Tag: INTERNET HISTORY

According to Yahoo, 82-percent of those who use its Instant Messenger service like to portray feelings with emoticons in their correspondences. The other 18-percent probably loathe those little winks and smiles. If you've ever been on a message board, or used instant messaging, e-mail or text messages, then you've seen the little buggers, and at some point you've probably used one yourself. This ...

GeoCities (you know, that aging homepage hosting service that you only ever arrived at by accident) is getting ready to shut its doors. The pioneering service, which eventually sold out to Yahoo! and slowly slipped into complete irrelevance, became popular in the 90's during the early dot-com boom for allowing geeks to quickly and easily create their own basic Web sites. Yahoo! very quietly ...

Al Gore may not agree, but this week marks the anniversary of the birth of the Web. 20 years ago, on March 13, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, a researcher for the European Organization for Nuclear Research lab outside of Geneva, Switzerland, proposed an idea to counter data-loss at CERN due to personnel turnover and incompatible computers. In the proposal, Berners-Lee described the predicament by stating, ...

If you're younger than 20, you might be surprised to learn that many Web site addresses are older than you are (actually, at that age, you probably think the Web has been around forever). But for those of us who can remember the days before the World Wide Web existed, the revelation is a shocker. Many of us still think the World Wide Web, as a late-'90s phenomenon, but the Internet's domains (the ...