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Pixel Art Finds Its Home on the Web

Published: July 16, 2018

The design community in particular has been a rather dynamic part of the fabric of the web from its earliest […]

Browsers

A Mini Browser for the Masses

Published: July 10, 2018

If you don’t know much about the Opera browser, that’s probably because their market share in the United States has […]

Breakthroughs

Technocratic Panic at the Millennium and the Real Threat Beneath the Code

Published: July 2, 2018

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

Significant Websites

Reddit v. Digg: A Difference in Approach

Published: June 25, 2018

Jessica Livingston has a passion for the web’s future. It’s what lead her, in March of 2005, to quit her […]

Code

The History of Rewriting PHP

Published: June 18, 2018

If you work on the web, you know that with software, things don’t always go right the first time. The […]

Significant Websites

Discovering the True Meaning of the Web

Published: May 29, 2018

In the late 1980’s, Aliza Sherman moved to New York City and took a job in the music business, helping […]

Significant Websites

GoTo: The Forgotten Search Engine

Published: May 22, 2018

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

Code

Making a Framework for the Web

Published: May 7, 2018

It started with a simple manifesto. A manifesto posted online with 37 guiding principles, small phrases showcasing big ideas like […]

Significant Websites

The Unlikely Pioneers of the Early Web

Published: April 23, 2018

How many websites are there? That’s not an easy question to answer. The web is, by its very nature, decentralized […]

Significant Websites

The Winding Tale of Neopets

Published: April 16, 2018

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

Tools

15 Years of WordPress

Published: April 2, 2018

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

Standards

A Short History of WaSP and Why Web Standards Matter

Published: March 26, 2018

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

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