 2019
You are reading this somewhere. On your laptop or on your phone or in your email or RSS reader. If […]
The 10-Day Programming Language (Is Kind of a Myth)
Published: October 1, 2019
In 1995, Netscape Navigator was enjoying a meteoric rise to the top of the browser market. They had only released […]
A Love Letter to Net.Art
Published: September 17, 2019
In an interview for her book Internet Art in 2004, writer Rachel Greene had this to say about why she felt […]
Making the Web For Everyone
Published: July 23, 2019
I talked a bit about the importance of the WWW Wizards Workshop last time in my recap on the importance […]