Part 3 in an ongoing series about web history Chapter 1: First Things First, What is the Web? Chapter 2: How the Web Spread When No One Knew What it Was Chapter 3: 1995 Was The Most Important Year For The Web In 1998, the US Department of Justice filed a lawsuit against Microsoft, alleging […]

It’s 1991. Tim Berners-Lee comes into work, opens up his computer, that very same NeXT machine where the code for the World Wide Web originated just a year earlier, and checks his email. It’s a routine most of us have. He’s looking for something specific though and, after not too long, he finds it. Overnight […]

What is the World Wide Web? Well, that’s easy. It’s the Uniform Resource Locator (URL), the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), and Hypertext Markup Language (HTML). Three acronyms loosely connected on a decentralized string of servers and clients all bound together so that we can watch cat videos and check email and read the news and […]