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An educational website featuring a collection of innovations by women in the fields of computer science and technology.

How this one small browser quirk turned into a tool used by countless people for decades.

Seamless. Consistent. High performance. High fidelity. These are a few of the many things the modern web can deliver. Check out https://thewebshowcase.withgoogle.com to see what the platform can do today. #TheWebCan

What happens to a country without land? As rising sea levels threaten to submerge their home, Tuvalu has made a radical plan for the survival of their nation.

The Big Three may effectively be down to a Big Two, and right quick.

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Navigating content overload — Curate to create

The seminal DIY catalogs, journals, and magazines printed by the techno-hippie Whole Earth publishing house are finally available online in digital form, all for free.

Updated stats about mobile internet usage, including devices, platforms and more.

Not many people remember this 2005 documentary featured early interviews with Paul Graham, Aaron Swartz, Alexis Ohanian, and Steve Huffman.

This chart shows the average cost of 1GB of mobile data in selected countries in 2022 (U.S. dollars).

Article explains what is CORS, popular among web developers CORS, what are the common problems and how to fix them.

HTTP does a pretty good job staying out of everyone's way. If you're reading this article, there's a solid chance it was delivered to you over HTTP. Even if you're reading this ...

Discover thousands of free online courses, audio books, movies, textbooks, eBooks, language lessons, and more.

Ever wondered how a QR code works? No, me neither but it's low-key fascinating. (Warning, there is some extremely nerdy shit here.👇 )

The favicon was a total experiment, the result of a bit of serendipity and luck.

In the ’90s, Microsoft created a cartoon paperclip that it quickly retired. Its developers never imagined the virtual assistant would become a cultural icon.

You have a few options. How much time you got?

When the iPhone was released, two apps rushed to market in a battle over geolocation that would come to be briefly known as the "location wars"

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Because titles are typically the first things users see in Google results, titles can have a large impact on click-through rates and the number of visits your site ultimately receives.

People are viewing multiple screens and toggling social platforms at lightning speed. And with so much scrolling, posting, swiping, tweeting, liking, sharing, downloading, snapping, it's critical to understand what the audience is doing every 60 seconds as we work to earn their attention in order to cultivate sustainable relevancy. Here is the 2021 updated version of “The Internet Minute” graph we have all come to love! (Click to Enlarge) So, with all of that happening ...

Unless you have skipped a lot of school, or work, or both – or you live in the USA – you have probably used an A4 sheet of paper before now. Have you ever wondered …

Do you know what web banners, internet search engines, or erotic websites looked like in the 1990s? Visit themed exhibitions from the history of web design.

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