The History of the Web

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

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.

The webmaster was once a coveted and important role on the web. One day, it disappeared. This is what happened.

Flash is a definitive part of the web’s history. And like many technologies that get caught in the web’s web, […]

You are reading this somewhere. On your laptop or on your phone or in your email or RSS reader. If […]

The story of how responsive images made its way into the browser doubles as an inside look at the standards […]

My dream of starting BlackGirlsCode… was born out of this frustration that “blacks in tech” are often the unmitigated invisible […]

The web is filled with rundowns of this JavaScript framework versus that one. But we don’t often take the time to understand why they were built in the first place.

The web, as a visual and interactive medium, is still pretty new. Designing for the web has always meant striking […]

In 2008, the team at Microsoft found themselves in quite the pickle. Let me back up. In 2002, the team […]

Over the years, the web has assumed a few forms. That of a technological catalyst, a representation of the the […]

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.