Here, the Observer's Net specialist charts the web's remarkable early life and we tell the story of the 15 most influential websites to date.

The hacker group Cult of the Dead Cow has created Offensive Computing, a malware repository site, inviting security researchers and others to upload infectious software of all description, and maintaining a database that any new piece of badware can be co

Scientists at a Canadian university have created the first 'wet' semiconductor device capable of outperforming conventional silicon chips, by 'painting' it onto glass.

The utter stupidity of this is staggering. AOL has released very private data about its users without their permission. While the AOL username has been changed to a random ID number, the abilitiy to analyze all searches by a single user will often lead pe

Computer scientists from Bath and Boston have developed electronic artwork that changes to match the mood of the person who is looking at it.