What is the Internet? The Internet is a massive public spiderweb of computer connections. It connects personal computers, mainframes, cell phones, GPS units, music players, soda pop machines, homes, car alarms, and even dog collars. All of…
History of the Web
Politicians and the Web: 15 Outrageous Quotes
As the Web becomes an ever more ubiquitous part of our culture at large, we’re going to hear more and more about it from our elected officials. For good or for bad, these people do…
Do You Remember These Search Engines?
In the not so long ago early days of the Internet, new search engines were a dime a dozen. Very few search engines actually made it through the dot-com boom/crash times to the present day, but that…
Ubernet: What Does This Term Mean?
We’ve all heard of the World Wide Web and the Internet, but how about the “Ubernet”? What does this term mean? The Ubernet is a term coined to characterize the vast interactive connections we have with each other and…
Memes: The Top 20 of All Time
First, what is a meme? Basically, a meme on the Web is a phenomenon, fad, sensation, rumor, or oddity that gets passed around quickly to large numbers of people; this can be via email, word of mouth,…
Meet the Founder of Wikipedia – Jimmy Wales
Who is Jimmy Wales? Jimmy Wales is known as one of the founders of Wikipedia, the world’s largest collaborative encyclopedia on the Web, written and edited by millions of people all over the world. What…
Meet Tim Berners-Lee, the Creator of the World Wide Web
If you’re online, using the Internet, than you need to know about Tim Berners-Lee, the instrumental force behind creating what we now know as the World Wide Web. Who is Tim Berners-Lee? Tim Berners-Lee (born 1955)…