Abstract The chapter “Introduction: A Historical Journey” published in the book “Continuous Nowhere Differentiable Functions”, pages 1–6, DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12670-8_1, has been retracted by the request of the Editor, because portions of the text are duplicated without permission from a previously published article by Adam Kucharski.KeywordsContinuous NowhereStrange FunctionGrace Chisholm YoungWeierstrass ExampleWeierstrass's LecturesThese keywords were added by machine and not by the authors. This process is experimental and the keywords may be updated as the learning algorithm improves.