Article: Web design's long first decade: a micro--meta--history.

The World Wide Web as a medium and Web design as a creative practice are now both old enough to have histories. The period between 2003 and 2005 saw various public celebrations of the first ten years of this quintessential new medium. But, when my turn to participate arrived at the first international symposium on the history of Web design, I began to think about revisionism at the very moment of historicizing. (1) By all rights, a history of Web design ought to run from the medium's inventor, Tim Berners-Lee, to a hot designer of the moment--Joshua Davis from the United States, Yugo Nakamura from Japan, or a collective like Paris-based LeCielEstBleu--in other words, from ...

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