The History of the Web

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

In the late 1980’s, Aliza Sherman moved to New York City and took a job in the music business, helping […]

I’ve been digging into the history of search engines and centralized platforms lately. Mostly my goal has been to uncover […]

It started with a simple manifesto. A manifesto posted online with 37 guiding principles, small phrases showcasing big ideas like […]

How many websites are there? That’s not an easy question to answer. The web is, by its very nature, decentralized […]

Neopets was a massively successful and inclusive digital world, but I think people focus far too much on its advertising […]

It was January of 2003, and 19 year old blogger and amateur programmer Matt Mullenweg was distraught. In a post […]

This article was originally published in CSS-Tricks. In August of 2013, Aaron Gustafson posted to the WaSP blog. He had a […]

In 2008, the team at Microsoft found themselves in quite the pickle. Let me back up. In 2002, the team […]

February 1, 1996 was an absolutely terrible day for Shabbir J. Safdar. Safdar believed deeply in the open web, so […]

The web, as a visual and interactive medium, is still pretty new. Designing for the web has always meant striking […]

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