Overview: Web crawling focuses on discovering and listing pages across the internet at scaleWeb scraping pulls specific data like prices or headlines from known ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the broad intersection of data and society. Perhaps the first and most important detail to understand about the ...

If you think that your internet is playing up because you can't load your favorite website, or even a multiplayer game, don't worry, it likely isn't your home internet that is playing up; it's ...

The all-encompassing Internet is being demoted. — -- Internet and Web are enjoying one final day as proper nouns before they're downgraded in written form to the more generic "internet" and "web.

British computer scientist Sir Tim Berners-Lee is in the news at the moment, setting out a new “Contract for the Web” that web companies, governments and the likes of you and I should abide by to ...

Thirty years ago, listeners tuning into Morning Edition heard about a futuristic idea that could profoundly change their lives. "Imagine being able to communicate at-will with 10 million people all ...

In internet history, credit for the initial concept that developed into the World Wide Web is typically given to Leonard Kleinrock. In 1961, he wrote about ARPANET, the predecessor of the internet, in ...

Technology has evolved at a breakneck pace over the past few decades, transforming from clunky computers to powerful smartphones and from basic internet connections to the rise of artificial ...

In case you didn’t hear — on October 22, 2025, the Internet Archive, who host the Wayback Machine at archive.org, celebrated a milestone: one trillion web pages archived, for posterity. Founded in ...

“Was the internet really this bad?” I wondered to myself as I read the September 1995 issue of The Atlantic. I was reading the issue in digital form, displayed on Netscape Navigator 3 on a mid-’90s ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Gil Press writes about technology, entrepreneurs and innovation. 2014 marked two important anniversaries in the evolution of ...

In the realm of the Internet, few things carry as infamous a reputation as the Dark Web. Widely utilized for cybercrime, theft, money laundering, terrorism, and human abuse, it remains the target of ...