A map of St Anthony As a child, shortly after I had lost my golden mantle of 'the-youngest', my father would take my two brothers and I to St Anthony. My Dad had made several 'shrimping nets' which we would push around knee deep in the cold numbing, esturine water. We would catch tiny shrimps amongst the muddy...

Paul Ford describes his climate mid-life crisis: I began to feel a strong sense of déjà vu. I couldn't place it until, one night, in the glow of the e-reader, I realized: It's Web 1.0 all over again. We are in the Pets.com-puppet-mascot era of climate. The comedy of the technology industry is playing again as a kind...

After the birth of web apps in 1993 with CGI scripts, followed by startups like Yahoo using Perl code to create dynamic websites in 1994, and then client-side interactivity arriving in 1995 with Netscape’s JavaScript, the web was evolving fast into a full-stack programming platform. During the same time period,...