Cybercultural: Internet History
1999: Blogs Burst Onto the Scene, but RSS Is Slow To Settle
The Emergence of Napster and P2P File Sharing in 1999
Second Life and the Beginnings of the Metaverse in 1999
David Bowie’s 1999 Gaming Adventure and Virtual Album
From BowieWorld to Facebook: How Online Identity Evolved
Google in 1999: Search Engines Escape the Portal Matrix
Seasons: A Fine Way To Structure a Website or Blog in 2025
What the Internet Was Like in 1998
Search Engines in 1998, Before Google Takes the Spotlight
1998: How Amazon Conquered Online CD Retailers Like CDnow
Launch of BowieNet and the First Inklings of Social Networks
Portals in 1998: The Rise and Fall of Excite and Netcenter
What the Internet Was Like in 1997
Best Experienced With: MTV.com and the 90s Browser War
The 3 Gurus of 90s Web Design: Zeldman, Siegel, Nielsen
The Age of Buffering: Video Streaming and Webcasts in 1997
Duran Duran and the Dawn of Digital Music Sales in 1997
What the Internet Was Like in 1996
Telling Lies: Bowie and Online Music Distribution in 1996
State of Online Music in 1996: RealAudio and Rocktroplis
David Bowie’s Early Websites, 1995–1997: Outside to Earthling
What the Internet Was Like in 1995
My Web Values: Why I Quit X and Feed the Fediverse Instead
Cyberculture 1960s-1990s and the Legacy of Alice Mary Hilton
Cyberspace Movies in 1995: Silicon Valley Meets Hollywood
GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet
What the Internet Was Like in 1994
Tumblr in 2012 and How the Gifset Redefined Blogging
Netscape in 1994: The Rise of the Webuloids
Internet Underground Music Archive in 1994
What the Internet Was Like in 2012
How Lana Del Rey Found Internet Fame on YouTube in 2011
CD-ROMS in 1994: Bowie, Prince, Gabriel, and Cybermania '94
Multimedia Gulch in 1994: The Age of Interactive CD-ROMs
What the Internet Was Like in 2011
The End of Web 2.0 — One Bubble Deflates, Another Starts Up
2012: The Transition From ReadWriteWeb to ReadWrite
Bubble Blog Now Available as a Book
The Deal Is Done: ReadWriteWeb Sells to SAY Media
SAY Media Offers To Acquire ReadWriteWeb
The Last Web 2.0 Conference and RWW Acquisition Talks 2.0
Before My Latest Portland Trip, I Decide To Sell ReadWriteWeb
RWW Writer Exodus — the Blog Business Pressures Pile Up
The ReadWriteWeb 2WAY Summit NYC, 2011
The Enshittocene: How the Internet Got Worse in the 2010s
The Great Editorial Pivot of 2011 As RWW Struggles Continue
Team RWW Meetings at SXSW 2011 and a Crisis of Confidence
What the Internet Was Like in 2010
SXSW 2011 and Dealing With RWW Editorial Challenges
Swapping Web 2.0 Summit for PARC; and RWW Planning for 2011
ReadWriteWeb Growing Pains and Managing Bloggers
Serializing a Book Online: Lessons From My Web 2.0 Memoir
Social Media in 2010 and the Rise of Social Referrers
Foo Camp 2010 and Going Exponential at Singularity University
My Trip to Portland, Home to Half of Team ReadWriteWeb
Filter Bubbles and the RWW Real-Time Web Summit, June 2010
Cybercultural Redesign and Adding WDH Content
New York Times HQ Visit and Emergence of Influencer Culture
Burbn to Instagram: The ReadWriteWeb Mobile Summit 2010
ReadWriteWeb Mistaken for Facebook Login — Hilarity Ensues
SXSW Music Blues and RWW Community Manager Departs
Democracy on the Net: Onstage With Ai Weiwei and @Jack
What the Internet Was Like in 2009
SXSW 2010 and RWW Co-Hosts a Party at Austin City Limits
Web 2.0 Summit 2009 and ReadWriteWeb Hires New COO
What the Internet Was Like in 2008
Team RWW in Silicon Valley and a Tense Meeting With My COO
The ReadWrite Real-Time Web Summit, October 2009
What the Internet Was Like in 2007
Planning the First ReadWriteWeb Unconference
Why 2009 Was When Big Tech Began To Control Web 2.0
Meeting My Hero, Tim Berners-Lee, at W3C Headquarters
What the Internet Was Like in 2006
RWW Makes Twitter Suggested User List and Grows Team
My 2009 Googleplex Visit and RWW Launches Channels
Web 2.0 Summit 2008 and Tech Media's Pivot to Business News
Curious About Early Twitter? 5 Key Facts From 2007
Indie Media Business 2.0: RWW Adds Structure and Writers
What the Internet Was Like in 2005
Unacquired: ReadWriteWeb Pulls Out of the ZDE Deal
Alien in New York: ReadWriteWeb & the American Dream
What the Internet Was Like in 2004
I’m Waiting for the EBITDA: Visiting the ZDE Office in NYC
Due Diligence Begins in NYC and RWW Gets NZ Media Award
On Selling Your Website — It's OK to Be a Lifestyle Business
A Deal Is Done and I Attend a Trippy Web 2.0 Party at Temple
Dinner at TWO, But With Which Acquirer? A Zany Night in SF
2008 Web 2.0 Expo; M&A Talks With ZDE and CMP Continue
Acquisition Talks: Two Suitors Emerge for ReadWriteWeb
ReadWriteWeb’s Big Redesign & the Inaugural Crunchies
Stress 2.0: Type 1 Diabetes Plus Web Server Issues
Read/WriteWeb Makes Key Hire and I Meet Hustle Culture
Las Vegas and the Microsoft MIX Conference 2007
Web 2.0 Expo 2007: Web 2.0 Goes Mainstream
Read/WriteWeb Network Launches Amid iPhone Debut
Betting on Web 2.0: High Stakes Blogging
Lou Reed and the 2006 Web 2.0 Summit
The Birth of Cloud Computing and Team Read/WriteWeb
Gnomedex 2006 and My Corporate Blogging Adventure
The Core Values of Blogging: Attending BloggerCon 2006
Digg and the Power Laws of Silicon Valley in 2006
Reluctant Salesman: The Sponsor Ads Era of the Blogosphere
Visiting the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, January 2006
Microsoft Search Champs and the Gift Basket, January 2006
The Web 2.0 Illuminati: Are We in Another Internet Bubble?
Spicy Noodles: Dave Winer and the Web 2.0 Workgroup
Richard Goes to Yahoo! — Talking RSS and Blogging in 2005
The Colors of Web 2.0 Party, October 2005
Day 2 of the 2005 Web 2.0 Conference; Plus Pre-Web Memories
Revving Up at the 2005 Web 2.0 Conference
ReadWriteWeb Growth in 2005, Before First US Trip
Arriving at the TechCrunch Ranch As Web 2.0 Hype Begins
A Call With Tim O’Reilly After the First Web 2.0 Conference
Marc Andreessen in 2004: Adapting to a New Web Era
The First Web 2.0 Conference in 2004: A New Bubble Begins
Blogging in 2003–2004: The Early Years of ReadWriteWeb
Introduction to Bubble Blog, a Memoir of Web 2.0 (2004-2011)
Bubble Blog, My Web 2.0 Book: Table of Contents
Announcing Bubble Blog, My Web 2.0 Memoir
Preserving Media: A Visit to the Physical Internet Archive
ReadWriteWeb on Wayback Machine vs. Old Screenshots
Book Update Plus My Thoughts on ChatGPT and Generative AI
Twitter in 2007: The Open Platform That Wasn't
ReadWriteWeb Turns 20: Writing to the Web Then and Now
The Golden Age of Microblogging, With Soup.io and Tumblr
Check-In Culture: Foursquare Raps by the Go-Bang Mayor
Flickr Before Smartphones and Instagram
BowieNet: The Inside Story of Its Creation
1993: Mosaic Launches and the Web Becomes Open Source
1992: The Web vs Gopher, and the First External Browsers
1991: Tim Berners-Lee Tries to Convert the Hypertext Faithful
1990: Programming the World Wide Web
1999: Netscape’s Fall and the Rise of the Mozilla Browser
1996: Flash and CSS Bring Design to the Web
1995: MySQL Debuts and Web Databases Slowly Emerge
1995: Apache and Microsoft IIS Shake Up Web Server Market
1994: How Perl Became the Foundation of Yahoo
The Time I Met Bill English, Co-Creator of the Mouse
1998: The Open Web With Mozilla, W3C’s DOM, and WaSP
1997: The Year of DHTML
1997: JavaScript Grows Up, Developers Push Boundaries
1995: PHP Launches As Server-Side CGI Scripts Toolset
1993: CGI Scripts and Early Server-Side Web Programming
1997: Netscape Crossware vs. the Windows Web
1996: Microsoft Activates the Internet With ActiveX, JScript
1969: Building the oN-Line System
1996: Netscape Lays the Groundwork for Web Applications
1968: The Mother of All Demos
1996: JavaScript Annoyances and Meeting the DOM
1995: The Birth of JavaScript
Internet Amnesia: Clive James & His Website
The Internet’s Impact on Culture
The Decade in Culture Tech: Streaming, Binging, Opining
Top 5 Culture-Tech Trends of 2019: Rise of Digital Culture
The State of Podcasting: A Golden Age for Online Audio
Audiobooks Deep Dive: Latest Statistics and Trends
Audio vs. Text: The Rise of Podcasts and Audiobooks
Bowie, Houdini & Other Reasons I Love Blogs and Newsletters
How Blogs and Newsletters Can Fight Back at Social Media
How Interactive Media Fits Into the Cultural Landscape
Are We Doing Enough To Archive Digital Culture?
AI in the Cultural Industries: Uses and Limitations
How Photo Sharing Is Impacting the Cultural Industries
The Chernobyl Podcast and the Value of Internet Deep Dives
Audiobook Sales Are Surging, While Print and Ebooks Decline
Music Distribution in the Streaming and Social Media Era
Rise of Podcasting: Spotify and Google Make Moves
Paradise Lost: How Moreover Won & Lost the Real-Time Web
What the Internet Was Like in 1999
The Dot-Com Crash of 2000 and Marc Andreessen’s Act 2