Category: WWW

The World Wide Web turns 20 – how it’s changed the world forever On 6 August 1991, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, then a humble scientist at CERN, made the first page on the World Wide Web publicly available in a move that, unbeknown to him at the time, would change the world more quickly and profoundly … Continue reading “20 Years”

As if there is any doubt classmates.com sucks… Classmates to pay up to $9.5m to settle suit over phantom friends Seattle-based Classmates.com has agreed to pay up to $9.5 million to its users to settle a lawsuit that accused the social network of sending emails that made people believe their old friends from high school … Continue reading “Classmates.com still sucks!”

MySpace CEO resigns after less than a year He resigned when it finally dawned on him that he was CEO of Myspace. I was just over at Myspace. What a shitty, filthy neighborhood that has become. Street performers, hookers and runaways everywhere. — Marc Maron Someday, I want to go to a site that proclaims … Continue reading “MySpace CEO resigns”

Will News Corp. Pubs Be Pulled From Google News? News Corp. will likely pull all of its newspaper content from Google News once its switches from an ad-supported to a subscription-based model, according to Chairman Rupert Murdoch. Murdoch on Friday sat down with Sky News, of which News Corp. is a partial owner, to discuss … Continue reading “Will anyone miss News Corp.?”