The History of the Web

I’m reflecting on a lot of really interesting responses I got last month to my article about feeling lonely on the web. And maybe now, I’m feeling a bit less so. So thank you to everyone who responded.

In the early 1990s, three companies pioneered online transactions, facing challenges of security and user accessibility. They are hardly known today.

By the end of 1995, the web moved outward and into the hands of everyone.

In 1995, a new industry was born, and design became a true practice.

The world changed a lot in 1995. And for the web, it was a transformational year.

The earliest work with selling things online was all about reaching a shopping public ready to log on and start. But along the way, they found a whole new audience for shopping, which changed the way we think about commerce on the web..

The breakthroughs of the web are often compared to the printing press. But could the former exist without the latter?

Early computers faced unexpected failures, and that gave us graceful degradation. But on the web, we needed something different. We needed progressive enhancement.

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