rachelandrew / webhistories

Web Histories

The Web Histories Project.

My aim with this project is to document the hidden history of the open web, and to do this in a way that encourages contributions. Here are some ways to help.

Suggestions for people to feature

Perhaps you have a story to tell of your involvement on the web, or you know of someone whose contributions should be included. In the first instance raise an issue. If you want to do the interview and writing, I'll be very happy to act as your editor.

Timeline additions

What am I missing? I'd like the timeline to feature the key events in the development of the web platform. Raise an issue and I can add the data. Or you can submit a Pull Request, timeline events are created by adding a new file under /events inthe following format:

---
title: The W3C is formed
date: '1994-10-01'
image: false
tags: events
---

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) was founded by Tim Berners-Lee at MIT.

Biography data

I am trying to write reasonable biographies for anyone mentioned. These live under /people with the following structure:

---
name: Rachel Andrew
twitter: rachelandrew
web: https://rachelandrew.co.uk
image: false
tags: people
---

Text biog date here

You can create a PR or raise an issue to add data for someone who doesn't have a biography yet, correct or add to existing data.

webhistories's Issues

Liddy Nevile

Liddy Nevile would be a great person to interview about accessible design.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liddy_Nevile

Around 1993 - 1994, Liddy Nevile started looking at the Web as a tool for learning.

From 1996, her lab developed the OZeKIDS CDs to help teachers and kids to learn to build Web sites, even if they didn't have reliable Internet access. I'm willing to bet a big chunk of the teachers in Australia who code code HTML before 2000 learnt it from someone who learnt it from Liddy.

From 1998 she organised the OZeWAI workshops which bought together academics, practitioners, community leaders and policy makers around the idea of accessible Web design. Over the years, international guests included Wendy Chisholm (2001 - W3C), Jutta Treviranus (2004 - ATRC), Madeleine Rothberg (2006 - WGBH NCAM), Brian Kelly (2009 - UKOLN), Eva M. Méndez Rodríguez (2009 - University Carlos III of Madrid). It also provided a space for locals, such as Charles McCathieNevile, Ross Weakly, Jason White, Dey Alexander, Oliver Burmiester, Sofia Celic and a host of others.

She worked on a bunch of related standards: Dublin Core accessibility extension, IMS Access For All, as well as a lot of work for the W3C Web Accessibility Initiative standards.

Interview suggestion

Zoe, https://zomigi.com, the css-discuss days.