From shifting definitions of Pluto, to timeless Byzantine mosaics, from Ansel Adams photographs to music by Mozart — when you look something up on the Internet these days, chances are you'll be ...
Wiki Wiki bus at the Honolulu International Airport. Image Credit: Andrew Laing via Wikimedia Commons // CC BY-SA 2.0 On March 25, 1995, a computer programmer named Ward Cunningham premiered what he ...
1995: The collaborative internet takes a giant leap forward with WikiWikiWeb, the first site that actually invites people to hack it. User-generated content and open source reporting are now standards ...
At a time when America struggled -- often violently -- to sort out the competing claims of democracy and individual gain, Carnegie championed both. He saw himself as a hero of working people, yet he ...
Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s knowledge ecosystem. Last week, a British court sentenced Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, to 50 weeks in prison for ...