The History of the Web

Ushahidi is a platform that uses the democratizing power of the web to open access to citizen journalists on the ground and shine a light where the truth is hidden.

How many websites are there? That’s not an easy question to answer. The web is, by its very nature, decentralized […]

The comedy web series was one of the more interesting and influential adaptions of the web medium. It reversed the principles of traditional entertainment to create videos that were more approachable.

Jessica Livingston has a passion for the web’s future. It’s what lead her, in March of 2005, to quit her […]

1996 was the year of the city guide. By 1998, they were already gone.

You might be surprised by what options you have. Already, in the late-90’s, travel was abuzz on the web. And the competition was fierce.

A lot can be done with each pixel on a website, but only a few people have tried creating websites one pixel at a time.

I could have titled this “A Tale of Two Acquisitions,” but I already used that one. Still, we’re going to […]

Benjamin Sun and Omar Wasow met for the first time in 1999. They had both recently struck out on the […]

The web has always belonged to all of us. That is to say its protocols and underlying technology are products […]

Wikipedia is a free, online, user-edited and user-contributed encyclopedia. It is also a stupendously simple and almost inevitable idea, but […]

The politics of campaigns have been massively influenced by the tonal shift of the web, and they will likely never be the same.