The History of the Web

When you get down to it, a lot of the web is just lists. And that’s kind of what it was meant for.

In 2007, one person tried to lay claim to the term SEO. But SEO had been invented by a community. It couldn’t be owned.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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