Category Archives: World Wide Web

Best of 2019: The Web at 30

Posted on January 10, 2020 by GilPress

[March 12, 2019] Tim Berners-Lee liberated data so it can eat the world. In his book Weaving the Web, he wrote: I was excited about escaping from the straightjacket of hierarchical documentation systems…. By being able to reference everything with … Continue reading →

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Growth in the Number of Websites, 1991-2019

Posted on October 29, 2019 by GilPress

You will find more infographics at Statista

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1.71 Billion Websites

Posted on August 23, 2019 by GilPress

You will find more infographics at Statista See also The Web At 30, Or What Has Tim Berners-Lee Wrought? A Very Short History Of The Internet And The Web

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Top 100 Websites in the U.S.

Posted on May 3, 2017 by GilPress

Source: Vodien

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Inventor of the Web Tim Berners-Lee Receives Turing Award

Posted on April 5, 2017 by GilPress

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is the recipient of the 2016 ACM A.M. Turing Award for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale. The following are quotes from Sir … Continue reading →

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The Dark Web

Posted on March 6, 2017 by GilPress

Forbes.com: The Web is like an iceberg divided into three segments, each with its own cluster of hangouts for cyber criminals and their digital breadcrumbs. The tip of the iceberg is the “Clear Web” (also called the Surface Web), indexed … Continue reading →

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News Readers Startups: Funding, Acquisitions, Shutdowns

Posted on January 4, 2016 by GilPress

CB Insights: Promising to package and deliver news in fundamentally different ways than traditional print media, news reader apps quickly captured the imagination and dollars of venture capital investors — to the tune of more than $300M. Now, many of … Continue reading →

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Organizing the world’s information, one reference at a time

Posted on December 21, 2015 by GilPress

In his book Weaving the Web, Tim Berners-Lee writes: I was excited about escaping from the straightjacket of hierarchical documentation systems…. By being able to reference everything with equal ease, the web could also represent associations between things that might … Continue reading →

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Internet’s Most-Read Stories (Infographic)

Posted on March 31, 2015 by GilPress

Fast Company: It turns out that the most-shared articles aren’t fluffy clickbait. Generally, they’re pieces that focus on grander themes: kids (“Schools Fail to Train Kids”), extreme wealth and poverty (“The World’s Poorest President,” “The Rich Alarmed by Homeless … Continue reading →

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