The original source code for the World Wide Web that was written by its inventor Tim Berners-Lee on a NeXTcube from Steve Jobs’ NeXT…
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‘Max Headroom’ anticipated the head-exploding information overload of today
Each day, it seems, brings a bewildering flood of news stories: impeachment hearings, the details of each development quickly surpassed by some new outrage powered by algorithm…
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Here’s his plan to fix it.
I wanted the web to serve humanity. It’s not too late to live up to that promise…
The early 1990s Internet belongs in a museum
Apple has long been revered for the clean, minimal style of its products and for its slick press conferences and ads…
Before the World Wide Web did anything, Apple’s HyperCard did everything
I sat down with it one evening and noticed a program on the applications menu. ‘HyperCard?’ I wondered. ‘What’s that?’
3 decades on, Apple’s HyperCard lives on at The Internet Archive
On August 11, 1987, Bill Atkinson announced a new product from Apple for the Macintosh…
Tim Berners-Lee lists his 3 biggest fears for the future of the web: Fake news, privacy, political advertising
I imagined the web as an open platform that would allow everyone, everywhere to share information…
FileMaker 15 released, platform enables custom app development with greater mobility, automation, performance and security
Today FileMaker, Inc. announced the latest release of its highly successful custom app platform, FileMaker 15…
Watch Steve Jobs launch ‘his biggest product failure’
The only record of Steve Jobs’ unveiling of the NeXT Computer in 1988…
Major internet backbone company is about to make a lot of websites load much faster
In February, web engineers released a way to move information over the web. Today, the protocol is taking a big step forward…
Google’s war against apps: Google’s battle to erode the importance of apps intensifies
Google last fall secretly acquired an ‘app streaming’ startup called Agawi…
Only 40% of world’s population has ever gone online
By early 2015, 3 billion people around the world will be online…
What Steve Jobs got right and wrong about the web
Even a man as visionary as Steve Jobs is going to have his hits and misses…
The Web is dying; apps are killing it
It isn’t that today’s kings of the app world want to quash innovation…
Number of websites surge past one billion milestone
The number of websites has burst above one billion and is growing apace…
The Web at 25: Created by Sir Tim Berners-Lee on Steve Jobs’ NeXTcube
This World Wide Web you’re looking at right now wasn’t always something…
Emotionless e-commerce and the death of the joy of gift-giving
I was sitting on my couch the other evening, my wife seated across from me…
Internet hit by ‘biggest attack ever’;’ disruption causes global slowdown
One of the largest computer attacks on the Internet…
