The international nature of the internet is one of the best things about it. You can visit web pages and find information from countries all across the world, but this also means it's likely you'll ...

Sometime in the 1960s, hypertext pioneer Ted Nelson envisioned deep linking to specific pieces of text as a core feature of his proposed Project Xanadu system. (My first exposure to Xanadu came in the ...

A hyperlink is an underlined piece of text that takes you to a website with just a click. Inserting hyperlinks is fairly simple, thanks to the web design tools now available. But it can also help to ...

Site developers help Web surfers view real-time information by writing code that makes browsers such as Firefox refresh. For example, an auction website might refresh Web pages every few seconds to ...

Round these parts, I frequently need to share Web pages with co-workers. Sometimes it's fine just to send a link, but occasionally it's critical to freeze a moment in time. Sending a link is dicey, ...

I started my writing career off over a decade ago at a site called DownloadSquad. We covered “Web 2.0” companies back when “Web 2.0 companies” was a term people used. I wrote a zillion posts for them, ...

Q. I’ve seen some useful Web pages disappear when sites shut down. What’s my best option to keep a copy of a page for future reference? A. The obvious answer is to use your browser’s own page-saving ...

Rick Broida is the author of numerous books and thousands of reviews, features and blog posts. He writes CNET's popular Cheapskate blog and co-hosts Protocol 1: A Travelers Podcast (about the TV show ...