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The Beginning of Black Girls Code

Published: May 8, 2017

My dream of starting BlackGirlsCode… was born out of this frustration that “blacks in tech” are often the unmitigated invisible […]

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Technocratic Panic at the Millennium and the Real Threat Beneath the Code

Published: July 2, 2018

It’s been over seventeen years since the world ended. Or, rather, it was supposed to be The End of the […]

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RSS: A Well Formed Log Entry

Published: May 15, 2017

How would you structure a feed for syndicating blog content? Remember, it would need to be standard enough for a computer […]

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The Web and the Webbys Grew Together

Published: January 7, 2020

The Webby Awards was founded way back when no one knew if the web would take off. When we take a look at the Webbys, we see the web’s history.

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The Day(s) The Web Fought Back

Published: February 26, 2018

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

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How We Searched Before Search

Published: March 20, 2017

Believe it or not, there was a time before search engines. Discovery on the web was far more difficult. It was easy to get lost. That is, until a few different people created a map.

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What Happens When You Enter a URL In Your Browser of Choice

Published: April 15, 2019

There’s this scene in the second season of The Crown (if you watch enough old movies, you’ll see the same kind […]

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A Brief History of Hypertext

Published: February 20, 2017

Without hypertext, there would be no World Wide Web. But its name and conception predate the web’s creation by decades.

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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.

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