The History of the Front Page

The front page of a newspaper contains the most important news stories of that day. It also teases other stories inside the edition.

The story of Dabholkar’s murder was front-page news in India and other countries, and it made headlines in the United States as well. But it remains a mystery to most Americans, who don’t understand the complexity of his beliefs and practices.

For decades, the Sunday front page has framed our thinking about the world and how to address its biggest problems. Through its penetrating interviews with many of our most influential newsmakers, the show has helped set the agenda for politics and policy. The stories he has told have changed lives, sparked movements and informed our understanding of history.

Despite his immense popularity, black performers have rarely made the celebrated cover; even Public Enemy at their peak was denied front-page treatment. But that changed with the emergence of rap and other styles of music. In the late ’80s, a young rapper named Ice Cube had an instant career and exploded into mainstream success. He has since starred in multiple blockbuster films and made a name for himself as a director.

Microsoft front-page is a discontinued WYSIWYG HTML editor and website administration tool that was part of the Microsoft Office suite of products until 2006. FrontPage required a set of server-side extensions, originally called IIS Extensions, then renamed FrontPage Server Extensions. Frequent security problems marred the history of this Microsoft proprietary technology. FrontPage included a number of features designed to make web site creation easier, including Intellisense (which provided a form of autocompletion) and Code Snippets (a mechanism for storing commonly used code snippets).