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The Evolution of Blogging

Published: October 8, 2001

By 2001, the world blog had entered Internet vernacular, both as a noun and a verb. Mena Trott was one of these […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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How We Got the Favicon

Published: February 1, 1999

The favicon was a total experiment, the result of a bit of serendipity and luck.

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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 […]

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