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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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.

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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.

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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

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The History of Rewriting PHP

Published: June 8, 1995

If you work on the web, you know that with software, things don’t always go right the first time. The […]

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