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Last year, we marked the web’s birthday just one day after the World Health Organization declared the Covid-19 crisis a pandemic. In the 12 months since, the web — like so many of us — has been tested like never before. Today, as the web turns 32, it has proven to be a lifeline that allows us to adapt and carry on.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee warns that huge digital divide among young people threatens chances of a better post-Covid world.

The Web Foundation and the Science Museum in the UK are celebrating the 30th birthday of the World Wide Web, and as you'd expect, Sir Tim Berners-Lee will be at the forefront of celerbations.

The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has been awarded the 2016 A.M. Turing Award, by the Association for Computing Machinery.

It's the middle of December and that means one thing - 2014 prediction pieces. Russian multi-national anti-virus and Internet security firm Kaspersky Lab has joined the fun, asking its security experts to prepare their business, end-user and Internet forecasts for 2014.

As mobile applications running under proprietary platforms - iOS, Android, Windows, etc - proliferate the World Wide Web community has a vision to build equivalent functionality into the browser specifications so that application writers will have access to a much wider community without 'lock in' to any one platform.

The jury is still out, but there are strong rumblings that social media connections are considerably more valuable and more persistent than those derived from search.  Google, are you in trouble?

A 'group buy' voucher operation is threatening action against a site that aggregates such offers, thereby driving additional traffic to it.