When we want to share information on the web today, we typically pick up our smartphones and tap out a few words. Almost magically, our knowledge bits get hurled into the ether for the entire Internet ...

Given the World Wide Web's ubiquity, you might be tempted to believe that everything is online. But there's one important piece of the Web's own history that can't be found through a search engine: ...

Someone out there could have a missing copy of the world's first Web site from 1990. Have you checked your old floppies lately? Eric Mack has been a CNET contributor since 2011. Eric and his family ...

Last week, NPR's All Things Considered featured a story called "The First Web Page, Amazingly, Is Lost." The piece ended with a plea: Perhaps someone out there, someone listening to their radio, ...

It might not be much to look at, but in the history of the World Wide Web, this image is a landmark. It's the earliest web page found so far, according to scientists at the nuclear research group CERN ...

Editor's note: As the United States marks the 10th anniversary of its first Web page, CNET News.com is publishing a series of interviews examining the changes wrought by this breakthrough invention's ...

The commonly held image of the American Web pioneer is that of a twenty-something, bespectacled computer geek hunched over his Unix box in the wee hours of the morning, surrounded by the detritus of ...

Given the World Wide Web's ubiquity, you might be tempted to believe that everything is online. But there's one important piece of the Web's own history that can't be found through a search engine: ...