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 […]
Writing About the Web… On the Web
Published: April 18, 1998
People thought a magazine about the web would never work. People thought a magazine about the web on the web would never work. They both did.
GoTo: The Forgotten Search Engine
Published: February 19, 1998
I’ve been digging into the history of search engines and centralized platforms lately. Mostly my goal has been to uncover […]
Why You’d Click on ChickClick
Published: February 1, 1998
When two sisters hit the web with their new idea, it was unlike anything anyone had seen. That one site, ChickClick, inspired so many more and crafted a foundational network of the early web.
How Dreamweaver Got Its Name
Published: December 1, 1997
When Kevin Lynch started going around and talking to web designers, he wrote everything down. He was interested in the hurdles that […]
The History of the Browser Wars: When Netscape Met Microsoft
Published: October 1, 1997
Let’s talk about about the “Browser Wars.” They kicked off in the mid-90s, at a time when the world was […]
Pixel Art Finds Its Home on the Web
Published: May 2, 1997
The design community in particular has been a rather dynamic part of the fabric of the web from its earliest […]
The Web and the Webbys Grew Together
Published: March 6, 1997
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.
The HTML Tags Everybody Hated
Published: January 10, 1997
It’s easy to forget that HTML, which is an extremely simple programming language, is actually just an exceedingly complex markup language. HTML was one […]
Plagued by Ads
Published: January 1, 1997
Here’s a message from the creator of the first-ever pop-up ad: It’s obvious now that what we did was a […]
A Look Back at the History of CSS
Published: December 17, 1996
When you think of HTML and CSS, you probably imagine them as a package deal. But for years after Tim […]
Content Management Made Simple
Published: October 1, 1996
Content Management Systems — software that helps people author and publish websites — likely dates back farther than you think. The problem is, it wasn’t quite called that yet.