In late April of 1968, a computer conference in Atlantic City, N.J., got off to a rocky start. A strike by telephone ...

South Africa hosts the Cape Town International Jazz Festival, one of the largest jazz festivals in Africa. Karl Bushby made a ...

Adam Hayes, Ph.D., CFA, is a financial writer with 15+ years Wall Street experience as a derivatives trader. Besides his extensive derivative trading expertise, Adam is an expert in economics and ...

The man who invented the World Wide Web recaps its spectacular growth and ponders its uncertain future in this knotty memoir-cum-manifesto. Berners-Lee (Weaving the Web) begins by revisiting his ...

A renowned Apple engineer who was instrumental in developing modern-day computing has died. Bill Atkinson, who was part of Apple's original Macintosh development team, died of pancreatic cancer at 74, ...

First network connection links The University of California Los Angeles and The Stanford Research Institute Arpanet was created by the US Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency Darpa.

Late in the new movie The Report, Adam Driver’s Dan Jones argues with his prospective defense attorney over who really said, “History is written by the victors.” The lawyer (played by Corey Stoll) ...

In the late 1990s, Google demolished the competition of other search engines because of an extraordinary innovation developed by Sergey Brin and Larry Page: the PageRank algorithm. While older search ...

In a few short years the web has become so familiar that it is hard to think of life without it. Along with that familiarity with browsers and bookmarks goes a little knowledge about the web's history ...

Hypertext is one of South Africa’s leading technology news and reviews sites. We publish original content daily for consumers and businesses. All original words & media by Hypertext by htxt.media are ...

People have been leaving public messages since the first artists painted hunting scenes on cave walls. But it was the invention of electricity that forever changed the way we talked to each other. In ...