Open-source software is the bedrock of internet technology, and most of it got started as hobby projects by bedroom coders. Linus Torvalds created the Linux kernel because he thought MS-DOS sucked, ...

This course is a survey of Web programming technologies. It begins with a discussion of what Web servers and clients are, how they interact, and how one sets them up. We then explore a wide variety of ...

Many aspects of the modern internet come from IRC, or at least started with IRC. Chris Messina, an early adopter of Twitter ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gil Press writes about technology, entrepreneurs and innovation. 2014 marked two important anniversaries in the evolution of ...

The evolution of web technology is exciting and has been driven by the desire for more engaging and complex experiences—from simple HTML content in 2-D to more advanced WebGL experiences in 3-D. The ...

The Internet has been a disruptive technology for the arts and media, reshaping industries while introducing new ways to organize production and distribution. The Internet’s influence in the cultural ...

Edina Harbinja is affiliated with Open Rights Group (member of the Advisory Council). Vasileios Karagiannopoulos does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or ...

Twenty years ago, the World Wide Web was closer to the wild, wild west. According to some estimates, there were just 10,000 websites and two million computers connected to the Internet -- small ...

Waltham, Mass.-based defense contractor Raytheon said on Tuesday that it has agreed to acquire Cambridge, Mass.-based BBN Technologies, known for having developed ARPANET, forerunner to the Internet, ...

The all-encompassing Internet is being demoted. — -- Internet and Web are enjoying one final day as proper nouns before they're downgraded in written form to the more generic "internet" and "web.

Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. The internet—how we both communicate with one another and together ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Zscaler, Inc. (NASDAQ: ZS), the leader in cloud security, today announced that Zscaler Internet Access™-Government (ZIA™-Government) has received Authorization to ...