When we first started experiencing the information-relaying power of the internet, there were no trust or centralization issues, simply because the underlying tech tools powering Web 1.0—SMTP and HTTP ...

This picture above shows a simple abstraction of web evolution. The traditional World Wide Web, also known as Web 1.0, is a Read-or-Write Web. In particular, authors of web pages write down what they ...

It's easy to confuse a desire for simplicity with a return to the old days before several important innovations changed our expectations of what the internet could do. The chief culprit here is the ...

Two weeks into his new job, Stamps.com's CFO Ken McBride started slashing the first of 485 workers--87% of the staff. It was October 2000, six months after the initial popping sounds of the dot-com ...

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Is your website optimised for Netscape 2.0? Fifteen years ago that was a critical question in IT, but it's those early days of the internet that some yearn for. Back in the 1990s, chat rooms weren't ...