It is the awards show where techies are greeted like rock stars.
Rarely has there been a year when so many things went out of style in such a short time: not just investment bankers, gas-guzzling vehicles, corporate jets, conspicuous consumption and political polarization, but also a whole generation.
A question. What connects Facebook enthusiasts in China busy translating the social networking site into Mandarin and a community of orthopaedic surgeons swapping ideas on how to treat spinal injuries?
After taking one of the first Internet companies -- EarthWeb -- public in 1998, Nova Spivack joined some friends at a weedy airstrip deep inside the new Russia for a trip into Earth's stratosphere.
On August 6, 1991 Tim Berners-Lee posted the World Wide Web's first Web site. Fifteen years on there are estimated to be over 100 million.
Spark looks at the top 10 "Web moments" since the World Wide Web was born 15 years ago, and asks viewers to vote for the one they think had the most impact in the Web's history.
Since he invented it more than 15 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee has watched the Web change the way the world communicates, works and learns.
The world was different before the Internet.
Paul Saffo is a director at the Institute for the Future, a think tank whose clients include Nokia, Coca-Cola, and the U.S. Postal Service. He was interviewed by FORTUNE's Eric Nee.
Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the World Wide Web, thinks it stifles creativity. Jakob Nielsen, the reigning guru of Web usability, thinks it's a disgrace. Bill Gates wishes it would just go away ...
Nerd n. (1951): an unstylish, unattractive, or socially inept person.
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