The internet is full of the ghosts of old services that, while once triumphant beacons of the world wide web, have fallen into mere shells of their former selves or have simply died entirely. The ...

Technology we take for granted today was new not so long ago, and somebody had to name it. Though sometimes it’s hard to pin down exactly who deserves the credit — or blame — here’s a shot a some of ...

On April 30, 1993, the European research organization known as CERN released Tim Berners-Lee’s code for the World Wide Web into the public domain. The internet has many components but this innovation ...

When Yahoo! switched off the servers for GeoCities, the Web posting service, on Oct. 27, some 7 million of the Internet’s first websites went dark forever. The bulk of these were people’s personal ...

Creating an impactful design can be subjective. Personal preference may lead one person to favor a particular design technique, while another person may prefer a completely different approach. And ...

We could say that web design has come a long way in the past 22 years, but a wave of nostalgia suggests people miss the character of the sites from the early days of the century. The Nintendo website ...

When we unpack its current meaning, we may find that we want—and need—to retool the word yet again. It was drawing, or disegno, as deployed in the making of Italian buildings during the Renaissance, ...