An interactive history of the technologies that built the web.https://techtree.dylandang.dev/en-ushttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-5-graphql/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-5-graphql/Facebook's query language for APIs solved the over-fetching problem and gave clients control over the shape of their data.Wed, 22 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-5-docker/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-5-docker/How containerization solved 'works on my machine' and transformed software delivery forever.Tue, 21 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-5-typescript/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-5-typescript/Microsoft's typed superset of JavaScript brought static analysis to the most dynamic language on earth.Mon, 20 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-5-kubernetes/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-5-kubernetes/Google's container orchestration system brought Borg's ideas to the open-source world and redefined how we deploy software.Sun, 19 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-5-blockchain/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-5-blockchain/Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin whitepaper introduced a mechanism for consensus without central authority — and sparked a revolution in decentralized systems.Sat, 18 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-4-mapreduce/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-4-mapreduce/Google's programming model for processing massive datasets across thousands of machines changed how we think about distributed computation.Fri, 17 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-4-nosql/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-4-nosql/How the scale demands of Web 2.0 drove a new generation of databases that traded SQL guarantees for horizontal scalability.Thu, 16 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-4-git/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-4-git/Linus Torvalds built Git in two weeks out of frustration, and accidentally created the tool that powers all modern software development.Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-4-react/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-4-react/Facebook's UI library introduced the virtual DOM and component model that reshaped how we think about building interfaces.Tue, 14 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-4-rest/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-4-rest/Roy Fielding's dissertation formalized the architectural style that would become the standard for web APIs.Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-3-apache/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-3-apache/How an open-source web server built from patches dominated the early web and proved the viability of collaborative development.Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-1-bourne-shell/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-1-bourne-shell/Stephen Bourne's shell gave Unix a programmable command language — the ancestor of every deploy script and cron job.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-3-mysql/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-3-mysql/How an open-source relational database became the 'M' in LAMP and powered the first wave of web applications.Sat, 11 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-1-make/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-1-make/Stuart Feldman wrote Make in a weekend at Bell Labs, introducing dependency graphs to the art of building software.Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-3-javascript/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-3-javascript/Brendan Eich's rush job became the world's most ubiquitous programming language. Here's how.Fri, 10 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-1-bsd-sockets/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-1-bsd-sockets/Berkeley's socket interface turned TCP/IP from a protocol spec into something programmers could actually use.Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-3-php/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-3-php/Rasmus Lerdorf's 'Personal Home Page' tools became the server-side language that powered early web applications.Thu, 09 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-1-rsa/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-1-rsa/Rivest, Shamir, and Adleman solved a problem that seemed impossible — letting strangers communicate securely without sharing a secret first.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-3-css/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-3-css/Cascading Style Sheets ended the era of font tags and gave designers a real language for visual presentation.Wed, 08 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-1-relational-model/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-1-relational-model/Edgar Codd's 1970 paper gave us a mathematical foundation for databases, and SQL gave us a language to query them.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-2-dns/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-2-dns/How a distributed naming system made IP addresses human-friendly and the web navigable.Tue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-1-email/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-1-email/Ray Tomlinson picked the @ sign, and suddenly networks were for people — not just machines.Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-2-html/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-2-html/How a simple markup language made document publishing accessible to anyone with a text editor.Mon, 06 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-1-arpanet/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-1-arpanet/A crashed login, a nervous grad student, and an unauthorized email — how a Cold War research project accidentally laid the foundation for the internet.Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-2-http/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-2-http/Tim Berners-Lee's simple request-response protocol turned the internet into a global hypertext system.Sun, 05 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-1-c-language/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-1-c-language/Dennis Ritchie created C to rewrite Unix, and accidentally gave the world its most enduring systems language.Sat, 04 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-1-unix/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-1-unix/Thompson and Ritchie's elegant OS introduced pipes, files-as-everything, and a philosophy that still drives modern development.Fri, 03 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-1-tcp-ip/https://techtree.dylandang.dev/posts/era-1-tcp-ip/How Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn designed the protocol suite that became the backbone of the internet.Wed, 01 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT