The History of the Web

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.

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 […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

February 1, 1996 was an absolutely terrible day for Shabbir J. Safdar. Safdar believed deeply in the open web, so […]

This is a small chunk of history of rock music on the web. It begins in Santa Cruz. Michael Goldberg […]

Internet Radio has been attempted so many times in the history of the web that it’s hard to keep track. With each time came a new innovation, and in most cases, a new way to fail.