The History of the Web

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Hot Hot Hot Sauce

Published: September 1, 2020

When they opened their door to the public in the early 1990’s, Hot Hot Hot had over 320 hot sauce […]

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CaringBridge: A Community Grown with Love

Published: November 5, 2019

Web communities started small, and many began with purpose. They radiated out from a single source, spread through close-knit circles […]

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The Tech: The First Newspaper published online

Published: February 18, 2020

The first newspaper published online is not what you think. It began with the smallest of steps, when a group of students chose to experiment with the web.

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The First Thing That Ever Sold Online Was Pizza

Published: July 30, 2018

If you happened to live in Santa Cruz in 1994 you could sit down at your computer, open up your […]

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Chabad-Lubavitch in Cyberspace

Published: April 30, 2018

”When you go to the Internet and you read about Judaism, you go straight to the intellect and the stereotypes […]

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The Web’s Youngest Teacher

Published: March 5, 2018

Sometime in the summer of 1999, Alyssa Daniels ran into a bit of problem on her site. With each passing […]

The History of the Web is a project by Jay Hoffmann.

Illustrations courtesy of Katerina Limpitsouni at unDraw.