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Web Development History

My latest project: Web Development History

February 19, 2026January 9, 2021 by Richard MacManus

This week I launched a new website: Web Development History. As the name suggests, it’ll be an ongoing chronicle of internet history — but from a development perspective. Simply put, I want to describe how the web actually works and how that has evolved over the past 30 years.

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