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The Website that Predicted AI

Published: November 13, 2024

There’s a website developed with a personalized experience in mind. It touts major breakthroughs in predictive technology, driven by sophisticated algorithms that provide real-time recommendations. And it was launched in 1995.

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The crash that ended it all

Published: July 5, 2023

The Crash When the pieces began to fall in the early months of 2000, it happened quick. “It was the […]

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The mid-90’s was the era of the City Guide

Published: October 19, 2021

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

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It’s 1997 And You Want to Take a Flight

Published: August 17, 2021

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.

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Writing About the Web… On the Web

Published: February 2, 2021

People thought a magazine about the web would never work. People thought a magazine about the web on the web would never work. They both did.

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Why You’d Click on ChickClick

Published: September 16, 2020

When two sisters hit the web with their new idea, it was unlike anything anyone had seen. That one site, ChickClick, inspired so many more and crafted a foundational network of the early web.

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Bringing the Laughter, Week after Week

Published: July 21, 2020

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.

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Let’s Talk About Elections on the Web

Published: March 3, 2020

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

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The First Website in the United States Was Made for Physicists

Published: January 21, 2020

Tim Berners-Lee has said, on multiple occasions, the the first website in the US was one of the major reasons the web took off. But what did it do and why was it so important?

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A Love Letter to Net.Art

Published: September 17, 2019

In an interview for her book Internet Art in 2004, writer Rachel Greene had this to say about why she felt […]

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How to Use the Web To Show the Truth

Published: February 18, 2019

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.

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Finding Our Digital Identities: A History of Social Media

Published: November 12, 2018

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

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