The History of the Web

In 2008, the team at Microsoft found themselves in quite the pickle. Let me back up. In 2002, the team […]

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

The web, as a visual and interactive medium, is still pretty new. Designing for the web has always meant striking […]

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

Geocities is likely a site you’ve heard of. It may even have been a site that you used. It’s origin, and the movement it later inspired, is an incredible story of self-expression and serendipity.

I could have titled this “A Tale of Two Acquisitions,” but I already used that one. Still, we’re going to […]

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

Archiving the web is an important mission and the resources it requires is immense. It is thanks to a select few that it gets done at all.

A lot can be done with each pixel on a website, but only a few people have tried creating websites one pixel at a time.

I’d really recommend reading a thread on Eric Meyer’s blog from early 2007. In it, he poses a pretty simple […]

Communities on the web often formed around common interests and niches. As they grew, their utility began to shift to more mainstream elements