The History of the Web

The web is filled with rundowns of this JavaScript framework versus that one. But we don’t often take the time to understand why they were built in the first place.

Accessibility is one of the foundational principles of the World Wide Web. Fighting to preserve that principle are the creators behind the most powerful tools, some of which still exist today.

Benjamin Sun and Omar Wasow met for the first time in 1999. They had both recently struck out on the […]

It might seem strange to talk about books on the web, but when designers first turned to books for a way to learn about the web, Lynda Weinman and Jennifer Robbins showed them the way.

The web has always belonged to all of us. That is to say its protocols and underlying technology are products […]

This is a small chunk of history of rock music on the web. It begins in Santa Cruz. Michael Goldberg […]

In the beginning, the web had no memory. When you followed a link to a new page, everything you did […]

The story of how responsive images made its way into the browser doubles as an inside look at the standards […]

In the first few years of the web’s spread to ubiquity, traditional news publishers moved online. But a new kind of publisher was also born, one that was native to the web, with a whole new set of rules.

The design community in particular has been a rather dynamic part of the fabric of the web from its earliest […]

If you don’t know much about the Opera browser, that’s probably because their market share in the United States has […]

It’s been over seventeen years since the world ended. Or, rather, it was supposed to be The End of the […]