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How Dreamweaver Got Its Name

Published: December 1, 1997

When Kevin Lynch started going around and talking to web designers, he wrote everything down. He was interested in the hurdles that […]

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The History of the Browser Wars: When Netscape Met Microsoft

Published: October 1, 1997

Let’s talk about about the “Browser Wars.” They kicked off in the mid-90s, at a time when the world was […]

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Pixel Art Finds Its Home on the Web

Published: May 2, 1997

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

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The Web and the Webbys Grew Together

Published: March 6, 1997

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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The HTML Tags Everybody Hated

Published: January 10, 1997

It’s easy to forget that HTML, which is an extremely simple programming language, is actually just an exceedingly complex markup language. HTML was one […]

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Plagued by Ads

Published: January 1, 1997

Here’s a message from the creator of the first-ever pop-up ad: It’s obvious now that what we did was a […]

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A Look Back at the History of CSS

Published: December 17, 1996

When you think of HTML and CSS, you probably imagine them as a package deal. But for years after Tim […]

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A Moment In Time with Editors

Published: August 1, 1996

Let’s go back to 1996, in Boston, at the annual Macworld Expo. Not a great year for Apple mind you. […]

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Tables for Layout? Absurd.

Published: June 1, 1996

Web designers that cut their teeth in the late 90’s and early 2000’s probably remember table-based layouts. This was a […]

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A Love Letter to Net.Art

Published: May 21, 1996

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

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Putting Web Accessibility First

Published: April 7, 1996

Quite frankly, my feeling is that the primary reason why the web is not accessible or not wholly accessible to […]

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Offline Browsing Like It’s 1995

Published: February 13, 1996

Offline browsing has been a kind of holy grail of web development. In the mid-90’s, it was a source of excitement, speculation, and soaring valuations.

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