How Dreamweaver Got Its Name
Published: January 9, 2018
When Kevin Lynch started going around and talking to web designers, he wrote everything down. He was interested in the hurdles that […]
The History of the Browser Wars: When Netscape Met Microsoft
Published: June 19, 2017
Let’s talk about about the “Browser Wars.” They kicked off in the mid-90s, at a time when the world was […]
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 […]
The Web and the Webbys Grew Together
Published: January 7, 2020
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.
The HTML Tags Everybody Hated
Published: August 28, 2017
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 […]
Plagued by Ads
Published: January 22, 2018
Here’s a message from the creator of the first-ever pop-up ad: It’s obvious now that what we did was a […]
A Look Back at the History of CSS
Published: November 6, 2017
When you think of HTML and CSS, you probably imagine them as a package deal. But for years after Tim […]
A Moment In Time with Editors
Published: June 5, 2017
Let’s go back to 1996, in Boston, at the annual Macworld Expo. Not a great year for Apple mind you. […]
Tables for Layout? Absurd.
Published: May 1, 2017
Web designers that cut their teeth in the late 90’s and early 2000’s probably remember table-based layouts. This was a […]
A Love Letter to Net.Art
Published: September 17, 2019
In an interview for her book Internet Art in 2004, writer Rachel Greene had this to say about why she felt […]
Putting Web Accessibility First
Published: June 6, 2017
Quite frankly, my feeling is that the primary reason why the web is not accessible or not wholly accessible to […]
Offline Browsing Like It’s 1995
Published: October 20, 2020
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.