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Origins of Blogging
Before there were personal homepages, there were people trying to figure out what the new World Wide Web was actually for. Today, "blog" sounds almost boring. It is just a website where someone publishes posts. But that description hides how strange the idea originally was. In the 1990s, publis... Read all
14 May 2026Origins of World Wide Web
Today, it is easy to use the words Internet and Web as if they mean the same thing. They do not. The Internet is the network. The World Wide Web is one system that runs on top of that network. And the Web was not the first system for finding and sharing information across the Internet... Read all
14 May 2026Origins of Web Design
There is something slightly funny about looking at the first websites today. They look unfinished. There are no hero sections, no hamburger menus, no cookie banners, no animated gradients, no giant typefaces, no carefully chosen color palettes. Sometimes there is barely anything that could... Read all
14 May 2026