A Moment In Time with Editors
Published: August 1, 1996
Let’s go back to 1996, in Boston, at the annual Macworld Expo. Not a great year for Apple mind you. […]
Tables for Layout? Absurd.
Published: June 1, 1996
Web designers that cut their teeth in the late 90’s and early 2000’s probably remember table-based layouts. This was a […]
A Love Letter to Net.Art
Published: May 21, 1996
In an interview for her book Internet Art in 2004, writer Rachel Greene had this to say about why she felt […]
Putting Web Accessibility First
Published: April 7, 1996
Quite frankly, my feeling is that the primary reason why the web is not accessible or not wholly accessible to […]
Offline Browsing Like It’s 1995
Published: February 13, 1996
Offline browsing has been a kind of holy grail of web development. In the mid-90’s, it was a source of excitement, speculation, and soaring valuations.
The Day(s) The Web Fought Back
Published: February 8, 1996
February 1, 1996 was an absolutely terrible day for Shabbir J. Safdar. Safdar believed deeply in the open web, so […]
The Online World of High Taste and Rock Music
Published: December 2, 1995
This is a small chunk of history of rock music on the web. It begins in Santa Cruz. Michael Goldberg […]
Surfing Through the Digital Airwaves: A History of Internet Radio
Published: November 14, 1995
Internet Radio has been attempted so many times in the history of the web that it’s hard to keep track. With each time came a new innovation, and in most cases, a new way to fail.
The Web After Suck
Published: October 3, 1995
A web magazine springs up from the depths of Hotwired, and captures the imagination and attention of a growing web audience.
The 10-Day Programming Language (Is Kind of a Myth)
Published: September 18, 1995
In 1995, Netscape Navigator was enjoying a meteoric rise to the top of the browser market. They had only released […]
eBay, API’s, and the Connected Web
Published: September 3, 1995
There’s this story about Ebay and Pez that used to go around. It goes something like this: Pierre Omidyar, the […]
A Sense of Community: From Newgrounds to MLKSHK
Published: July 6, 1995
Communities on the web often formed around common interests and niches. As they grew, their utility began to shift to more mainstream elements