“history” Archive
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- The Story of Web Framework Hono, From the Creator of Hono (by/via) ·
- Bundling Past, Present, and Future (by) · · videos, bundling, tooling, visions
- 5 Questions for Craig Buckler (by+/via) · · interviews, web-platform
- 2000s + 2010s = 10,000 (via) · · frontend-dogma
- The Problem of the Em Square (via) · · design, typography
- An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers (by) · · safari, apple, user-agents
- From Node.js to Deno: How It All Began (by+/via) · · videos, nodejs, deno, javascript, runtimes
- The HTML History and Optimization Cheat Sheet (by) · · html, optimization, cheat-sheets
- HTTP 1 vs. HTTP 2 vs. HTTP 3 (by) · · videos, protocols, http, comparisons
- Behind the Scenes: The Making of VS Code (by+/via) · · videos, code-editors, microsoft, vs-code
- The Only Widely Recognized JavaScript Feature Ever Deprecated (by) · · javascript
- Regexes Got Good: The History and Future of Regular Expressions in JavaScript (by/via) · · regex, javascript
- UX Is Dead. Long Live UX. (by/via) · · user-experience, economics
- Browsers, Cookies, and Surfing the Web: The Quirky History of Internet Lingo (via) · · web, terminology
- How Google Handles JavaScript Throughout the Indexing Process (by+/via) · · google, seo, web-apps, javascript, rendering
- A Plea for the Lost Practice of Information Architecture (by/via) · · information-architecture, link-lists
- Ten Years of Vue (With Evan You) (by+/via) · · podcasts, vuejs, apis
- Mythbusting DOM: Was DOM Invented Alongside HTML? (by) · · myths, dom, html
- The True Story—as Best I Can Remember—of the Origin of Mosaic and Netscape (by) · · videos, user-agents, mosaic, netscape
- 10 Years of Vue: The Past and the Future (by/via) · · videos, vuejs, visions
- Witnessing the Death of the Web as a News Medium (by) · · web, content, seo, sem
- The Long Path of JavaScript—from ES6 Until Today · · javascript, ecmascript
- Did We Fail to Develop the Next Generation of Designers? (via) · · design, career, leadership
- The Carcinization of Web Frameworks (by/via) · · frameworks, signals, server-side-rendering, visions, web-components
- At Some Point, JavaScript Got Good (by) · · javascript
- Design Deja Vu (by) · · design, html, css, comparisons
- The Slow Death of CSS Vendor Prefixes (by) · · css, vendor-extensions
- A Love Letter to Gen Z From Gen Y: Understanding React’s Evolution (by) · · react
- History of JS Interop in Dart (via) · · javascript, dart, interoperability
- History of Web Accessibility (by/via) · · videos, accessibility
- Relicensing and Rug Pulls (by) · · foss, licensing
- Node.js: The Documentary (by+/via) · · videos, nodejs
- I’m So Old: Web Edition (by) · · web
- Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter (by/via) · · web, anniversaries
- The “10× Engineer”: 50 Years Ago and Now (by) · · productivity, processes, career
- The 88×31 Archive · · web, images
- The Wax and the Wane of the Web (by/via) · · web-platform
- Filling Gaps With a Polyfill (by) · · polyfills, html, css, javascript
- How I Developed the 10 Usability Heuristics · · usability, heuristics
- The Evolution of Page Speed (by/via) · · videos, performance, metrics, optimization
- If It’s Not Usable, It’s Not Accessible (by/via) · · interviews, accessibility, usability
- Oh Shit Banners (by) · · design
- The Ghosts of Markup Past (by/via) · · html, web
- Using Date-Based CSS to Make Old Web Pages Look Old (by) · · css
- The Last 5 Years of V8’s Garbage Collector (by) · · javascript, javascript-engines, v8, garbage-collection, concurrency
- The Hellish History of HTML: An Incomplete and Personal Account (by/via) · · html
- Of Time and the Web (by/via) · · videos, web, processes
- Weird HTML Hacks (by) · · html, css, hacks, techniques
- How Independent Publishing Has Changed From the 1990s Until Today (by) · · writing, web
- NCSA Mosaic: How the First Mainstream Web Browser Changed the World Forever · · user-agents, mosaic
- Igalia Chats: Web History Part VI (by+/via) · · podcasts, web
- What Happened to Separation of Concerns in Frontend Development (by) · · maintainability, principles, css, frameworks
- Whatever Happened to the Zend Framework (by) · · frameworks, php
- The Saga of the Closure Compiler, and Why TypeScript Won (by) · · javascript, compiling, typescript
- TypeScript Origins: The Documentary (via) · · videos, typescript
- The Psychology of Web Performance (by/via) · · videos, performance, user-experience
- We are Chrome for Developers (via) · · user-agents, google, chrome, chromium, community, foss
- Bun Hype: How We Learned Nothing From Yarn (by) · · bun, yarn, dependencies
- Securing Your Node.js Apps by Analyzing Real-World Command Injection Examples (by) · · nodejs, security, examples
- CSS Lobotomized Owl Selector: A Modern Guide (by/via) · · css, selectors, guides
- Hover Triangles (by) · · navigation
- Changes Over the Last 25 Years of UX Research (by/via) · · user-experience, research
- Nostalgia in UX Design (by) · · user-experience, design
- Encoding: A Brief History and Its Role in Cybersecurity (by/via) · · encoding, unicode, security
- Getting Started—Understanding the History of Web Accessibility (by/via) · · videos, introductions, accessibility
- Are We There Yet? (by) · · css, colors
- 90s Websites—Key Characteristics and Examples (via) · · design, trends, navigation, colors, typography
- The Unlikely Story of UTF-8: The Text Encoding of the Web (by) · · unicode
- Internet Explorer: The 1st Browser to Support CSS (by+/via) · · videos, css, user-agents, microsoft, internet-explorer, support
- A History of Metaphors for the Internet (by/via) · · web, terminology
- How Far Back in Time Can I Take My Website’s Design · · web, design, html, css
- 30th Anniversary of Licensing the Web for General Use and at No Cost (by/via) · · web, web-platform, standards, foss, anniversaries
- A History of the World Wide Web From 1989 to the Present Day (via) · · web
- JSON vs. XML With Douglas Crockford (by+/via) · · podcasts, interviews, json, xml, comparisons
- XUL Layout Is Gone (by) · · xul, user-agents, mozilla, firefox
- That Time When SVG Almost Got Network Support for Raw Sockets · · svg, network
- All JavaScript and TypeScript Features From the Last 3 Years (via) · · javascript, typescript
- CSS Through the Ages (by) · · css
- React.js: The Documentary (via) · · videos, react
- The Story of the World Wide Web (by) · · books, web, user-agents, standards, css, community, browser-wars
- A Historical Reference of React Criticism (by) · · react
- ICANN and the 7 Keys to the Internet (by+/via) · · videos, podcasts, web, domains
- The BBC’s 15 Web Principles—15 Years Later (by) · · web, principles
- The Evolution of Scalable CSS (via) · · css, maintainability, scaling
- CSS Timeline (by) · · websites, css
- A Brief and Probably Only Partially Correct History of CSS Nesting (by) · · css, nesting
- Evolution of Manuals: UX Inspiration From History (via) · · user-experience, documentation
- Websites: Past and Present (by/via) · · web, design
- IE: RIP or BRB? (by/via) · · videos, user-agents, microsoft, internet-explorer
- The History of JavaScript (by) · · javascript
- Ancient Web Browsers · · websites, user-agents
- The Hidden History of Screen Readers (by/via) · · accessibility, user-agents, assistive-tech, screen-readers
- Body Margin 8px (by) · · css
- Farewell to HTML5Rocks (by/via) · · community, html
- Why Do We Call It Breadcrumbs? Diving Into the History of UI Components (via) · · design, naming
- A Brief History of Responsive Web Design (via) · · responsive-design
- The “Form” Element Created the Modern Web—Was It a Big Mistake? (by/via) · · html, forms, mistakes
- The Evolution of WCAG: A Postcard From the Front Lines (by/via) · · accessibility, wcag, standards
- Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks (by) · · javascript, frameworks
- Fonts for the Web: Rationale, 1996 (by/via) · · fonts
- Giving Web Standards a Seat at the Table (by) · · standards
- 1993: Mosaic Launches and the Web Is Set Free (by/via) · · user-agents, mosaic
- 20 Years of bram.us (by/via) ·
- 1992: The Web vs. Gopher, and the First External Browsers (by/via) ·
- Browser Wars (by/via) · · user-agents, browser-wars
- 1999: The Fall of Netscape and the Rise of Mozilla (by/via) · · user-agents, netscape, mozilla
- 1995: MySQL Arrives, Completing the LAMP Stack (by/via) · · databases, mysql, tech-stacks
- timefind (by) · · packages, npm
- 1995: Apache and Microsoft IIS Shake Up the Web Server Market (by/via) · · servers, apache, microsoft, iis
- 30 Years on From Introducing the Web to the World (by/via) · · web, anniversaries
- Where Did This Interaction Come From?—A Brief History of Interaction Design (by/via) · · interaction-design
- Blogged Answers: The Evolution of Redux Testing Approaches (by) · · redux, state-management, testing
- History of Web Browser Engines From 1990 Until Today · · user-agents, browser-engines
- 25 Years of CSS (by) · · css
- A General Introduction to Cloud Computing (by/via) · · introductions, cloud-computing, concepts
- What Apple, Google, and Amazon’s Websites Looked Like in 1999 (by/via) · · design
- Remembrance of Tags Past (by/via) · · web-platform, html, xhtml, css, hacks, doctype-switching
- The Need for Speed, 23 Years Later (by/via) · · performance, user-experience
- The History of JavaScript: A Journey From Netscape to Frameworks and Libraries (by/via) · · javascript, frameworks, libraries, netscape
- A History of CSS Through Fifteen Years of 24 Ways (by/via) · · css
- The Layers of the Web (by/via) · · videos, web
- A Brief History of the Original Browsers and the First Browser War (by) · · user-agents, browser-wars
- The History of Browser Wars (by/via) · · browser-wars, user-agents
- The History of CSS Resets (via) · · css, resetting
- The History of WordPress (via) · · wordpress
- Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web? (via) · · semantic-web, xml, rdf, metadata
- MongoDB Evolved (via) · · mongodb, release-notes
- How Declaration Repetition Developed Over Time, a Statistically Insignificant Sample (by) · · css, maintainability, metrics
- Reboot, Resets, and Reasoning (by/via) · · css, resetting
- A Look Back at the History of CSS (by/via) · · css, user-agents, doctype-switching, hacks
- The Web’s First (and Second) Browser (by) · · user-agents, line-mode, web
- Web Design Museum (by/via) · · websites, web
- The Glory Days of the Web (by) · · web-platform, html, css, javascript, frameworks, libraries
- A History of CSS Image Replacement (via) · · css, image-replacement, techniques, examples
- A Wordy History of Default Browser Styles and CSS Resets · · css, resetting
- A Brief(ish) History of the Web Universe: New Hope(s) (by) · · web, user-agents, mosaic, netscape
- A Brief(ish) History of the Web Universe: The Early Web (by) · · web, user-agents, mosaic
- A Brief(ish) History of the Web Universe: Time (by) · · web, html
- A Brief(ish) History of the Web Universe: The Pre-Web (by) · · web, sgml
- A Brief History of Web Design (by/via) · · videos, design
- A Brief History of HTML (by) · · html, wml, hdml, chtml, wap
- Google and HTML/CSS Code Quality (by) · · google, html, css, quality
- The History of WordPress (via) · · wordpress
- How the Float Label Pattern Started (by) · · forms, design-patterns
- Line Mode Browser 2013 (by+/via) · · websites, user-agents, line-mode
- The Evolution of the BEM Methodology (by/via) · · bem, css, naming
- Why Won’t Helvetica Go Away? (via) · · fonts, typography
- The Future of CSS: Embracing the Machine (by/via) · · css, visions
- The Story of the HTML5 Shiv (by) · · html, polyfills
- A Brief History of Markup (by/via) · · html, xhtml, xml
- Can You Imagine the Web in 20 Years? (via) · · web, visions
- 25 Years in Usability · · usability, retrospectives
- An HTML5 Conformance Checker (by) · · studies, html, conformance, parsing
- Cascading Style Sheets (by) · · studies, css, dsssl
- How Microsoft Lost the API War (by) · · microsoft, apis
- The Making of Python—a Conversation With Guido van Rossum (by+) · · interviews, python, extensibility
- Some Early Ideas for HTML (via) · · html
- The XML Files · · xml, terminology
- The Real History of the GUI (via) · · design
- From Table Hacks to CSS Layout: A Web Designer’s Journey (by/via) · · web-platform, css, anti-patterns, hacks, best-practices
- Web 101 for Dummies · · web, terminology
- The Evolution of Web Documents (by+) · · html, xml
- [Dan’s Web Tips] Introduction · · html, user-agents, accessibility, link-lists
- WWW: Beyond the Basics (via) · · books, web, design, standards, programming, visions
- Internet in Africa · · web
- Some Background on SGML for the World-Wide Web (by/via) · · html, sgml
- Website Archiver (Internet Archive) (via) · tools, exploration
- Website Archiver (archive.today) · tools, exploration
- IP History Checker (via) · tools, analysis, network, ip, protocols