The History of the Web

In 1998, Bruce and Susan Abelson launched Open Diary. Building on personal site builders like Geocities, Angelfire, and Tripod, Open […]

When the Allaire brothers were looking for a way to build websites, nothing stuck out. So they built their own and called it Coldfusion.

It was January of 2003, and 19 year old blogger and amateur programmer Matt Mullenweg was distraught. In a post […]

Here’s a message from the creator of the first-ever pop-up ad: It’s obvious now that what we did was a […]

When Kevin Lynch started going around and talking to web designers, he wrote everything down. He was interested in the hurdles that […]

By 2001, the world blog had entered Internet vernacular, both as a noun and a verb. Mena Trott was one of these […]

Flash is a definitive part of the web’s history. And like many technologies that get caught in the web’s web, […]

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.

Let’s go back to 1996, in Boston, at the annual Macworld Expo. Not a great year for Apple mind you. […]