The History of the Web

A history of Perl, Python, and the websites that rely on them.

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 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.

You are reading this somewhere. On your laptop or on your phone or in your email or RSS reader. If […]

In 1995, Netscape Navigator was enjoying a meteoric rise to the top of the browser market. They had only released […]

In an interview for her book Internet Art in 2004, writer Rachel Greene had this to say about why she felt […]

I talked a bit about the importance of the WWW Wizards Workshop last time in my recap on the importance […]

This post was originally published on CSS-Tricks. On March 6, 2018, a new bug was added to the official Mozilla Firefox browser […]

There’s this scene in the second season of The Crown (if you watch enough old movies, you’ll see the same kind […]

The term AJAX may have not been coined until 2005, but it’s origin stretches all the way back to the early 2000’s, when browsers provided developers with the glue between clients and servers.

Ushahidi is a platform that uses the democratizing power of the web to open access to citizen journalists on the ground and shine a light where the truth is hidden.

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.