The History of the Web

Here’s a message from the creator of the first-ever pop-up ad: It’s obvious now that what we did was a […]

When Kevin Lynch started going around and talking to web designers, he wrote everything down. He was interested in the hurdles that […]

Geocities is likely a site you’ve heard of. It may even have been a site that you used. It’s origin, and the movement it later inspired, is an incredible story of self-expression and serendipity.

I could have titled this “A Tale of Two Acquisitions,” but I already used that one. Still, we’re going to […]

When you think of HTML and CSS, you probably imagine them as a package deal. But for years after Tim […]

Archiving the web is an important mission and the resources it requires is immense. It is thanks to a select few that it gets done at all.

A lot can be done with each pixel on a website, but only a few people have tried creating websites one pixel at a time.

I’d really recommend reading a thread on Eric Meyer’s blog from early 2007. In it, he poses a pretty simple […]

Communities on the web often formed around common interests and niches. As they grew, their utility began to shift to more mainstream elements

The web’s first browser featured full color, read/write capabilities, and multiple windows. The second browser was a text-only command line tool. Guess which one people actually used?

The web has a long and storied history with text, typography and fonts. Most content on the web is text. And at […]

There’s this story about Ebay and Pez that used to go around. It goes something like this: Pierre Omidyar, the […]