Real Heroes Of Web Revolution

The tech creators, or the ones who made billions, asks Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Just the other day, gazing from my home balcony at the distant hills of Raigad, I......

How the Internet was born, 25 years ago

November 12 marked 25 years of the beginning of the World Wide Web. Shivanand Kanavi gives us the story of how it all began. 'Great Cloud. Please help me. I am away from my beloved and miss her......

Waiting In The Wings: The Creator Economy

...current industry models will soon fade out, notes Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com   "Sir, can I have a word with you," asked the man in security-guard uniform at......

Staring at an abyss

Do India's laws governing the Internet need revolutionary change, asks Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic Xavier/Rediff.com Some nights nowadays I wake with a nightmare, which is unusual for......

WWW inventor admits forward slashes 'a mistake'

Nearly two decades after he invented the world wide web, British scientist Sir Tim Berners -Lee has admitted that "forward slashes" in Internet addresses "were a mistake". Claiming the // at the......

The Web is 20 years old! What next?

Twenty years ago, a British computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, posted a short summary of a project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup, and also designed a crude website......

Donating online? Read the fine print

On Christmas Day, 1990, Tim Berners-Lee decided to make the world a gift. So the father of the WorldWideWeb made his idea freely available, with no patent and no royalties due. His gesture has......

Why India must create new programming languages...

"Yawn", "Zzzzz... excuse me, I need to nap." Why hasn't India produced a single earth-shaking idea like Python or the World Wide Web, asks Ajit Balakrishnan. Illustration: Dominic......