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Cloudflare, a company that runs 20% of the web, just flipped a switch that could end the open internet as we know it, forcing ...
On April 30, 1993, the World Wide Web was released into the public domain. It revolutionized the internet and allowed users to create websites filled with graphics, audio and hyperlinks.
AI is transforming how people navigate the internet, and that has major implications for the web's business model. NPR speaks with Ashley Gold, senior tech and policy reporter at Axios.
Content vs. transport. Many people use the terms Web and Internet synonymously. In casual conversation such as "I was on the Internet" or "I was on the Web," there is no difference.
While the proto-internet dates back to the 1960s, the World Wide Web as we know it had been invented four year earlier in 1989 by CERN employee Tim Berners-Lee.
Whenever computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee makes the headlines, a significant minority of outlets inevitably, and wholly incorrectly, refer to him as “the inventor of the internet.” Here ...
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Boing Boing on MSNRetrospective about Compuserve and the pre-web InternetWhen I first got online in 1994 or so, the World Wide Web was in full flower but had yet to obscure other efforts to bring people together on the Internet. CompuServe was among them, and even then was ...
The pre-Web Internet was an almost entirely text-based world. There were ASCII-based end-user programs such as gopher, which let you use a menu to search through organized collections of files.You ...
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