The History of the Web

Neopets was a massively successful and inclusive digital world, but I think people focus far too much on its advertising […]

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.

I’ve been digging into the history of search engines and centralized platforms lately. Mostly my goal has been to uncover […]

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.

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

This is a small chunk of history of rock music on the web. It begins in Santa Cruz. Michael Goldberg […]

There’s this story about Ebay and Pez that used to go around. It goes something like this: Pierre Omidyar, the […]

Communities on the web often formed around common interests and niches. As they grew, their utility began to shift to more mainstream elements

In the late 1980’s, Aliza Sherman moved to New York City and took a job in the music business, helping […]

In the first few years of the web’s spread to ubiquity, traditional news publishers moved online. But a new kind of publisher was also born, one that was native to the web, with a whole new set of rules.

It might seem strange to talk about books on the web, but when designers first turned to books for a way to learn about the web, Lynda Weinman and Jennifer Robbins showed them the way.

Geocities is likely a site you’ve heard of. It may even have been a site that you used. It’s origin, and the movement it later inspired, is an incredible story of self-expression and serendipity.