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WWW Compatibility and accessibility

Often names appear as DNS subdomain names, without waiting for standardization. Conversely, not all parts of standards such as HTML or CSS are properly implemented. This leads to incompatibilities between certain sites and certain browsers.

Particularly “distinguished” by such incompatibilities that were at the beginning of the Internet boom like the company Netscape, or <img src=”http://www.ineedcontent.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/WWW-Compatibility-and-accessibility-300×176.png” [...]

What is Webdesign

Web design includes the design, construction and management of sites for the user or the Web interface design in this area. These are usually structured texts that are written in XHTML or HTML format, including additional graphics with CSS. The web designer has to make the task of the clients wishes, the wishes of visitors [...]

What is the World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a Internet hypertext system.  On 6<sup>th</sup> August 1991 it was globally released for general use.  To use the World Wide Web is a web <img class=”alignleft size-medium wp-image-21″ title=”What is the World Wide Web” src=”http://www.ineedcontent.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/What-is-the-World-Wide-Web-300×216.png” alt=”What is the World Wide Web” width=”300″ height=”216″ />browser, which fetches the data from the [...]

What is Spamdexing

Search engine spamming or index spamming (Spamdexing) refers to all actions that result in an Internet search engine for a keyword entry point to the websites that are not relevant to the user or the search term’s relevant information.

Google search engine spamming is also known as spamming Google. The more specific concept Googleating (read: “Google-ating”) [...]

What is SERP

The results page of a search engine (also known by the acronym SERP “search engine results page), is a web page that a search engine generates automatically based on keywords entered by a user, and consists of a set of links to resources that it considers, among those that index, as relevant to this complaint [...]

What is Phreaking

The hacker scene from the field of computer security goes back historically to phreaking, a subculture which deals with the manipulation of telephone connections, which in particular provides the ability to switch telephone conferences and make free phone calls.

The roots of this subculture go as far back as the mid-1840s, when the first major telegraph [...]

What is PageRank

Google sorts the search results using their own PageRank algorithm. Each site is assigned a number based on the number of links from other pages that point to the value of those pages, and other non-public criteria.

PageRank was made a trademark and patentada1 by Google on January 9th 1999 that covers a family of algorithms [...]

What is nofollow

nofollow is a micro-format (full HTML notation rel = “nofollow”) inside hyperlinks, which tells search engines not to draw upon these to calculate the link popularity. Note that this is not the case for all search engines.  A normal hyperlink, for example on the page ‘example.com’, will be awarded in the HTML code as follows:

<a [...]

What is keyword stuffing

Keyword stuffing is a term referring to the web and SEO that means using techniques considered very accurate in order to increase its visibility on search engines.

The term comes from the keyword, which in web marketing and search engine positioning has come to mean “group of words which focuses on the webpage in question” (e.g. [...]

What is Indexing

The indexing of a text is to find in it certain words or expressions which are particularly significant (called terms) in a given context, and create a link between these terms and <img src=”http://www.ineedcontent.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/What-is-Indexing-300×186.gif” alt=”What is Indexing” title=”What is Indexing” width=”300″ height=”186″ />the original text.  For example, the index pages of a book resume (sometimes) [...]

What is Image Search ?

An image search engine is a search engine that searches mostly in the free-access Internet  for images. These and similar image search engines interpret the file names of images and the verbal context in which they are made.

There are not yet available search engines that can automatically detect the image content (Content Based Image Retrieval).  [...]

What is HTML5

HTML5 has not yet appeared in developing HTML markup language (currently: 4.01).

An initial proposal for HTML5 was first released in mid-2004 under the name of WHATWG Web Applications 1.0.

Near the end of 2006, Tim Berners-Lee announced that a new working group would arise to develop HTML. This had the W3C creating competition in their <img [...]

What is HTML, Hypertext Markup Language

The Hypertext Markup Language (HTML, hypertext dt)-markup language, often referred to simply as hypertext, is a text-based markup language for structuring of content such as text, images and <img title=”What is HTML, Hypertext Markup Language” src=”http://www.ineedcontent.info/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/What-is-HTML-Hypertext-Markup-Language-257×300.png” alt=”What is HTML, Hypertext Markup Language” width=”257″ height=”300″ />hyperlinks in documents.  HTML documents are the foundation of the World [...]

What is hacking

Hacker has several meanings in the technical field. The word is used colloquially to refer to someone that penetrates through a network of computer systems and is also part of a corresponding subculture. In a narrower sense, since the 1950s, the expression is used regarding subcultures for self-designation.

The common feature is that a [...]

What is Bing

Bing is an Internet search engine from Microsoft, which has completely replaced the previous search engine Live Search. It came on stream in June 2009. Microsoft calls its search engine a “decision engine,” stressing Bing should “provide the user not only with the desired information more quickly, but also assist in daily decision-making about [...]

What is an URL

As a Uniform Resource Locator (URL, GV “single source of indicator”) it refers to a type of Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). URLs identify and locate a resource on the used network protocol (e.g. HTTP or FTP) and the location of the resource in the computer. URLs represent the first and most common type of [...]

What is an Algorithm

An algorithm (or solution method) refers to a clearly defined requirement for action to solve a problem or a certain type of problem in a finite number of steps. In daily life, it is easy to find examples of algorithms: for instance a recipe. Sub-tasks, such as frying or stirring are also algorithms. [...]

What is a Website

A website is a whole project on the World Wide Web, usually consisting of several web pages or documents (files) and other resources. In addition, one web site is commonly linked together by a single navigation (hypertext procedures). The site is an HTML file; the website is a resource that is [...]

What is a Webmaster

The word webmaster is a term commonly used to refer to the person responsible for a specific website. In a small website, the webmaster will typically be the owner, designer, developer and programmer, besides acting as the clerks in the writing, editing and publication of content.

In larger sites, the functions of the [...]

What is a Webcrawler, spider, Searchbot

A web crawler (or spider or Searchbot) is a computer program that automatically searches the World Wide Web, and analyzes Web pages. Web crawlers are mainly used by search engines. Other applications include the collection of RSS feeds, e-mail addresses or other information.

Web crawlers are a special kind of bot computer programs, i.e. pursuing [...]

What is a Web Browser

A browser or web browser is a program that lets you view the information contained in a website (this is already hosted on a server within the World Wide Web or on a local one). The browser interprets the code, usually HTML, which is written in the web page and presents it on screen allowing [...]

What is a Search Engine Results Page

The results page of a search engine is also known by the acronym SERP or “search engine results page” and is a web page that a search engine generates automatically based on keywords entered by a user.

It consists of a set of links to resources that it considers as relevant to this complaint under its [...]

What is a Meta tag

The meta tags are in the head section of an HTML document, i.e. in element. One is sent to the specific page to the browser, but it is not displayed, instead the source of the page is visible. There are different metadata schemas, developed partly by institutions or bodies (e.g. Dublin Core).

Very few [...]

What is a link farm

Link farms are a collection of web pages or whole domains on the Web, which primarily serves the purpose to put as many links to other web presences as possible. The individual pages of such a Link farm are often very similar or identical to each other.

The establishment of such link farms is the [...]

What is a Content Management System

A content management system (abbreviated CMS) is a program to create a support structure (framework) for creating and managing content on web pages mainly for the participants. It consists of an interface controlling one or more databases which hosts the site content.

The system can independently manage the content and design. It is possible [...]

What Are Search Engines

A search engine is a program to help find information that is stored in a computer or a computer network such as the World Wide Web. Internet search engines have their origins in information retrieval systems.

After entering a search query a search engine returns a list of references to potentially relevant documents, usually depicted [...]

Boss of iPhone leaving Apple after antenna problems

Though no one at Apple has confirmed it, the departure of Mark Papermaster is rumored to be the result of his part in the problem with Apple’s iPhone 4.  When that device was released in June this year, customers reported that when the phone was held in a certain way it [...]

Origins of hacking

American hams in the mid-1950s used the term “hacking” as an expression for the most imaginative adaptations of their devices, which served to improve their performance.

In the late 1950s, hacking was also from the model railroad club at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), more precisely, the TMRC (Tech Model Railroad Club of MIT), which also [...]

Search Engine Characteristics

The most popular and widely used combination of features use the WWW as a data source for text documents in HTML format and build on the realization of an index. The interpretation of the input is mostly on the basis of a simple syntax, which for instance

“ – “ can be excluded as a keyword. [...]

Search engine data

Different search engines search different types of data. First, they can be divided roughly into “document types” such as text, image, sound, video etc. Results pages are designed as a function of this genus.

When you search for text documents they are usually presented with a text fragment that contains the search terms (often called [...]

Search engine data source

Another characteristic of categorizing is the source which is covered by the search engine data. Most have already described the source. Web search engines collect documents from the World Wide Web. Vertical search engines look at a selected area captured by the World Wide Web, and Web documents only on a [...]

Search Engine Interpretation

The query is interpreted by a user before the actual search and is an algorithm used internally in a comprehensible form. This serves to keep the syntax of the request as simple as possible and still allow for complex queries.

Many search engines support the logical interconnection of different search words using Boolean operators. This can [...]

Search Engine OptimizationSearch Engine Optimization

Search Engine Optimization or Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is measures that serve websites that appear in search engine rankings to higher ranks. Search engine optimization is a branch of the search engine marketing.

In the search engine optimization techniques, web crawlers and algorithms are used for sorting of search engines. These are the operators of search [...]

Search Engine Realization

This section describes differences in the realization of the operation of the engine.

Index-based search engine

Metasearch

Federated Search Engines

Nowadays, the most important group are index-based search engines. This is a data structure that is used during a later search. Drawbacks are the expensive maintenance and storage of the index. The advantage is the acceleration [...]

Search Engines

AltaVista

AltaVista is a search engine for the Internet. It emerged from a research project of the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC), that was presented at the end of 1995. It was one of the first search engine which enabled the user to carry out a full search for relevant sites on the Internet. [...]

SEO Ethical rules

Methods that bring non-relevant websites to the front of the results pages of search engines is known as search engine spamming and there are contrary rules to set up the search engines to protect against manipulation of their search results.

Thus it is possible to set up automated redirects as search engines specifically containing pages of [...]

Traditional search engine optimization

In traditional search engine optimization one or two keywords are optimized.  Often, an extensive site is divided into several pages to optimize them for various search terms. In the search, words are combined with appropriate content.

This (classical) field belongs to the so-called “OnPage Optimization”, which means all methods and options that may be in the [...]

Versions of HTML

When designing the last HTML version 4, many HTML documents, or elements and attributes were used for the presentation and were taken into account. The results were eventually given three variants:

Strict

This DTD includes the core set of elements and attributes. It lacks most elements and attributes to influence the presentation, including the elements of font, [...]

Vertical Search

A vertical search engine is a search engine specialized in a particular sector or niche, allowing you to analyze information in greater depth than a generic form, have fresher results and provide the user with advanced search tools.

The niche search engines are not new. Web sites that help users find people, shop, and get information [...]

What are Menus

In computing, a menu is a series of options users may choose to use to perform a certain task. The menus are contained in a menu bar, this is because the menu bar itself is not a window, but it is a toolbar, but a container object for other menus.

Menu Structure

The menus are organized following [...]

What Are Search Engines

A search engine is a program to help find information that is stored in a computer or a computer network such as the World Wide Web. Internet search engines have their origins in information retrieval systems.

After entering a search query a search engine returns a list of references to potentially relevant documents, usually depicted [...]

HTML Language types

HTML is a markup language and is not programmed as such, but is simply written.  A similar approach (logical description), as behind HTML is behind the typesetting system TeX/LaTeX, which in contrast to HTML, however focuses on the output via printer on paper.

Versions

HTML was devised on 13th March 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee at CERN in [...]

HTML techniques and developments

Style Sheets

Over the years, HTML has been extended to include elements that deal with the design of the document, which ran contrary to the original idea of the system independence. A return to the separation of content (structure) and layout was done by the definition of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Thus, the appearance of the [...]

I Need Content

This site takes a close look at many related subjects including search engine optimization, or SEO as it is commonly known, and what effect it can have on search engine positioning. For example what effect showing up on the first page of a Google search can have on increasing blog visits by people who are [...]

Internet MarketingInternet Marketing

Internet marketing is the use of the Internet for advertising leading to sales of goods or services. Internet marketing consists of pay per click, ad banners, email marketing, affiliate marketing, interactive advertising, optimizing pages, blog marketing, buzz marketing, product marketing and blogging.

Outline and definition

Internet Marketing is a part of e-commerce or electronic commerce. E-commerce and [...]

Is it Spam or optimization

All manipulations that are used to enforce non-relevant results in search engines are spam. So is any one of the websites linked with each other with the sole intent of improving the position of a certain website that does not provide the match to the most relevant information to a spammer?

The adjustment on the [...]

Keyword Density

The concept of keyword density – – comes from the search engine optimization and the ratio of the number of occurrences of a search term to the sum of all words of text describing a Web page, expressed as a percentage.

Influence on the search engine ranking

The evaluation of a website for a search query entered [...]

What is a Web Browser

A browser or web browser is a program that lets you view the information contained in a website (this is already hosted on a server within the World Wide Web or on a local one). The browser interprets the code, usually HTML, which is written in the web page and presents it on screen allowing [...]

What is a Webcrawler, spider, Searchbot

A web crawler (or spider or Searchbot) is a computer program that automatically searches the World Wide Web, and analyzes Web pages. Web crawlers are mainly used by search engines. Other applications include the collection of RSS feeds, e-mail addresses or other information.

Web crawlers are a special kind of bot computer programs, i.e. pursuing [...]

What is a Webmaster

The word webmaster is a term commonly used to refer to the person responsible for a specific website. In a small website, the webmaster will typically be the owner, designer, developer and programmer, besides acting as the clerks in the writing, editing and publication of content.

In larger sites, the functions of the Webmaster will [...]

What is a Website

A website is a whole project on the World Wide Web, usually consisting of several web pages or documents (files) and other resources. In addition, one web site is commonly linked together by a single navigation (hypertext procedures). The German name is from the English term website. The site is an HTML [...]

What is an Algorithm

An algorithm (or solution method) refers to a clearly defined requirement for action to solve a problem or a certain type of problem in a finite number of steps. In daily life, it is easy to find examples of algorithms: for instance a recipe. Sub-tasks, such as frying or stirring are also algorithms.

Also [...]

What is an URL

As a Uniform Resource Locator (URL, GV “single source of indicator”) it refers to a type of Uniform Resource Identifiers (URIs). URLs identify and locate a resource on the used network protocol (e.g. HTTP or FTP) and the location of the resource in the computer. URLs represent the first and most common type of [...]

What is Bing

Bing is an Internet search engine from Microsoft, which has completely replaced the previous search engine Live Search. It came on stream in June 2009. Microsoft calls its search engine a “decision engine,” stressing Bing should “provide the user not only with the desired information more quickly, but also assist in daily decision-making about [...]

What is hacking

Hacker has several meanings in the technical field. The word is used colloquially to refer to someone that penetrates through a network of computer systems and is also part of a corresponding subculture. In a narrower sense, since the 1950s, the expression is used regarding subcultures for self-designation.

The common feature is that a hacker [...]

What is HTML, Hypertext Markup Language

The Hypertext Markup Language (HTML, hypertext dt)-markup language, often referred to simply as hypertext, is a text-based markup language for structuring of content such as text, images and hyperlinks in documents. HTML documents are the foundation of the World Wide Web and are represented by a Web browser. In addition to the content [...]

What is HTML5

HTML5 has not yet appeared in developing HTML markup language (currently: 4.01).

An initial proposal for HTML5 was first released in mid-2004 under the name of WHATWG Web Applications 1.0.

Near the end of 2006, Tim Berners-Lee announced that a new working group would arise to develop HTML. This had the W3C creating competition in their own [...]

What is Image Search ?

An image search engine is a search engine that searches mostly in the free-access Internet for images. These and similar image search engines interpret the file names of images and the verbal context in which they are made.

There are not yet available search engines that can automatically detect the image content (Content Based Image [...]

What is Indexing

In bibliography

The indexing of a text is to find in it certain words or expressions which are particularly significant (called terms) in a given context, and create a link between these terms and the original text. For example, the index pages of a book resume (sometimes) the significant terms appearing in the book, are [...]

What is keyword stuffing

Keyword stuffing is a term referring to the web and SEO that means using techniques considered very accurate in order to increase its visibility on search engines.

The term comes from the keyword, which in web marketing and search engine positioning has come to mean “group of words which focuses on the webpage in question” (e.g. [...]

What is nofollow

nofollow is a micro-format (full HTML notation rel = “nofollow”) inside hyperlinks, which tells search engines not to draw upon these to calculate the link popularity. Note that this is not the case for all search engines. A normal hyperlink, for example on the page ‘example.com’, will be awarded in the HTML code as [...]

What is PageRank

Google sorts the search results using their own PageRank algorithm. Each site is assigned a number based on the number of links from other pages that point to the value of those pages, and other non-public criteria.

PageRank was made a trademark and patentada1 by Google on January 9th 1999 that covers a family of algorithms [...]

What is Phreaking

The hacker scene from the field of computer security goes back historically to phreaking, a subculture which deals with the manipulation of telephone connections, which in particular provides the ability to switch telephone conferences and make free phone calls.

The roots of this subculture go as far back as the mid-1840s, when the first major telegraph [...]

What is a Content Management System

A content management system (abbreviated CMS) is a program to create a support structure (framework) for creating and managing content on web pages mainly for the participants. It consists of an interface controlling one or more databases which hosts the site content.

The system can independently manage the content and design. It is possible [...]

What is a link farm

Link farms are a collection of web pages or whole domains on the Web, which primarily serves the purpose to put as many links to other web presences as possible. The individual pages of such a Link farm are often very similar or identical to each other.

The establishment of such link farms is the [...]

What is a Meta tag

The meta tags are in the head section of an HTML document, i.e. in element. One is sent to the specific page to the browser, but it is not displayed, instead the source of the page is visible. There are different metadata schemas, developed partly by institutions or bodies (e.g. Dublin Core).

Very few [...]

What is a Search Engine Results Page

The results page of a search engine is also known by the acronym SERP or “search engine results page” and is a web page that a search engine generates automatically based on keywords entered by a user.

It consists of a set of links to resources that it considers as relevant to this complaint under its [...]

What is SERP

The results page of a search engine (also known by the acronym SERP “search engine results page), is a web page that a search engine generates automatically based on keywords entered by a user, and consists of a set of links to resources that it considers, among those that index, as relevant to this complaint [...]

What is Spamdexing

Search engine spamming or index spamming (Spamdexing) refers to all actions that result in an Internet search engine for a keyword entry point to the websites that are not relevant to the user or the search term’s relevant information.

Google search engine spamming is also known as spamming Google. The more specific concept Googleating (read: “Google-ating”) [...]

What is the World Wide Web

The World Wide Web is a Internet hypertext system. On 6th August 1991 it was globally released for general use. To use the World Wide Web is a web browser, which fetches the data from the Web server and displays it on the screen. The user can follow the links in the document [...]

WWW Compatibility and accessibility

Often names appear as DNS subdomain names, without waiting for standardization. Conversely, not all parts of standards such as HTML or CSS are properly implemented. This leads to incompatibilities between certain sites and certain browsers.

Particularly “distinguished” by such incompatibilities that were at the beginning of the Internet boom like the company Netscape, or especially today, [...]

What is Webdesign

Web design includes the design, construction and management of sites for the user or the Web interface design in this area. These are usually structured texts that are written in XHTML or HTML format, including additional graphics with CSS. The web designer has to make the task of the clients wishes, the wishes of visitors [...]

Algorithms definitions

The lack of mathematical accuracy of the term algorithm bothered many mathematicians and logicians of the 19th and 20 Century, so in the first half of the 20th Century a number of approaches have been developed which should lead to a precise definition.

Formalization of the concept of predictability is the Turing machine (Alan Turing), register [...]

Google

Google Inc. is the owner of the Google brand, whose main product is the search engine of the same name. It was founded on 4th September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin (Stanford Ph.D. students in computer science from Stanford University).

While its main product is the Browser, the company also offers among other services: [...]

Google details

Google is (not very) arguably the largest Internet search engine and the most used. It offers a quick and easy way to find information on the web, with access to an index of more than 8.168 million web pages.

According to the company, now Google responds to more than 200 million requests per day. The [...]

Google other services

It also has a calculator for basic arithmetic, Google Calc, and a currency converter, if you write an arithmetic operation in the search box, Google Calc is activated to give us the result.

Google Page Creator offers a simple web page editor with a space of 100 megabytes, Google Spreadsheets spreadsheet online and Picasa as a [...]

Googles other sites

Google Images

This is a specialization of the main search engine for images. From 2005 onwards can be filtered by size into small, medium, large and extra large. It is also possible to search by formats (JPG, GIF and PNG) and color (black and white, grayscale and color).

Google Groups

Main article: Google Groups

Google Groups is [...]

Hacker Culture

Despite some opposing viewpoints developed between the following subcultures similarities in political and social objectives and an overall appreciation for the discussion of technique. Especially since the mid-1980s, there have been overlaps on ideas and members of the mass, especially in Europe, where hackers have increasingly contemporary cultural roots.

The academic hacker culture

The “hacker emblem”, [...]

Hacker or Cracker

The definition and use of ‘hacker’ is the subject of considerable controversy among various subcultures. The Jargon File illustrates the self-understanding of academic hacker culture, a name that suggests the original academic environment that subculture does not mean that hacking at the time was an academic study.

During the Jargon File basket in response to bad [...]

Hacker problem solving

As pointed out, a hacker is the self-referential dedication in dealing with technology. They show enthusiasm for the fun of hacking for solving problems that are purely practical considerations. A hacker enjoys the intellectual challenge of creatively overcoming or circumventing limitations too.

In addition to the usual use of technology it is about trying and [...]

Hackers and crackers computer security

The writer Peter Glaser coined the term “information journey”, as a metaphor for the curious machines digging in the research, which was operated by a hacker as a kind of hobby.

They made use of known vulnerabilities, such as the standard identifier “system” with password “manager” who was on DEC VAX/VMS computers and was not closed [...]

Hacking goes public

Hacking in the sense of intrusion into your computer was already possible before 1983 in computer jargon, but until that time there was no public awareness that such activities took place.

This changed with the movie WarGames. This concern was more concrete than when a group of young hackers from Milwaukee, Wisconsin called The 414S invaded [...]

History of Yahoo

Yahoo is a company based in Sunnyvale (California) and has over 500 million users worldwide. It is the most successful and largest Internet portal with online products and services for both private and business customers.

David Filo and Jerry Yang founded the company in March 1995. The company and its range of deals grew [...]

How to, Google Searches

Use double quotes: you can specify the Google engine to search for an expression composed of two or more words literally, writing the search terms in quotes. “Used cars” will search all sites containing the phrase “used cars” literally. AND: By default Google launches search results in linking the words entered by the [...]

Construction of HTML5

Construction

The current HTML version (4.01), issued in 1997 per the vote and recommendation of the W3C, only defines the language as an SGML application. HTML 4.01 joined, in recent years, other recommendations such as XML and the DOM. HTML 4.01 was reformulated with the help of XML, from which emerged XHTML 1.0.

Both languages have an [...]

Content Management System Operation

A content management system always works in the web server that is hosted on the portal. Access to the manager is usually done through a web browser, and may require the use of FTP to upload content. When a user enters a URL, the server is running on that call, selecting the graphic [...]

Differences between HTML 4.01 and HTML5

Some of the differences, so far, are to be expected.

Structuring elements:

article

The article includes an independent element section, which is, however, in the context of the ancestor elements. This applies to, for example, news articles, blogs or forum entries.

aside

This element identifies content that fits the theme surrounding the content but is not directly entailed by it. A policy [...]

Dynamic websites

Dynamic Web pages can serve as a Web interface for distributed programs: A program is not started conventionally, locally on the computer, but is simply a set of dynamic Web pages that can be viewed and operated through a web browser.

Advantage of this is that the programs are no longer distributed to individual computers, [...]

Famous hackers

Hardware hackers appeared as a strongly distinctive subtype of each other in every subculture. As an example, the Chaos Computer Club (CCC) was named as the most influential association of hackers in Germany.

Although security issues are the major field of employment and politics, industry, press, data protection and banking for this, he coined the [...]

Features of algorithms

An algorithm is determined, if it delivers on every execution with the same starting conditions and inputs the same results.

Determinism

An algorithm is deterministic, if at any stage of the algorithm execution, the next action step is clearly defined. Examples of deterministic algorithms are Bubble and the Euclidean algorithm. The rule here is that any [...]

Free Software and Open Source

Within the early academic hacker culture, it was already granted that it should be an open source software and to share their improvements with other programmers. The hacker community and the intellectual climate surrounding the “AI” host at MIT inspired the instrumental creation of the GNU project, followed by the establishment of the Free [...]

Functions of the World Wide Web

The WWW is based around three core standards: HTTP as the protocol that the browser can request information from the web server. HTML as a document markup language that defines how the information is structured and how the documents are linked (hyperlinks).

URLs as a unique address or name of a resource (e.g. a [...]

What is the Open Directory Project DMOZ

Open Directory Project (also known as the Dmoz Directory Mozilla) is a catalog of open web pages on servers maintained in the group Time Warner, in which both the category tree and all the entries are edited by a community of volunteer editors.

The idea behind the project was to create a comprehensive, free and constantly [...]

FCC trying to stop two tier Internet

The Federal Communications Commission is trying to figure out how to handle web data following a court decision to limit its powers of regulation over the Internet. The behind closed doors meeting is followed criticism of the FCC by many groups who [...]

Google Waves goodbye to the Wave

Google have announced they will no longer be supporting their newest communications tool, Google Wave. Though the program was well received internally, Google failed to get a similar reaction when Wave was released to the public.