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From IE6's 85% dominance to Chrome's victory. A 25-year retrospective from a developer who lived through CSS hacks, PNG transparency hacks, and responsive design.
From FrontPage to WordPress plugins to vibe coding—the point-and-click developer never left. They evolved.
From building sites for Ford and Coca-Cola without a security thought, to FBI calls about election hacks. A web developer's 25-year journey through security.
A black-tie dinner at Tavern on the Green, an industry award, and all we did was put a press release online. A story from the early web.
We wished away the chaos of the patchwork internet. We got an oligopoly instead. A 25-year perspective on how consolidation changed everything.
In 1999, I wore a pager and visited my server in a basement. Today I don't know where my sites live. A personal history of web hosting evolution.
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