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7 Technologies the Military Made Possible (PHOTOS)

Chris Birk | Posted 05.10.2012

Chris Birk

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Guarding My Minutes

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 01.25.2012

Jeffrey Shaffer

Inevitably, I will lose touch with some aspects of modern culture. Headlines that only use first names are often a mystery. I still know that 'Jessica' probably refers to Ms. Simpson but 'Kris' is off my radar. So it goes.

Happy 20th Birthday, World Wide Web!

Slate | Posted 10.06.2011

On Aug. 6, 1991, a scientist at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) named Tim Berners-Lee unveiled a project for organizing informat...

How The Internet Works

Business Insider's Silicon Alley Insider | Posted 08.27.2011

The average person spends three hours per day surfing the mobile web and spend 6 hours per day online at work. The Internet consumes our lives, but...

The Internet Grows Up: Goodbye Messy Adolescence

Arianna Huffington | Posted 08.16.2011

Arianna Huffington

The Internet has matured to the point where our online and our offline lives have merged. We're leaving behind worshiping at the altar of algorithms and entering a brave new world of community, connections and engagement.

Beyond Google: The Art of Time-Effective Information Gathering

Geri Spieler | Posted 06.01.2011

Geri Spieler

Conducting Internet research is a challenge. It's time consuming, often confusing and who ever thought too much information could be a problem? The I...

Ontornet: Lebanese Campaign Against Snail-Paced Internet Service

Magda Abu-Fadil | Posted 05.28.2011

Magda Abu-Fadil

Lebanese Internet users are mad as hell and won't take it anymore, so they've launched a campaign to gripe about the country's disgracefully sluggish access to the World Wide Web.

One For All And All For One, Once And For All

Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011

Donna Henes

These are deciding times. It is imperative for those of us who see the big picture to decide, to commit, to make a concerted effort to reach out in ever-expanding circles of affinity and embrace.

The World Wide Web Foundation

Craig Newmark | Posted 05.25.2011

Craig Newmark

Hey, there are a lot of good groups advancing the cause of the open net, and also extending that to people who need a break. One particularly effecti...

Connecting To The World Wide Web Of Life

Donna Henes | Posted 11.17.2011

Donna Henes

Every person, every mammal, comes into this world powerfully, primally, connected to the mother who bore them, the source and the resource of their life.

When Your Country Gets Erased From the Internet: Egypt, Net Neutrality, and Web Freedom

Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.25.2011

Alex Pasternack

At precisely 12:34 a.m. on Friday morning, the Egyptian government apparently shut down Internet access not just from but into Egypt. That is, Egypt didn't lose Internet access: the Internet lost Egypt.

U.S. Intel Agencies Catching al-Qaeda in its own Web

Keith Thomson | Posted 05.25.2011

Keith Thomson

Devastated by Predator attacks, al-Qaeda is transforming from a terrorist group that uses propaganda into a propaganda group that outsources terrorism.

To Document or Not to Document, That Is the Question...

Brad Balfour | Posted 05.25.2011

Brad Balfour

Living in Manhattan is a very public act of contact with humanity. Yet this notion, to document some aspect of my life for a day -- rather than talking to others about theirs -- stirs anxiety in me.

The Academy and Fashion -- An Unlikely Pair Teaches Us About Innovation

Krisztina Holly | Posted 05.25.2011

Krisztina Holly

In the rush to protect our ideas we often overlook the fact that the value of some ideas are most fully realized when they are shared, not kept secret.

Attention -- The Internet Is Killing Ours: An Interview With Rachel Dretzin, Producer of Frontline's Digital Nation

Alex Pasternack | Posted 05.25.2011

Alex Pasternack

While some of the best documentaries draw our attention to little-known corners of the world, producer Rachel Dretzin has been blowing up our preconceptions by training her lenses on the what's around us right now.

Tim Berners-Lee Apologizes For Forward Slashes In URLs

BBC | Posted 05.25.2011

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, has confessed that the // in a web address were actually "unnecessary"....

From The Pentagon To Monty Python: The Internet Turns 40

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Chris Weigant

Technology has grown by such leaps and bounds since 1969 that it's hard to conceive how things were before we all had access to computers.

Video: Sir Tim Berners-Lee Says the Semantic Web Has Arrived and the Obama Administration is "Onboard"

Andy Plesser | Posted 05.25.2011

Andy Plesser

Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web, has been on a quest for several years for the adoption of something he has coined the semantic Web -- a data-rich, interconnected Web.

A Personal Card to the Internet. Happy 40th Birthday!

Don Tapscott | Posted 05.25.2011

Don Tapscott

Of all the technology marvels of 1969, the Internet has been a late bloomer. Email was introduced in 1971, but the first web browser didn't come along until 1990.

Green Is the New Black

Charlotte Safavi | Posted 05.25.2011

Charlotte Safavi

Ultimately, those who embraced green in clothing or fashion accessories were rejecting the status quo. Fashion sometimes has a way of getting under the skin.

Jimmy Kimmel Celebrates The Internet's 40th Birthday With Montage Of Its Stupidest Moments (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

The Internet celebrated its 40th birthday this week, and Jimmy Kimmel got all all sentimental as a result. He decided to celebrate with a salute to al...

As Internet turns 40, barriers threaten its growth

AP | ANICK JESDANUN | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — Goofy videos weren't on the minds of Len Kleinrock and his team at UCLA when they began tests 40 years ago on what would become the I...

Gov 2.0: The Promise of Innovation

Tim O'Reilly | Posted 05.25.2011

Tim O'Reilly

Can government become a platform of, for and by the people?

Coming Soon: A New Web - It's Global, Mobile and as Transformational as the World Wide Web

Rahul Sonnad | Posted 05.25.2011

Rahul Sonnad

Just as the late 90's created a rush for business to move onto the World Wide Web, in the next three years, every major location-based business will move to the Global Mobile Web.

A Pandemic Worse than the Swine Flu

Patrick Takahashi | Posted 05.25.2011

Patrick Takahashi

Swine flu, though, conjures dark images of your mortality. The communications industry, like CNN, saturates air time on such issues because they know people will watch.