Richard MacManus

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Richard MacManus
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Tech journalist covering the modern Web · Internet historian @ https://cybercultural.com · Founded ReadWriteWeb (2003–2012) · 🥝 in 🇬🇧 Homepage: https://ricmac.org Online Magazine: https://cybercultural.com Alt a/c: https://indieweb.social/@classicweb
Continuing Cybercultural's history of web design, we're still in 1993 but now we come to perhaps the world's first web designer: Jennifer Niederst Robbins. She designed O'Reilly's Global Network Navigator (GNN), which aimed to be an "online magazine". Not easy when you can't even control the colors on a web page!
Cybercultural
1993: Global Network Navigator and the first web designer
It's difficult to apply design to a website in 1993, but that doesn't stop O'Reilly & Associates from launching an 'online magazine' called GNN. Su...
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In 1993, web design didn't really exist — you couldn't even change the background color of your web page from grey. But Mosaic launched the first era of visual web design with the IMG tag, and soon after an MTV VJ (@Adam Curry :pci: :pc2blue:) improbably created one of the first commercial websites.
Cybercultural
1993: Web browsers add multimedia and MTV.com goes online
Mosaic adds an image tag to HTML and becomes the first modern web browser in 1993. Soon after, MTV VJ Adam Curry builds one of the world's first co...
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