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What Happened to the Webmaster

Published: June 16, 2020

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

Publishing

Surfing Through the Digital Airwaves: A History of Internet Radio

Published: May 5, 2020

Internet Radio has been attempted so many times in the history of the web that it’s hard to keep track. With each time came a new innovation, and in most cases, a new way to fail.

Browsers

Before the Wars, Browsers Were Everywhere

Published: April 21, 2020

Before browsers were truly cross-platform, there was a time when each operating system had their browser of choice, and it was tailored to the needs of those users.

Significant Websites

Let’s Talk About Elections on the Web

Published: March 3, 2020

The politics of campaigns have been massively influenced by the tonal shift of the web, and they will likely never be the same.

Code

The Linguist and the Programmer

Published: February 4, 2020

A history of Perl, Python, and the websites that rely on them.

Significant Websites

The First Website in the United States Was Made for Physicists

Published: January 21, 2020

Tim Berners-Lee has said, on multiple occasions, the the first website in the US was one of the major reasons the web took off. But what did it do and why was it so important?

Breakthroughs

The Web and the Webbys Grew Together

Published: January 7, 2020

The Webby Awards was founded way back when no one knew if the web would take off. When we take a look at the Webbys, we see the web’s history.

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Sorry Computer, You’re Not a Teapot

Published: November 19, 2019

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

Code

The 10-Day Programming Language (Is Kind of a Myth)

Published: October 1, 2019

In 1995, Netscape Navigator was enjoying a meteoric rise to the top of the browser market. They had only released […]

Significant Websites

A Love Letter to Net.Art

Published: September 17, 2019

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

Standards

Making the Web For Everyone

Published: July 23, 2019

I talked a bit about the importance of the WWW Wizards Workshop last time in my recap on the importance […]

Code

That Time MooTools Almost Broke the Web

Published: June 19, 2019

This post was originally published on CSS-Tricks. On March 6, 2018, a new bug was added to the official Mozilla Firefox browser […]

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