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, ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

Expertise from Forbes Councils members, operated under license. Opinions expressed are those of the author. The digital divide has been a hot-button issue for years. Although there is plenty of data ...

Celebrate the internet's 30th anniversary with live-streamed World Wide Web Foundation events featuring Sir Tim Berners-Lee, contribute to a crowdsourced Twitter timeline, or travel back in time by ...

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, ...

https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7249/j.ctt19w720j.1 The top theme from the panel was to leverage web technologies to improve information sharing and protection across ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...