The History of the Web

A web magazine springs up from the depths of Hotwired, and captures the imagination and attention of a growing web audience.

In 1995, Netscape Navigator was enjoying a meteoric rise to the top of the browser market. They had only released […]

There’s this story about Ebay and Pez that used to go around. It goes something like this: Pierre Omidyar, the […]

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

If you work on the web, you know that with software, things don’t always go right the first time. The […]

You may have heard the name Jeffrey Zeldman before. He’s often referred to as the godfather of the web, and […]

In the late 1980’s, Aliza Sherman moved to New York City and took a job in the music business, helping […]

In the first few years of the web’s spread to ubiquity, traditional news publishers moved online. But a new kind of publisher was also born, one that was native to the web, with a whole new set of rules.

It might seem strange to talk about books on the web, but when designers first turned to books for a way to learn about the web, Lynda Weinman and Jennifer Robbins showed them the way.

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.

A history of Perl, Python, and the websites that rely on them.

The web distributes access, access to information, and access to one another. Access on the web is what brings us to small island off the coast of Fiji, where web pioneers forged a unique community.