The History of the Web

Computer programmers like to squabble. I suppose this is true in any profession, but it is most certainly true for […]

It’s been over seventeen years since the world ended. Or, rather, it was supposed to be The End of the […]

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

Neopets was a massively successful and inclusive digital world, but I think people focus far too much on its advertising […]

How would you structure a feed for syndicating blog content? Remember, it would need to be standard enough for a computer […]

In January of 1999, members of DoCoMo held a press conference in Tokyo, attended by only a handful of people. At […]

The favicon was a total experiment, the result of a bit of serendipity and luck.

In the beginning, the web had no memory. When you followed a link to a new page, everything you did […]

This article was originally published in CSS-Tricks. In August of 2013, Aaron Gustafson posted to the WaSP blog. He had a […]

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.

I’ve been digging into the history of search engines and centralized platforms lately. Mostly my goal has been to uncover […]

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.