Finding Our Digital Identities: A History of Social Media
Published: September 1, 2001
Benjamin Sun and Omar Wasow met for the first time in 1999. They had both recently struck out on the […]
Dreaming Big on the Open Web
Published: January 21, 2001
The web has always belonged to all of us. That is to say its protocols and underlying technology are products […]
Wikipedia: The Story of Collective Knowledge
Published: January 15, 2001
Wikipedia is a free, online, user-edited and user-contributed encyclopedia. It is also a stupendously simple and almost inevitable idea, but […]
SOAP And REST At Odds
Published: February 1, 2000
Computer programmers like to squabble. I suppose this is true in any profession, but it is most certainly true for […]
Technocratic Panic at the Millennium and the Real Threat Beneath the Code
Published: January 1, 2000
It’s been over seventeen years since the world ended. Or, rather, it was supposed to be The End of the […]
Let’s Talk About Elections on the Web
Published: December 17, 1999
The politics of campaigns have been massively influenced by the tonal shift of the web, and they will likely never be the same.
The Winding Tale of Neopets
Published: November 15, 1999
Neopets was a massively successful and inclusive digital world, but I think people focus far too much on its advertising […]
RSS: A Well Formed Log Entry
Published: March 15, 1999
How would you structure a feed for syndicating blog content? Remember, it would need to be standard enough for a computer […]
Before There Were Smartphones, There Was I-Mode
Published: February 22, 1999
In January of 1999, members of DoCoMo held a press conference in Tokyo, attended by only a handful of people. At […]
How We Got the Favicon
Published: February 1, 1999
The favicon was a total experiment, the result of a bit of serendipity and luck.
Your Privacy Policy Doesn’t Mean A Thing; Regulating Privacy on the Web
Published: October 21, 1998
In the beginning, the web had no memory. When you followed a link to a new page, everything you did […]
A Short History of WaSP and Why Web Standards Matter
Published: August 10, 1998
This article was originally published in CSS-Tricks. In August of 2013, Aaron Gustafson posted to the WaSP blog. He had a […]