Now that Geek Pride Day is finally here, we celebrate the ultimate boffin who created the web experience that we know today. In 1989, Oxford University graduate and computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee created an internet-based hyper media initiative for global information sharing while at the CERN the European Particle Physics Laboratory – basically he built [...]

In 2004, a Harvard student created a website that would earn him more than $19bn and global fame. It wouldn’t be right to discuss Geek Week without a nod to the social geek. By the time Mark Zuckerberg started at Harvard University in 2002, he was already known as a ‘programming prodigy’. Now, less than [...]

In the latest post of our Geeks Who Changed the Internet series, we pay tribute to the man who opened the doors for Stuxnet. As a student at Cornell University in the 1980s, Robert Tappan-Morris created the first computer worm. This paved the way, not only for massively-disruptive and highly-specialised security threats like the Stuxnet [...]

In the second of UKFast’s Geek Week series of Geeks Who Changed the Internet, we pay homage to the chap who transformed the way we communicate and the man who was to become his nemesis. In 1971, Raymond Tomlinson invented something that would revolutionise the way the world communicates. At the time, he had no [...]

As this Friday is Geek Pride Day, all this week we are celebrating nerds, boffins and the geeks who changed the internet. In the first of our tributes to the geeks who changed the internet, we pay homage to the chap who created the ‘information age’: Jimmy Wales. You could say that Jimmy Wales is [...]

The introduction of cross-platform webpages with multimedia written into the code, in theory, eliminates the need for the ubiquitous Adobe plug-in. Back in 2010 Steve Jobs famously explained to the world why Apple won’t back Flash or support it on iOS devices. Jobs explained that HTML5 “let’s developers create advanced graphics, typography, animations and transitions [...]

This is a guest post from Garry Byrne, managing director of digital agency Reading Room Ltd, follow Garry on Twitter. With the ‘cookie law’ due to come into force proper in just a few weeks – the 26th May 2012 to be exact – web masters and owners around the country are still somewhat at [...]

As users demand more interactive experiences and web apps become the norm, HTML4 is no longer fit for purpose, but HTML5 is here to save the day. HTML5 is the latest version of the language that web pages are written in. HTML (hypertext mark up language) is a markup language, rather than a programming language, [...]

On June 6, World IPv6 Launch Day, some of the biggest sites on the internet – including Facebook, Google – permanently enable IPv6 – but what is it and how will it affect us? Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) is the next generation of the Internet Protocol that is currently in various stages of deployment [...]

As mentioned in the advanced notification, this month there are seven security bulletins addressing twenty three vulnerabilities: 3 Critical 4 Important This bulletin covers: 72 Microsoft operating systems / service pack combinations 31 Microsoft .NET installation versions and types 9 Microsoft Office installation versions and types 6 Microsoft Silverlight installation versions and types This month’s [...]