The only time someone remembered September 11, 2001 to me in the last year was when a stranger mentioned it as part of the reason he was trying to assault me...

There are kids now who are old enough to go fight in wars that were justified back when they still had their umbilical cords attached. For them, the attacks ar...

Playdate, the upcoming indie handheld gaming console from venerable software publisher Panic, is really important. But if you don't know the history of where t...

Jay Smooth, “ Please stop calling everyone and their mother ‘The First Rapper’ “: U-Roy may be one of rap’s predecessors, and among the influences that lai...

Accidental Blogger captures Discover magazine’s list of The 7 Most Wondrous Moments in Science . The entire post is worth a read, but the featured list is:...

Before it was called Firefox, or Firebird, Mozilla’s lightweight browser was known as Phoenix. An appropriate name, given than it rose from the ashes of Netsca...

Yeah, I love blogs and all that stuff. But the real reason I love working at Six Apart is that sometimes we get to do stuff that’s actually funny. If Bl...

Lots of times I say it doesn’t matter if you get credit if your idea succeeds, because if you believe in it, you probably care more about the idea than your ow...

Pegged to the release of Depeche Mode’s remix set, the Guardian offers a history of the remix that, predictably, skews white and British but is still pretty...

Andre kindly pointed out this weblog of Quake news from Blue’s News circa July 1996. I’ve always wondered why Stephen Heaslip deliberately gets written out...

The History of Eating Utensils . Dig in....

Wow, I’ve been working on an essay about Vannevar Bush’s "As We May Think" for a while, but a lot of the points have already been covered by an artic...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a timeline of art history that is quite educational to illiterates like me....

Untold History: Untold Stories of Software Innovation, starting with the story of Flash....

Jason emailed me about a bunch of Yahoo history links that he just added, and some of these are really great. I guess I am as guilty of the tendency for inst...

And for more Yahoo history, some screen shots of old browsers visiting the site ....

Did a bad graphic design change history ?...

Why was the Internet invented ? So that we could have Fabrice Morvan’s homepage . Fab, of course is the more talented (and still living) half of Rob & Fa...