Breakthroughs
Where does SEO come from?
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. Continue reading
The Web and the Webbys Grew Together
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. Continue reading
What Happens When You Enter a URL In Your Browser of Choice
There’s this scene in the second season of The Crown (if you watch enough old movies, you’ll see the same kind of thing). The scene depicts Princess Margaret, away from England and distraught after hearing news of a former love, as she attempts to get in contact with her sister, the Queen of England. She tells… Continue reading
Technocratic Panic at the Millennium and the Real Threat Beneath the Code
It’s been over seventeen years since the world ended. Or, rather, it was supposed to be The End of the World as We Know It. If that sounds like a big deal that’s because, at the time, it truly was. This is how things were supposed to go down. On January 1, 2000 at the… Continue reading
The Day(s) The Web Fought Back
February 1, 1996 was an absolutely terrible day for Shabbir J. Safdar. Safdar believed deeply in the open web, so much so that he started the non-profit organization Voter Telecommunications Watch (VTW) so that he could help protect it. That day, the first of February, the United States Congress decided to dismantle a part of… Continue reading
The Importance of Being on Usenet
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. Continue reading
RSS: A Well Formed Log Entry
How would you structure a feed for syndicating blog content? Remember, it would need to be standard enough for a computer to read and parse it, but simple enough for a developer to implement. Specific enough for web publishers, blogs, podcasts and all sorts of media, but universal enough for edge cases. Not to mention well… Continue reading
The Beginning of Black Girls Code
My dream of starting BlackGirlsCode… was born out of this frustration that “blacks in tech” are often the unmitigated invisible men (and women) in the room. – Kimberly Bryant Kimberly Bryant graduated from Vanderbilt University with a degree in Electrical Engineering. While still in college, she noticed something. Among students from her graduating class with… Continue reading
How We Searched Before Search
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. Continue reading
A Brief History of Hypertext
Without hypertext, there would be no World Wide Web. But its name and conception predate the web’s creation by decades. Continue reading
