The days of English as a global language may be coming to an end—it might be replaced in the near future by icons of smiley faces, cats and hearts. While more than 1.5 billion people speak English, 3.2 billion use the Internet, three quarters of them through smartphones equipped with Read more…
At 11am on October 21, 2016, some of most popular websites of the planet began to go offline simultaneously, including the New York Times, Twitter, Amazon, Netflix, eBay and Spotify. They were all suffering a cyber attack. The incidents brought down the United States websites and then spread rapidly across Read more…
Names such as Vinton Cerf, co-author of the TCP/IP protocols, or Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web, are essential in any review of the history of the Internet. But what is undoubtedly one of the greatest inventions since the birth of the human being is also an example Read more…