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Flash And Its History On The Web

Published: August 7, 2017

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

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15 Years of WordPress

Published: April 2, 2018

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

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The Evolution of Blogging

Published: August 14, 2017

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

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How Dreamweaver Got Its Name

Published: January 9, 2018

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

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Plagued by Ads

Published: January 22, 2018

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

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A Moment In Time with Editors

Published: June 5, 2017

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

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The Window at the Cafe

Published: July 3, 2017

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.

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