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Coming to Terms With a Global Digital Divide

Lottie Ntim | Posted 05.21.2013 | Technology
Lottie Ntim

The Internet has done much to level the playing field for people looking to launch businesses and even more so those looking to grow them, but there is still some ways to go in terms of removing the blinds of a perceived Web-based utopia.

The Future of the Web As Seen From Google I/O Day Two

John Pavley | Posted 05.17.2013 | Technology
John Pavley

It's the second day at Google I/O 2013 in San Francisco. While the other members of the HuffPost tech team on site have been pursuing sessions on Android and Google Glass, I've been focused on something much more mundane: the World Wide Web.

LOOK: The World's First Website Went Public 20 Years Ago Today

The Huffington Post | Alexis Kleinman | Posted 04.30.2013 | Technology

The World Wide Web turned 20 years old on Tuesday. On April 30, 1993, the Web went public for everyone to use (for free) and two decades late CERN, th...

21 YEARS LATER: World's First Website Still Online

The Huffington Post | Posted 08.06.2012 | Technology

Even if you can't name the inventor of the World Wide Web (It's Tim Berners-Lee!), you'll probably want to celebrate one of the information network's ...

Comparing the First Four Years of the App Store to the Early Commercial Web

Brad Spirrison | Posted 09.10.2012 | Technology
Brad Spirrison

What the App Store did for mobile media consumption in many ways parallels what Netscape did for the commercial web in the mid-90s.

7 Technologies the Military Made Possible (PHOTOS)

Chris Birk | Posted 05.10.2012 | Technology
Chris Birk

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Guarding My Minutes

Jeffrey Shaffer | Posted 01.25.2012 | Home
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 | Black Voices

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 | Technology

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 | Media
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 | Technology
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 | Technology
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 | Healthy Living
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 | Impact
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 | Healthy Living
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 | Technology
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 | World
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 | New York
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 'Z' Holly | Posted 05.25.2011 | Los Angeles
Krisztina 'Z' 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 | Technology
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 | Home

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 | Technology
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 | Technology
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 | Technology
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 | Style
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.