Well, it didn't, exactly. As with many inventions, in order to understand how today's Web developed, you have to look farther back than its official introduction. The seeds of the Web were planted ...

In the early days of the World Wide Web – with the Year 2000 and the threat of a global collapse of society were still years away – the crafting of a website on the WWW was both special and ...

Forward-looking: The original World Wide Web software platform was developed by computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee while he was working at CERN. The novel information system was designed to promote ...

Tim Berners-Lee may have the smallest fame-to-impact ratio of anyone living. Strangers hardly ever recognize his face; on “Jeopardy!,” his name usually goes for at least sixteen hundred dollars.

Move over, .com. Get ready for .anything .you .can .think .of. The body that controls the way Internet domain names work, known as ICANN, has voted to open up the naming system so that any established ...

One of the arguments I’ve heard for why Apple will not allow other browser engines is that they can artificially restrict WebKit. It’s not as good of a competitor to the native apps on the iPhone as ...