How do you sing happy birthday to a computer? Or, more specifically, how do you sing happy birthday to a system of hyperlinked files accessible, by the internet, that live inside your computer (and phone, and tablet, and so on)? It is, after all, the World Wide Web’s 25th birthday.
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Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. As he mentioned today in his Reddit AMA session (that’s Ask Me Anything, a popular method of popular people speaking to the internet), … Continue reading
Would you know Reddit or Twitter if you were only looking at their layouts? You might not think so—but you’d be surprised how well you know the structure of your most-used sites. Now, you can take a test to find out.
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The inventor of the world wide web has used the 25th anniversary of his creation to call for an online “bill of rights” to protect the internet’s independence, with Sir … Continue reading
Daddy of the internet Tim Berners-Lee has spoken out in an attempt to enshrine the independence of the world wide web, telling the Guardian that he believes we need an online Magna Carta to protect the rights of its users world wide.
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Following Edward Snowden’s call for internet users to encrypt everything as a matter of course is likely to make you an even bigger target for the NSA, activist journalist Glenn … Continue reading
Internet-based television has been thrust back into the spotlight following a deal earlier this week between Disney and Dish Network, and subsequent revelations by DirecTV and Verizon about their own … Continue reading
Italy is cracking down on piracy in a mass shutdown of websites — in the form of blocking at the Internet service provider level — that are related in some … Continue reading
You use Wi-Fi everyday, but have you heard of its cousin, Li-Fi? Devices that use blinking lights to transmit data could provide the wireless Internet of the future.
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We’ve seen a steady stream of official details and anonymous tips about Dish Network and DirecTV’s Internet TV ambitions since the original rumor surfaced on Monday. Yesterday, Verizon’s CEO Lowell … Continue reading
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