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
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 […]