The History of the Web

If the web is participatory, and I really think it is, then how come blogging can feel so lonely?

With search getting worse by the day, maybe it’s time we rebounded in the other direction. The long forgotten directory.

A home online is about as essential as it gets. But we need to make that easier. Where are we heading to build this new web together?

When we think about AI, we can’t only think of what it has generated. We need to think about what it does to what the world has already created.

There is something you can do to help the open web. Put yourself on it.

Earlier this month, MTV News abruptly pulled their site off the web without warning, eliminating a virtual archive of pop […]

We don’t know how this AI thing will turn out, but there is much to be learned from the cycles of hype that have already occurred on the web.

On reclaiming the web’s lost humanity, and the people still very much trying to do it.

The indie web may be back. But if is, it is likely in a way we least expect.

The internet’s openness, championed by pioneers like Tim Berners-Lee, as well as concerns over its limitations, are explored in a retrospective on the history and future of the open web. The duality of its freedom – a gift and a constraint – points to the need for a more inclusive and diverse online landscape.

In my work on the History of the Web, that’s a view that I’ve often taken. But when we look back the web (sometimes fondly tinted with nostalgia) we must be careful to couch that perspective in the bias of its early history.