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Natasha Lomas
January 25th, 2013

HTML Pioneer Tim Berners-Lee Calls For More Online Innovation To Break Down Cultural Barriers And Build New Business Models

Tim Berners-Lee

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the hyperlinked World Wide Web, isn’t entirely happy with what he has helped to create — and has thrown down the gauntlet to web developers to come up with more disruptive forms of online communication, and build new payment protocols to support new digital business models. → Read More

Nicholas Deleon
May 6th, 2010

Web now supports non-Latin characters for addresses

Pretty important day in the history of the World Wide Web, if not the Internet as a whole. ICANN, sorta the Internet’s regulator, will for the first time now allow non-Latin characters for Web addresses. That means that, if we wanted, sometime in the future we could register a Russian version of CrunchGear.com at KPYHЧГИP.PYC (that’s just an example, who knows what the actual Russian country… → Read More