The History of the Web

One of the web’s most influential browsers has roots that date back to its earliest days, and an evolution that has transformed it several times over.

I could have titled this “A Tale of Two Acquisitions,” but I already used that one. Still, we’re going to […]

I’d really recommend reading a thread on Eric Meyer’s blog from early 2007. In it, he poses a pretty simple […]

The web’s history is filled to the brim with stops and starts and wrong turns. It is a technology that […]

It was January of 2003, and 19 year old blogger and amateur programmer Matt Mullenweg was distraught. In a post […]

Accessibility is one of the foundational principles of the World Wide Web. Fighting to preserve that principle are the creators behind the most powerful tools, some of which still exist today.

The web has a long and storied history with text, typography and fonts. Most content on the web is text. And at […]

Archiving the web is an important mission and the resources it requires is immense. It is thanks to a select few that it gets done at all.

By 2001, the world blog had entered Internet vernacular, both as a noun and a verb. Mena Trott was one of these […]

Benjamin Sun and Omar Wasow met for the first time in 1999. They had both recently struck out on the […]

The web has always belonged to all of us. That is to say its protocols and underlying technology are products […]

Wikipedia is a free, online, user-edited and user-contributed encyclopedia. It is also a stupendously simple and almost inevitable idea, but […]