The Internet

08/05/2025

In the early 1990s, German engineer Karlheinz Brandenburg led a revolutionary breakthrough at the Fraunhofer Institute: compressing audio without sacrificing quality. His team leveraged psychoacoustics—how humans perceive sound—to strip away frequencies we can’t hear, making digital music files 10x smaller while sounding nearly identical to the original.

Their invention, the MP3 format (MPEG-1 Audio Layer III), changed everything. Suddenly, thousands of songs could fit in your pocket, sparking the rise of portable MP3 players, iTunes, and the iPod. What began as a coding challenge ignited a global shift in how we create, share, and experience music.

11/07/2022

The origin of the word "patch" in computer engineering

06/11/2019

Browse the first website.

06/11/2019

Browse the first website using the line-mode browser simulator.

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.

06/11/2019

The World Wide Web was invented by British scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989 while working at CERN.

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.

05/22/2019

This computer, infested with multiple infamous viruses, is a piece of art. Bidding starts at $1,000,000.

"The Persistence Of Chaos" is the most dangerous art piece. This laptop, turned art, is filled with some of the worst malware known to man, and has caused over $90 billion worth of damage.

05/19/2019

All about me...

Online interactive HTML Cheat Sheet contains useful code examples and web developer tools, markup generators and more.

04/25/2019

ICYMI 🧐

We will lowercase internet effective June 1, when the 2016 Stylebook launches. Also, we will lowercase web in all instances – web page, the web, web browser – June 1.