The History of the Web

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 […]

It’s easy to forget that HTML, which is an extremely simple programming language, is actually just an exceedingly complex markup language. HTML was one […]

By 2001, the world blog had entered Internet vernacular, both as a noun and a verb. Mena Trott was one of these […]

Flash is a definitive part of the web’s history. And like many technologies that get caught in the web’s web, […]

Wikipedia is a free, online, user-edited and user-contributed encyclopedia. It is also a stupendously simple and almost inevitable idea, but […]

The favicon was a total experiment, the result of a bit of serendipity and luck.

Ever wondered how people found about the web. The first transmission of its existence was a digital one, a Usenet post that sparked a following of early web pioneers.

Thanks to the web, in 1999 (or thereabouts), you might find yourself at home, staring at the virtual window of your computer screen, looking out the very real windows of your favorite cyber café.