Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the Web, showed up at the first day of the UN-backed Internet Governance Forum meeting in Egypt to announce the creation of the "World Wide Web Foundation."

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When the search engine Wolfram Alpha launched earlier this year, the interest was huge. Enticed by a well-oiled publicity machine, web users swamped the site and its servers were overwhelmed.

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The fine folks from the Thurston County, WA, Sheriff's Office bring us tips for your child's online safety...

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Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the British scientist who created the World Wide Web, has admitted his decision to include two forward slashes in internet addresses were a mistake.

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Remember the days when the word Google was not interchangeable with internet? Or when every site seemed to have a Netscape icon on it? Or when Flash was still something you cleaned your floor with? Then you were clearly using the web in the mid to late 1990s when pages were rudim …

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We all come across some seriously bad websites in our day-to-day lives on the Internet. It's just an unavoidable fact of life, like coming across monsters on the way to the market in video games.

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Twenty years ago, in a research establishment in the Swiss Alps, a British-born computer scientist dreamt up a new way for academics to share information around the globe.

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By now, you have likely come across a strange-looking URL. Arranged as various characters, it's not like the usual Web address. Rather, it's a shortened URL from a redirection service, such as Tiny.url or bit.ly.

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Appointing a national coordinator for cyber security efforts with direct access to the president is a must, Representative Dutch Ruppersberger, a Maryland Democrat and a member of the House intelligence committee, said in a phone interview.

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The Obama administration lodged a formal protest on Wednesday with the Chinese government over its plan to force all computers sold in China to come with software that blocks access to certain Web sites.

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France's highest court has inflicted an embarrassing blow to President Sarkozy by cutting the heart out of a law that was supposed to put France in the forefront of the fight against piracy on the internet.

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A list of my favorite non-answer answers from the blogosphere

I look at a lot of forums, blogs, comments, whatever from all over the Internet. From Daily Kos to RedState, all the web media have outlets for people to reason, rant or just speak their piece. Most of the time, posters will state their opinions unequivocally.

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The Wall Street Journal's Phred Dvorak has a thought-provoking feature on the use of laptops and Internet services by homeless people, who, like everyone else, use them for civic engagement with politicians, social interaction, job hunting, and entrepreneurial pursuits.

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Web giant Google has unveiled new products that it says will push search in a new direction. Google is using so-called semantic web technology to leverage the underlying data on websites to enhance results.

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The Associated Press and its member newspapers will take legal action against Web sites that use newspaper articles without legal permission, the group said on Monday, in a clear shot at aggregators like Google.

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Some interesting factoids of how the Web started. Enjoy!

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The Facebook staff really have no idea what they are doing, where they are taking the site, and what branding means.

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It was 13 March 1989 when Tim Berners-Lee, working at Cern in Geneva, came up with the concept that became the worldwide web.

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The creator of the worldwide web warned today against the collection of users' data by commercial organisations.

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It's 1996, and you're bored. What do you do? If you're one of the lucky people with an AOL account, you probably do the same thing you'd do in 2009: Go online.

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Blogs — an ugly word, but now unavoidable — were born with the internet. As soon as people started to use the technology that would link computers, they started leaving messages. In the 1980s, these were "pinned" on virtual "bulletin boards".

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Since it's the weekend, here's something just for kicks that's been making the rounds: In 1981, San Francisco TV station KRON aired a news segment about how a select group of computer users were getting their daily copy of the San Francisco Examiner not on paper, but on the …

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The US government is a brand; the world's oldest brand (not to be confused with its oldest profession) and one often overlooked in favor of the obvious companies and celebrities. The United States of America is arguably a brand in dire need of refreshing.

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"Imagine, if you will, sitting down to your morning coffee, turning on your home computer to see the day's newspaper. Well, it's not as far-fetched as it may seem." Thus begins this video of a 1981 KRON report predicting the rise of news reporting on the internet.

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There are a multitude of way to store clipping of interesting things you find on the web -- bookmark services like Delicious, clippings tools like Evernote and more.

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