The History of the Web

Back in the earlier days of the web, some blogs used to have a blogroll. Somewhere on their site, usually […]

While looking into the rather storied history of Internet Cafe’s, I found myself following a kind of tangential story about […]

danah boyd has studied social implications of our digital lives since the very beginning of her research career. In the […]

In Chapter 2 of what I’m calling my complete history, I traced one of the most massive shifts in the […]

”When you go to the Internet and you read about Judaism, you go straight to the intellect and the stereotypes […]

If it was 1999, and you needed to learn to code, 13 year old Alyssa Daniels was there to help.

Last week, Sean Coates posted a question asking for names of women that helped to craft the web in its […]

On December 16th 2010, sometime in the morning, employees at Yahoo gathered together for an all-hands staff meeting, addressing some […]

If you’re on the web, chances are you’ve heard of LiveJournal. But you may not have heard of it lately. It […]

In mid-April of 1994, Netscape co-founders Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark boarded a plane from Silicon Valley to Illinois, held […]

This post starts with a book. This book: It’s called Jargon: An Informal Dictionary of Computer Terms. That’s my copy. It’s […]