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Entry (Sources) and Additional TopicsDate#
The Java Story—the Official Documentary343
videos, java
What Happened to the Frontend (dav)342
jquery, frameworks, building, tooling, servers, libraries, typescript, deploying, ai
5 Questions for Laura Carlson (lau+/fro)341
interviews, accessibility, web
The Untold Story About W Social: Unconventional Beginnings, Strategic Pitches and Conflicting Signals (el)340
social-media
The Evolution of the “Buy” Button: 1995–2026 (web)339
design, ecommerce, buttons
The Sites We Lost (aus)338
web
“Our Product Is Used, on [Occasion], to Kill People”: Inside Palantir, the World’s Scariest AI Company337
ai, palantir
1995: From Batman Forever’s Cinematic Design to HTML Tables (ric)336
web, design, netscape, mosaic, browsers, tables, layout, html, wysiwyg, code-editors
Web Rewind335
websites, web
How to Shoot a Screen Using a Board of Keys (mwi)334
screenshots, keyboard-shortcuts, apple
A Brief History of Programming… (fir)333
videos, programming
Ruby Turns 30: A Celebration of Code, Community, and Creativity (jet)332
ruby, ruby-on-rails, anniversaries
The HTML Elements Time Forgot (val/mat)331
html
A Short History of Performance Engineering (per)330
performance
The JavaScript Bundler Grand Prix (kat/red)329
javascript, bundling, tooling, vite, rspack, turbopack, bun, rolldown, browserify, webpack, rollup, parcel, esbuild
In 1995, a Netscape Employee Wrote a Hack in 10 Days That Now Runs the Internet (ben/ars)328
netscape, javascript
Web Backstories: Shadow DOM (ada+/iga)327
podcasts, interviews, shadow-dom, web-components, standards
The Evolution of Web Development: From Static Pages to AI-Driven Experiences (web)326
web, web-2.0, web-apps, ai
Blogging Gets Serious in 2001 With Warblogs and Movable Type (ric)325
web, blogging, examples, movable-type
The Sky Is Falling, the Web Is Dead (ern/ted)324
web
The Origin Story of JavaScript (ann/cas)323
videos, web, javascript, ecmascript, browsers, browser-wars, browser-engines, standards
A Brief History of Domains (pet)322
web, domains, dns
Why “NaN !== NaN” in JavaScript (and the IEEE 754 Story Behind It)321
javascript, standards
Vite: The Documentary (cul)320
videos, vite
Birth of Prettier (vje)319
prettier
The History of Core Web Vitals (add)318
web-vitals, performance, user-experience, metrics, google
Why I Gave the World Wide Web Away for Free (tim/the)317
web, licensing
State of QUIC in Node.js (pav)316
nodejs, quic, protocols
What the Internet Was Like in 1999 (ric)315
web, microsoft, netscape, google, blogging, syndication
Google Chrome at 17—a History of Our Browser (add)314
chrome, google, browsers, anniversaries
How Designing for Disability Benefits Everyone313
accessibility, economics
Python: The Documentary (cul)312
videos, python
The History of Themeable User Interfaces (bra)311
design, theming
Hack to the Future—Frontend (the)310
html, css, javascript, design, layout, flash, image-replacement, libraries, frameworks, hacks, xhtml, tooling, testing, outlooks
Design Hacks From the Pre-CSS Era (den/hac)309
html, tables, layout, hacks
You’re Loading Fonts Wrong (and It’s Crippling Your Performance) (jon)308
fonts, performance, css, image-replacement, flash-of-x
Michelle Frechette and Jonathan Desrosiers on the Story of .com and .org (mic+)307
podcasts, interviews, wordpress, domains
Has Efficiency Killed Beauty? A Designer’s Search for Meaning306
design, efficiency, aesthetics, user-experience
What We Learned From Creating PostCSS (sit+/evi)305
postcss, lessons, tips-and-tricks
Neo-Brutalism: Breaking Rules, Loudly304
design, brutalism, trends
The Many, Many, Many JavaScript Runtimes of the Last Decade (shi)303
javascript, runtimes
Node.js Is Growing Up: 3 Major Releases That Changed the Game (hac)302
nodejs
The Untold Story of JavaScript301
videos, javascript
The Untold Story of JavaScript (den)300
videos, javascript
Is It Still Worth Using jQuery in 2025?299
jquery
The History of React Through Code (cru/pla)298
react, examples
30 Years of JavaScript: 10 Milestones That Changed the Web297
javascript, anniversaries, ecmascript, ajax, jquery, web-2.0, nodejs, npm, react, typescript, webassembly
CSS Intelligence: Speculating on the Future of a Smarter Language (sma)296
css, outlooks
What Every React Developer Should Know About Signals (rya)295
videos, react, signals
A Simple Website294
websites, layout, animations, images, tables, javascript, ajax, flash, deploying, simplicity
A Short History of Web Bots and Bot Detection Techniques (ole)293
bots, bot-detection, techniques, fingerprinting, traffic
JavaScript Broke the Web (and Called It Progress) (jon)292
javascript, performance, user-experience, tooling, tech-stacks
Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web (ern/iee)291
jpeg, images
How JavaScript Was Written Back in the Day (tre)290
javascript, jquery, comparisons
Why Visual Website Builders Didn’t Take Off (whi)289
videos, code-editors, wysiwyg, html
What the Internet Was Like in 1997 (ric)288
web, web-platform, browsers, browser-wars, netscape, internet-explorer, microsoft, dhtml
The Evolving Art and Science of Prompt Engineering: A Chronological Journey287
ai, prompting
My Request to Google on Accessibility (aar)286
accessibility, google
A Brief History of JavaScript (den)285
javascript, ecmascript, typescript, json, javascript-engines, runtimes, browsers
Understanding Java’s Asynchronous Journey284
java, asynchronicity
Web Typography: A Refresher and History (zel)283
typography, link-lists
History of the Web: Chris Lilley (svg+/iga)282
videos, interviews, web-platform
The Untold Story of Git281
videos, git, svn, cvs, version-control
Two Decades of Git: A Conversation With Creator Linus Torvalds (tor)280
videos, interviews, git
Cover Flow With Modern CSS: Scroll-Driven Animations in Action (add)279
css, animations, transforms, scrolling, effects
A Decade of Impact: How Our npm Packages Hit 1 Billion Downloads and Shaped JavaScript278
npm, dependencies, javascript
Deno vs. Oracle Update 3: Fighting the JavaScript Trademark (tin/den)277
deno, oracle, javascript, legal
JavaScript’s Missing Link: Wasp Offers Full Stack Solution276
wasp, javascript, frameworks
Cursor, “Vibe Coding,” and Manus: The UX Revolution That AI Needs275
ai, chatgpt, cursor, vibe-coding, user-experience
Web Accessibility Requirements in the EU (mar)274
accessibility, eaa, legal, compliance, metrics
Past and Present Futures of User Interface Design273
design, desktop, outlooks
A Perplexing JavaScript Parsing Puzzle (hil)272
javascript, parsing
Here’s How Chrome Could Lose the Browser War271
chrome, google, browsers, browser-wars
From “You Will Fail” to 15,000 GitHub Stars: The Story of Wasp, a “Laravel for JS” Full-Stack Framework270
wasp
One Kilobyte to Copilot: My Journey Through Programming History269
programming, ai
Overlay Timeline (ove)268
websites, overlays, accessibility, link-lists
The Effort Paradox in AI Design267
design, product-management
20 Years of AJAX: The Technology That Revolutionized Web Development266
ajax, javascript, data-fetching
A Really (Really) Long but Authentic History of Design Evolution in India265
design, culture
The Hardest Working Font in Manhattan (mwi)264
fonts, typography
How I Created a Popular WordPress Theme and Coined the Term “Hero Section” (Without Realizing It) (sma)263
wordpress, themes, terminology
The End of Programming as We Know It (tim/ore)262
programming, processes, ai, career, outlooks
Angular: The Documentary261
videos, angularjs, angular
The Systemic Failure of Implementing CSS Principles260
css, principles, maintainability, consistency, modules, craft
The Politics of Accessibility259
accessibility, advocacy, politics
To Get to the Internet, You Need a Steam Shovel (res)258
web
Progressive Enhancement Brings Everyone In (jay)257
progressive-enhancement, javascript, advocacy, link-lists
The Curious (Performance) Case of CSS “@import” (erw/per)256
performance, css
Node.js: A Brief History of CJS, Bundlers, and ESM255
nodejs, commonjs, esm, bundling
The Heartfelt Story Behind CSS’s New Logo (web)254
css
Hints and Suggestions: The Design of Web Design (mia/btc)253
videos, design, css, cascade
WPT: An Overview and History (boa/boc)252
overviews, web-platform, testing
Blast From the Past: 2advanced.com (web)251
design, flash, case-studies
20 Years of Firefox: How a Community Project Changed the Web (moz)250
firefox, mozilla, browsers, anniversaries
AWS Lambda Turns Ten—Looking Back and Looking Ahead (jef)249
anniversaries, aws, serverless, lambda, outlooks
25 Crazy Software Bugs Explained (fir)248
videos, programming, bugs, quality
The Evolution of Google Web Vitals: What to Expect Beyond Core Web Vitals247
performance, web-vitals, google, outlooks
“We Were Wrong”: An Oral History of WIRED’s Original Website (vir/wir)246
podcasts, case-studies
Lessons From Building Netlify (bii/thi)245
lessons, videos, netlify, leadership
The Story of Web Framework Hono, From the Creator of Hono244
frameworks, hono
Bundling Past, Present, and Future (dev)243
videos, bundling, tooling, outlooks
5 Questions for Craig Buckler (cra+/fro)242
interviews, web-platform
The Evolution of CSS: From Early Days to Flexbox and Grid (kev/thi)241
videos, css, concepts, principles
2000s + 2010s = 10,000 (fro)240
frontend-dogma
The Problem of the Em Square239
design, typography
An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers (rga)238
safari, apple, browsers
From Node.js to Deno: How It All Began (tin)237
videos, nodejs, deno, javascript, runtimes
The HTML History and Optimization Cheat Sheet (j9t)236
html, optimization, cheat-sheets
HTTP 1 vs. HTTP 2 vs. HTTP 3235
videos, protocols, http, comparisons
Behind the Scenes: The Making of VS Code (bur+/vsc)234
videos, code-editors, microsoft, vs-code
The Only Widely Recognized JavaScript Feature Ever Deprecated (tre)233
javascript, deprecation
Regexes Got Good: The History and Future of Regular Expressions in JavaScript (sma)232
regex, javascript
UX Is Dead. Long Live UX.231
user-experience, economics
Browsers, Cookies, and Surfing the Web: The Quirky History of Internet Lingo (moz)230
web, terminology
How Google Handles JavaScript Throughout the Indexing Process229
google, seo, web-apps, javascript, rendering
A Plea for the Lost Practice of Information Architecture228
information-architecture, link-lists
Ten Years of Vue (With Evan You) (eva+)227
podcasts, vuejs, apis
Mythbusting DOM: Was DOM Invented Alongside HTML?226
myths, dom, html
The True Story—as Best I Can Remember—of the Origin of Mosaic and Netscape225
videos, browsers, mosaic, netscape
10 Years of Vue: The Past and the Future (eva)224
videos, vuejs, outlooks
Witnessing the Death of the Web as a News Medium (cod)223
web, content, seo, sem
The Long Path of JavaScript—from ES6 Until Today222
javascript, ecmascript
Predictors of Postsecondary Web Accessibility, 2012 to 2022221
studies, research, accessibility
Did We Fail to Develop the Next Generation of Designers?220
design, career, leadership
The Carcinization of Web Frameworks219
frameworks, signals, server-side-rendering, outlooks, web-components
At Some Point, JavaScript Got Good218
javascript
Design Déjà Vu (mal)217
design, html, css, comparisons
The Slow Death of CSS Vendor Prefixes (oll)216
css, vendor-extensions
Why We Are Still Using 88×31 Buttons215
images, design
A Love Letter to Gen Z From Gen Y: Understanding React’s Evolution214
react
History of JS Interop in Dart213
javascript, dart, interoperability
History of Web Accessibility212
videos, accessibility
Relicensing and Rug Pulls211
foss, licensing
Node.js: The Documentary (isa+)210
videos, nodejs
I’m So Old: Web Edition (dav)209
web
The “10× Engineer”: 50 Years Ago and Now (ger)208
productivity, processes, career
Marking the Web’s 35th Birthday: An Open Letter (tim)207
open-letters, web, anniversaries
The 88×31 Archive206
web, images
The Wax and the Wane of the Web (ste/ali)205
web-platform
Filling Gaps With a Polyfill (jay)204
polyfills, html, css, javascript
How I Developed the 10 Usability Heuristics203
usability, heuristics
Web Standards: The Guidelines That Every Developer Should Know202
standards, w3c, html, css, xml, wcag
The Evolution of Page Speed (mat/deb)201
videos, performance, metrics, optimization
If It’s Not Usable, It’s Not Accessible (tpg)200
interviews, accessibility, usability
Oh Shit Banners (eri)199
design
The Ghosts of Markup Past (tho/mat)198
html, web
Using Date-Based CSS to Make Old Web Pages Look Old (ede)197
css
Everything Is Chrome (val)196
browsers, browser-wars, chrome, google, browser-extensions, amp, link-lists
The Last 5 Years of V8’s Garbage Collector (win)195
javascript, javascript-engines, v8, garbage-collection, concurrency
The Hellish History of HTML: An Incomplete and Personal Account (cra/mat)194
html
Of Time and the Web (ada/btc)193
videos, web, processes
Weird HTML Hacks (ern)192
html, css, hacks, techniques
How Independent Publishing Has Changed From the 1990s Until Today191
writing, web
NCSA Mosaic: How the First Mainstream Web Browser Changed the World Forever190
browsers, mosaic
Igalia Chats: Web History Part VI (stu+/iga)189
podcasts, web
What Happened to Separation of Concerns in Frontend Development (j9t)188
maintainability, principles, css, frameworks
Whatever Happened to the Zend Framework (ami)187
frameworks, php, zend
The Saga of the Closure Compiler, and Why TypeScript Won186
javascript, google, compiling, typescript
TypeScript Origins: The Documentary185
videos, typescript
The Psychology of Web Performance (tam/btc)184
videos, performance, user-experience
We are Chrome for Developers183
browsers, google, chrome, chromium, community, foss
Bun Hype: How We Learned Nothing From Yarn182
bun, yarn, dependencies
Securing Your Node.js Apps by Analyzing Real-World Command Injection Examples181
nodejs, security, examples
The Pros and Cons of Different Test Tools—Jest180
testing, jest
CSS Lobotomized Owl Selector: A Modern Guide (log)179
css, selectors, guides
Hover Triangles (may)178
navigation, hover
Changes Over the Last 25 Years of UX Research (uxm)177
user-experience, research
Nostalgia in UX Design176
user-experience, design
Encoding: A Brief History and Its Role in Cybersecurity175
encoding, unicode, security
Getting Started—Understanding the History of Web Accessibility174
videos, introductions, accessibility
Are We There Yet? (svg)173
css, colors
90s Websites—Key Characteristics and Examples172
design, trends, navigation, colors, typography
The Unlikely Story of UTF-8: The Text Encoding of the Web171
unicode
Internet Explorer: The 1st Browser to Support CSS (cdu+/hen)170
videos, css, browsers, microsoft, internet-explorer, support
A History of Metaphors for the Internet (ver)169
web, terminology
How Far Back in Time Can I Take My Website’s Design168
web, design, html, css
30th Anniversary of Licensing the Web for General Use and at No Cost (koa/w3c)167
web, web-platform, standards, foss, anniversaries
A History of the World Wide Web From 1989 to the Present Day166
web
JSON vs. XML With Douglas Crockford (dou)165
podcasts, interviews, json, xml, comparisons
XUL Layout Is Gone164
xul, browsers, mozilla, firefox
That Time When SVG Almost Got Network Support for Raw Sockets163
svg, network
All JavaScript and TypeScript Features From the Last 3 Years162
javascript, typescript
CSS Through the Ages161
css
React.js: The Documentary160
videos, react
The Story of the World Wide Web (jay)159
books, web, browsers, standards, css, community, browser-wars
A Historical Reference of React Criticism (zac)158
react
The Future (and the Past) of the Web Is Server Side Rendering (den)157
server-side-rendering, client-side-rendering, deno, migrating
The History of Internet Explorer and Web Standards (jay/hac)156
internet-explorer, microsoft, browsers, standards, web-standards-project, link-lists
ICANN and the 7 Keys to the Internet155
videos, podcasts, web, domains
A Brief History of Web Apps—Why Qwik Is Innovative154
web-apps, qwik
The BBC’s 15 Web Principles—15 Years Later (ede)153
web, principles
The Evolution of Scalable CSS152
css, maintainability, scalability, naming, oocss, smacss, bem, css-in-js, modules, atomic-css, tailwind
A Brief and Probably Only Partially Correct History of CSS Nesting (chr)151
css, nesting
CSS Timeline150
css
Evolution of Manuals: UX Inspiration From History149
user-experience, documentation
A Short Story of the Google Error Page (j9t)148
google, error-pages
“Accessibility at the Edge” W3C CG Is an Overlay Smoke Screen (aar)147
accessibility, overlays, w3c
Websites: Past and Present146
web, design
IE: RIP or BRB? (bru)145
videos, browsers, microsoft, internet-explorer
Ancient Web Browsers144
websites, browsers
The History of JavaScript143
javascript
Konqueror: The Forgotten Browser That Conquered the Market (dis)142
videos, konqueror, browsers
The Hidden History of Screen Readers (ver)141
accessibility, screen-readers, assistive-tech
Body Margin 8px (mia)140
css, margins
Farewell to HTML5Rocks139
community, html
Why Do We Call It “Breadcrumbs”? Diving Into the History of UI Components (uxm)138
design, naming, navigation, breadcrumbs
A Brief History of Responsive Web Design (web)137
responsive-design
The “Form” Element Created the Modern Web—Was It a Big Mistake? (wir)136
html, forms, mistakes
The Evolution of WCAG: A Postcard From the Front Lines135
accessibility, wcag, standards
Four Eras of JavaScript Frameworks134
javascript, frameworks
Fonts for the Web: Rationale, 1996 (svg/w3c)133
fonts
Giving Web Standards a Seat at the Table (jay)132
standards
1993: Mosaic Launches and the Web Is Set Free (ric)131
browsers, mosaic
20 Years of bram.us (bra)130
1992: The Web vs. Gopher, and the First External Browsers (ric)129
web
Browser Wars (jay/css)128
browsers, browser-wars
1999: The Fall of Netscape and the Rise of Mozilla (ric)127
browsers, netscape, mozilla
1995: MySQL Arrives, Completing the LAMP Stack (ric)126
databases, mysql, tech-stacks
An Early History of the Lynx Web Browser (ada)125
browsers, lynx
timefind124
packages, npm
1995: Apache and Microsoft IIS Shake Up the Web Server Market (ric)123
servers, apache, microsoft, iis
30 Years on From Introducing the Web to the World (amy/w3c)122
web, anniversaries
A Look Back at the Very First Website Ever Launched, 30 Years Later (jos/npr)121
Where Did This Interaction Come From?—A Brief History of Interaction Design120
interaction-design
RenderingNG (chr)119
browsers, browser-engines, chromium, google, rendering
Blogged Answers: The Evolution of Redux Testing Approaches118
redux, state-management, testing
History of Web Browser Engines From 1990 Until Today117
browser-engines, browsers, presto, gecko, trident, edgehtml, khtml, webkit, blink, servo
25 Years of CSS (mey)116
css
FTP: Fifty Years and Millions of FTP Servers Worldwide115
ftp, standards, servers, tooling
Checking “Under the Hood” of Code (jay)114
dev-tools, browsers, debugging, console, javascript, html, css
A Short History of SvelteKit113
sveltekit, svelte, link-lists
A General Introduction to Cloud Computing (dig)112
introductions, cloud-computing, concepts
What Apple, Google, and Amazon’s Websites Looked Like in 1999 (mas)111
design
The Browser Engine That Could (jay)110
browsers, browser-engines, trident, gecko, presto, khtml, javascriptcore, webkit, v8, blink, safari, apple, konqueror, chrome, google, link-lists
Let’s Not Be Pedantic About “Open Source” (arp)109
foss
Remembrance of Tags Past (mey)108
web-platform, html, xhtml, css, hacks, doctypes
The Need for Speed, 23 Years Later (nng)107
performance, user-experience
Vue.js: The Documentary106
videos, vuejs
Old CSS, New CSS (eev)105
css, html, examples, browser-wars, doctypes, dhtml, web-2.0, hacks, vendor-extensions, flexbox, layout
The History of JavaScript: A Journey From Netscape to Frameworks and Libraries104
javascript, frameworks, libraries, netscape
Today, the Trident Era Ends (sch)103
trident, browser-engines, browsers, edge, edgehtml, internet-explorer, microsoft
A History of CSS Through Fifteen Years of 24 Ways (rac/24w)102
css
The Origin Story of Container Queries (zac)101
css, container-queries
The Layers of the Web (ada/btc)100
videos, web
A Brief History of the Original Browsers and the First Browser War99
browsers, browser-wars
The History of Browser Wars98
browser-wars, browsers
evolt.org Browser Archive 20 Years Old (aar)97
anniversaries, browsers
Yet Another JavaScript Framework (jay/css)96
javascript, frameworks, mootools
Web Standards: The What, the Why, and the How (sma)95
standards, processes, web-platform
Everything You Know About Web Design Just Changed (jen)94
slides, layout, html, css, tables, flash, responsive-design, intrinsic-design
Why Isn’t It “<style src="">”? (chr/css)93
html, standards
The Internet Can’t Handle Functioning Like a Democracy92
web, community
The History of CSS Resets91
css, resets
The World Wide Success That Is XML (bar/w3c)90
xml, xsl, xquery
Clearfix: A Lesson in Web Development Evolution (jay/css)89
css, floats
The History of WordPress88
wordpress
Whatever Happened to the Semantic Web?87
semantic-web, xml, rdf, metadata
MongoDB Evolved86
mongodb, release-notes
The Inception of ESLint (nza)85
eslint
A Short History of WaSP and Why Web Standards Matter (jay/css)84
wasp, community, standards, web-platform
How Declaration Repetition Developed Over Time, a Statistically Insignificant Sample (j9t)83
css, maintainability, metrics
Reboot, Resets, and Reasoning (chr/css)82
css, resets, normalize-css, comparisons, terminology
A Look Back at the History of CSS (jay/css)81
css, browsers, doctypes, box-model, hacks, standards, css-zen-garden, semantics
The Web’s First (and Second) Browser (jay)80
browsers, line-mode, web
The Rise and Fall of Ext JS (hac)79
extjs
Web Design Museum78
websites, web
The JavaScript Standard77
javascript, ecmascript, standards
What the Internet Looked Like in 1973: Tiny Map Shows the Entire Network Was Made Up of Just 42 Computers (sta/dai)76
web, network
How the 404 Error Created the World Wide Web75
web, links, http
An Interview With Miriam Suzanne (mia+/css)74
interviews, css
The Glory Days of the Web (bka)73
web-platform, html, css, javascript, frameworks, libraries
Five Myths About the Web (was)72
web, myths
25 Years Ago the World Changed Forever (amy/w3c)71
web, anniversaries, w3c
A History of CSS Image Replacement70
css, image-replacement, techniques, examples
A Wordy History of Default Browser Styles and CSS Resets69
css, resets
Brief History of JavaScript Modules68
javascript, modules, commonjs, browserify, esm, webpack, rollup, tooling
A Brief(ish) History of the Web Universe: New Hope(s) (bka)67
web, browsers, mosaic, netscape
A Brief(ish) History of the Web Universe: The Early Web (bka)66
web, browsers, mosaic
A Brief(ish) History of the Web Universe: Time (bka)65
web, html
A Brief(ish) History of the Web Universe: The Pre-Web (bka)64
web, sgml
A Brief History of Web Design (dav/btc)63
videos, design
CSS Vendor Prefixes (gla)62
css, vendor-extensions
A Brief History of HTML (rpo)61
html, wml, hdml, chtml, wap
The Roots of Minimalism in Web Design (nng)60
design, minimalism, tips-and-tricks
What Are Web Standards59
standards, html, xml, xhtml, css, wcag, w3c
Refresh HTTP Header (kar)58
redirecting, http-headers, http, html, metadata
Google and HTML/CSS Code Quality (j9t)57
google, html, css, quality
The History of WordPress56
wordpress
Story of the Web55
websites, web
The First Ever Banner Ad: Why Did It Work So Well? (the)54
monetization
How the Float Label Pattern Started53
forms, labels, design-patterns
Line Mode Browser 2013 (lea+)52
websites, browsers, line-mode
The Web Wars51
libraries, frameworks, tooling, comparisons
The Evolution of the BEM Methodology (sma)50
bem, css, naming
Why Won’t Helvetica Go Away? (sma)49
fonts, typography
Homepage Design Changes (nng)48
homepages, design
The History of the Internet—Infographic47
web
The Future of CSS: Embracing the Machine (sma)46
css, outlooks, cssdoc
Infographic: History of Web Standards (jzb)45
standards
Where Form Met Function (ale)44
w3c, apple
Why the Web Needs HTML543
html, web-platform
The Story of the HTML5 Shiv (pau)42
html, polyfills
Web (bgz)41
web, terminology
What Is the History of the Django Web Framework? Why Has It Been Described as “Developed in a Newsroom”? (sim)40
django
A Brief History of Markup (ada/ali)39
html, xhtml, xml
History of the User-Agent String (nza)38
browsers, mosaic, netscape, internet-explorer, gecko, webkit, konqueror, chrome, opera
The Evolution of Web Design37
design, tables, flash, dhtml, css
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages36
programming
Can You Imagine the Web in 20 Years?35
web, outlooks
The Next Web of Open, Linked Data (tim/ted)34
videos, web, structured-data, outlooks
The Road to HTML 5—The “section” Element (div)33
html, semantics
Blast From the Web Past: DirectAnimation, Microsoft Chrome, and Cartoon Chat (bra/aja)32
internet-explorer, microsoft, browsers
25 Years in Usability (nng)31
usability, retrospectives
The World’s Most Popular Programming Language Has Fashion and Luck to Thank (dou/ore)30
programming, javascript, ajax
Making Open Standards as Open as Possible—Required Public Domain Licensing of All Microformats Wiki Contributions (tan/mic)29
microformats, licensing, community
Change vs. Stability in Web Usability Guidelines (nng)28
usability, best-practices
An HTML5 Conformance Checker (hsi)27
studies, html, conformance, parsing
Rich Internet Applications and Greek Mythology (jec)26
naming, adobe, microsoft, rich-internet-apps
10 Years of CSS (ber/w3c)25
css, anniversaries, w3c, link-lists
Cascading Style Sheets24
studies, css, dsssl
35 Years of the Internet23
web, anniversaries
How Microsoft Lost the API War (spo)22
microsoft, apis
RSS’ Troubled Past, Present and Future21
rss, syndication, outlooks
Inclusive Web Design for the Future (sch)20
slides, browsers, graceful-degradation, standards, design, strategies, comparisons
The Making of Python—a Conversation With Guido van Rossum19
interviews, python, extensibility
The Problem With JavaScript (jzb)18
javascript, ecmascript
Steal Your Interface: A History (lka/wir)17
design, apple
Some Early Ideas for HTML (w3c)16
html
The XML Files15
xml, terminology
The Real History of the GUI14
design
From Table Hacks to CSS Layout: A Web Designer’s Journey (zel/ali)13
web-platform, css, anti-patterns, hacks, best-practices
Web 101 for Dummies12
web, terminology
Weaving the Web (tim/w3c)11
books, web
The Evolution of Web Documents (dck+)10
html, xml
[Dan’s Web Tips] Introduction9
html, browsers, accessibility, link-lists
The History of HTML (jef)8
html
WWW: Beyond the Basics7
books, web, design, standards, programming, outlooks
Internet in Africa6
web
A Little History of the World Wide Web (w3c)5
web
Some Background on SGML for the World-Wide Web (dck/w3c)4
html, sgml
IP History Checker3
tools, analysis, network, ip, protocols
Website Archiver (archive.today)2
tools, exploration
Website Archiver (Internet Archive) (int)1
tools, exploration