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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