The History of the Web

Way before social media, listservs acted as a glue that held the web community together.

When the iPhone was released, two apps rushed to market in a battle over geolocation that would come to be briefly known as the “location wars”

When Paul Phillips the web is at its best when its being useless he did the only thing he could think of. He built his own useless site to catalog it.

In 1999, the word “community” took on a new meaning on the web. One that would have a lasting impact for years to come.

A decade before modern day web components, Microsoft had already hit on a formula for their success.

From Yahooligans! to Club Penguin, the kinds of sites we made for kids on the early web were a bit unsteady, but formative and fun for the first web generation.

You can link to anything on the web. That’s a strength. And yet the right to link has been dragged into court on a regular basis for decades. Why is that?

If you’re a developer today, you likely take advantage of built in tools for web debugging every day. They came from the smallest places, and it took years to get them where they are today.

Chapter 5 of my series is out now, so make sure to get caught up! Plus, the weird web of the past and the independent web of the future.

This month, making a website has never been this easy. Understanding the web, however, is another story

If you’ve been following along with my series on CSS Tricks, well now you can listen to all of that great history, narrated by Jeremy Keith.

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