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Ten years ago today, Egyptians took to the streets to topple a dictator who had clung to power for nearly three decades. January 25th remains one of the most important dates of the Arab Spring, a series of massive, civilian-led protests and uprisings that spread across the Middle East and North...

People thought a magazine about the web would never work. People thought a magazine about the web on the web would never work. They both did.

In the face of a changing climate, we at Etsy are committed to reducing our ecological footprint. To better understand the environmental impact of our computing, we created a set of conversion fact…

The ARPANET made its splashy public debut in 1972. Why exactly was it such a big deal?

Nope, you don't know how to validate an email address. Even if you think you'd get the domain part right, fuggeddabout the local part. Seriously.

L'intersectionnalité est un concept à la mode, on le retrouve un peu partout : dans les dossiers de subsides, au Parlement Européen, dans les mouvements féministes, écologistes, ou antiracistes, à l’Université, etc. Souvent compris comme un synonyme de « diversité », il évoque des images joyeuses et puissantes aux relents de publicité Benetton. Zoom sur un terme mal compris.

April Fool's may be over, but once we set up a system to react every time someone typed Command+C, we realized there was also an opportunity to learn about how people use our site. Here’s what we found.

W3Techs shows statistics and trends in the usage statistics of web technologies

Our industry is remarkable for how many of us do unpaid labor—sometimes for exposure, other times to give back to the profession and help our peers. We’re all grateful for the free software, learni…

Previously in web history... Sir Tim Berners-Lee creates the technologies behind the web — HTML, HTTP, and the URL which blend hypertext with the Internet

American slavery began 400 years ago this month. This is referred to as the country’s original sin, but it is more than that: It is the country’s true origin.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is fascinated with information. It has been his life’s work. For over four decades, he has sought to understand how it is mapped and

Back when a brand-new company called Google was getting its first trickle of angel investment from the likes of Jeff Bezos and others, early netizens could already use a service called G-mail in 1998. Mainly, it was used by fans of a certain obese, lasagna-loving cartoon cat.

Brief videos about web technologies and how to make the most of them. Featuring fun times and goats.

Changing public identity, names and gender, is one of thecomplicated tasks of gender transition. How do companiesand administrations handle this?

The webmaster was once a coveted and important role on the web. One day, it disappeared. This is what happened.

No-code, zero-code, low-code are trendy buzzwords that generally mean any things for which we used to write code and now sort of shouldn't. But then they were wrapped in ideology and everything got bad

How to make meaningful change

How to make meaningful change

There’s a reason every Big Tech CEO has a well-worn copy of “Snow Crash” in their office.

Lee Holloway programmed internet security firm Cloudflare into being. Then he became apathetic, distant, and unpredictable—for a long time, no one could make sense of it.

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On the 11th of January 1982 twenty-two computer scientists met to discuss an issue with ‘computer mail’ (now known as email).

Mobile access becomes 3rd Killer App for the Internet, Web standards rebound, customer service is automated, e-commerce patents are issued, and the Web has its own Y2K problems

Sixteen years ago, the sun set on Web 1.0, and we embarked by the light of our smartphones to 24/7 connectivity, down a road paved with corporate blunders, littered with yesterday’s top 8 friends, scrubbed n00ds, trashed chiptune tracks, bomb threats, and downy unicorn costumes. Comedic treasures were born and abandoned by parent companies; screaming crowds running through billowing tear gas from police vanished behind defunct video players. Devs dreamed of love, artists of postmodern interfaces, and unknowns of entertainment careers. Netizens injured themselves for stunts, by accident, and on purpose. We submitted to our overlord Mark Zuckerberg and the army of influencers. And so many rubber ducks wailed.