Today in Web development history. The responsive design of The Boston Globe launched in 2011. It was the first major site to use RWD and was a showcase of the techniques
I heard Ethan Marcotte share about the design a couple of months earlier at the Front-End Design Conference in St. Pete. Front end development by Filament Group + Ethan.
https://www.filamentgroup.com/lab/introducing-the-new-responsive-designed-bostonglobecom