The History of the Web

In 1998, Bruce and Susan Abelson launched Open Diary. Building on personal site builders like Geocities, Angelfire, and Tripod, Open […]

In the open source community, there is perhaps no greater gift than code. This is about that time 135,000 lines of gifted code created a new era of JavaScript

Way before social media, listservs acted as a glue that held the web community together.

In 1998, Netscape announced a bold new plan to the world. One announcement was expected. The other took the tech world by surprise.

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

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.

The word homepage came into popular use in the mid to late 90’s, but it’s origin dates back to the web’s beginning.

The World Wide Web Foundation began as a way to bring the web to everyone. In these trying times, it is needed more than ever.

Offline browsing has been a kind of holy grail of web development. In the mid-90’s, it was a source of excitement, speculation, and soaring valuations.

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.

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.

From a browser engine that started as the lesser known option used in an obscure browser to one that would take hold over the entire browser market.