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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Almost (Standards) Doesn’t Count
Published: March 12, 2018
In 2008, the team at Microsoft found themselves in quite the pickle. Let me back up. In 2002, the team […]
The Day(s) The Web Fought Back
Published: February 26, 2018
February 1, 1996 was an absolutely terrible day for Shabbir J. Safdar. Safdar believed deeply in the open web, so […]