The Decade-Long Path to Web Fonts
Published: September 19, 2017
The web has a long and storied history with text, typography and fonts. Most content on the web is text. And at […]
eBay, API’s, and the Connected Web
Published: September 5, 2017
There’s this story about Ebay and Pez that used to go around. It goes something like this: Pierre Omidyar, the […]
The HTML Tags Everybody Hated
Published: August 28, 2017
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 […]
The Evolution of Blogging
Published: August 14, 2017
By 2001, the world blog had entered Internet vernacular, both as a noun and a verb. Mena Trott was one of these […]
Flash And Its History On The Web
Published: August 7, 2017
Flash is a definitive part of the web’s history. And like many technologies that get caught in the web’s web, […]
Wikipedia: The Story of Collective Knowledge
Published: July 31, 2017
Wikipedia is a free, online, user-edited and user-contributed encyclopedia. It is also a stupendously simple and almost inevitable idea, but […]
How We Got the Favicon
Published: July 24, 2017
The favicon was a total experiment, the result of a bit of serendipity and luck.
The Importance of Being on Usenet
Published: July 17, 2017
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.
The Window at the Cafe
Published: July 3, 2017
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.
SOAP And REST At Odds
Published: June 26, 2017
Computer programmers like to squabble. I suppose this is true in any profession, but it is most certainly true for […]
The History of the Browser Wars: When Netscape Met Microsoft
Published: June 19, 2017
Let’s talk about about the “Browser Wars.” They kicked off in the mid-90s, at a time when the world was […]
Putting Web Accessibility First
Published: June 6, 2017
Quite frankly, my feeling is that the primary reason why the web is not accessible or not wholly accessible to […]