Getting to the Picture Element
Published: August 20, 2018
The story of how responsive images made its way into the browser doubles as an inside look at the standards […]
Salon, Slate, and a History of the Tricky Business of Publishing Online
Published: August 6, 2018
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.
Pixel Art Finds Its Home on the Web
Published: July 16, 2018
The design community in particular has been a rather dynamic part of the fabric of the web from its earliest […]
A Mini Browser for the Masses
Published: July 10, 2018
If you don’t know much about the Opera browser, that’s probably because their market share in the United States has […]
Technocratic Panic at the Millennium and the Real Threat Beneath the Code
Published: July 2, 2018
It’s been over seventeen years since the world ended. Or, rather, it was supposed to be The End of the […]
Reddit v. Digg: A Difference in Approach
Published: June 25, 2018
Jessica Livingston has a passion for the web’s future. It’s what lead her, in March of 2005, to quit her […]
The History of Rewriting PHP
Published: June 18, 2018
If you work on the web, you know that with software, things don’t always go right the first time. The […]
Discovering the True Meaning of the Web
Published: May 29, 2018
In the late 1980’s, Aliza Sherman moved to New York City and took a job in the music business, helping […]
GoTo: The Forgotten Search Engine
Published: May 22, 2018
I’ve been digging into the history of search engines and centralized platforms lately. Mostly my goal has been to uncover […]
Making a Framework for the Web
Published: May 7, 2018
It started with a simple manifesto. A manifesto posted online with 37 guiding principles, small phrases showcasing big ideas like […]
The Unlikely Pioneers of the Early Web
Published: April 23, 2018
How many websites are there? That’s not an easy question to answer. The web is, by its very nature, decentralized […]
The Winding Tale of Neopets
Published: April 16, 2018
Neopets was a massively successful and inclusive digital world, but I think people focus far too much on its advertising […]