The History of the Web

In the early 2000s, Web 2.0 prompted new web standards, HTML5 and CSS3. Developers used ‘shims’ and ‘polyfills’ for browser compatibility, fostering innovation.

Content Management Systems — software that helps people author and publish websites — likely dates back farther than you think. The problem is, it wasn’t quite called that yet.

The word homepage came into popular use in the mid to late 90’s, but it’s origin dates back to the web’s beginning.

A history of Perl, Python, and the websites that rely on them.

In 1995, Netscape Navigator was enjoying a meteoric rise to the top of the browser market. They had only released […]

This post was originally published on CSS-Tricks. On March 6, 2018, a new bug was added to the official Mozilla Firefox browser […]

The term AJAX may have not been coined until 2005, but it’s origin stretches all the way back to the early 2000’s, when browsers provided developers with the glue between clients and servers.

The web is filled with rundowns of this JavaScript framework versus that one. But we don’t often take the time to understand why they were built in the first place.

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

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

When you think of HTML and CSS, you probably imagine them as a package deal. But for years after Tim […]

Computer programmers like to squabble. I suppose this is true in any profession, but it is most certainly true for […]