The Web & Communication, GRO-INC
The development of the World Wide Web had a massive impact on the ways in which people interact and communicate, ultimately paving the way for the heavily interconnected world that we live in today. Although Internet communication dominates in many spheres of life, other means of communication remain no less important.
The Web & Communication Encyclopedia Articles By Title
Groupon, American e-commerce company that offers deep discounts, usually 50–90 percent, for popular products and......
Sir George Grove was an English writer on music famous for his multivolume Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Grove......
William John Gruffydd was a Welsh-language poet and scholar whose works represented first a rebellion against Victorian......
GTE Corporation, U.S. holding company for several U.S. and international telephone companies. It also manufactures......
Dmitrii Gulia was an Abkhazian writer, educator, and cultural pioneer, commonly considered the founder of Abkhazian......
Louis-Christophe-François Hachette was a French publisher who issued a wide range of textbooks, dictionaries, and......
Sayyid Shaykh bin Ahmad al-Hadi was a Malay Islamic writer and polemicist, journalist, and publisher who made significant......
Sarah Josepha Hale was an American writer who, as the first female editor of a magazine, shaped many of the attitudes......
Sir William Haley was the director general of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) from 1944 to 1952, editor......
halftone process, in printing, a technique of breaking up an image into a series of dots so as to reproduce the......
James Hall was an American author who was one of the earliest to write about the American frontier. Hall was a......
Hamish Hamilton was a British publisher who published works by some of the most renowned authors in Britain, the......
Sir Denis Hamilton was a British newspaper editor who led the postwar campaign for broader media coverage and more......
John Hays Hammond, Jr. was a U.S. inventor whose development of radio remote control served as the basis for modern......
Sean Hannity is an American television and radio personality, author, and conservative political commentator. Hannity......
Jens Andersen Hansen was a journalist and politician, a leading 19th-century champion of Denmark’s peasantry. A......
hard disk, magnetic storage medium for a computer. Hard disks are flat circular plates made of aluminum or glass......
Maximilian Felix Ernst Harden was a political journalist, a spokesman for extreme German nationalism before and......
hardware, computer machinery and equipment, including memory, cabling, power supply, peripheral devices, and circuit......
Saad al-Hariri is a Saudi-born Lebanese businessman and prime minister of Lebanon (2009–11; 2016–20). The son of......
Harper Brothers, printers and members of a distinguished American publishing firm which exerted a significant influence......
Benjamin Harris was an English bookseller and writer who was the first journalist in the British-American colonies.......
Frank Harris was an Irish-born American journalist and man of letters best known for his unreliable autobiography,......
Sir Robert Hart, 1st Baronet was an Anglo-Chinese statesman employed by the Qing dynasty (1644–1911/12) to direct......
Harvard Mark I, an early protocomputer, built during World War II in the United States. While Vannevar Bush was......
Paul Harvey was an American radio commentator and news columnist noted for his firm staccato delivery and his conservative......
Bogdan Petriceicu Hasdeu was a scholar and archivist who was a pioneer in Romanian language and historical studies.......
hash table, in computer science, a dictionary that maps keys to values using a hash function. A hash function is......
hashtag, metadata label prefaced by the hash symbol (#) and followed by a word or phrase devoid of spaces, special......
HDTV, a digital broadcasting standard that offers picture and audio superior to that of traditional standard-definition......
headphone, small loudspeaker (earphone) held over the ear by a band or wire worn on the head. Headphones are commonly......
William Randolph Hearst was an American newspaper publisher who built up the nation’s largest newspaper chain and......
Hugh Hefner was an American magazine publisher and entrepreneur who founded (1953) Playboy magazine. After serving......
Johan Ludvig Heiberg was a playwright, poet, literary historian, and critic whose romantic idealism in a sense......
Muhammad Hassanein Heikal was a leading Egyptian journalist who gained fame as the editor in chief (1957–74) of......
William Heinemann was an English publisher whose firm published outstanding contemporary fiction and drama, introduced......
William Ernest Henley was a British poet, critic, and editor who in his journals introduced the early work of many......
Joseph Henry was one of the first great American scientists after Benjamin Franklin. He aided and discovered several......
herbal, ancient manual facilitating the identification of plants for medicinal purposes. Hundreds of medicinal......
Bob Herbert is an American journalist and commentator who was a liberal op-ed columnist for The New York Times......
William Hewlett was an American engineer and businessman who cofounded the electronics and computer corporation......
Lars Johan Hierta was a journalist and politician who became a leading agitator for Swedish political and social......
When Austrian immigrant brothers Jean and Julian Aberbach formed their Hill and Range publishing company in 1945,......
Sir Rowland Hill was a British administrator and educator, originator of the penny postage system, principally......
Danny Hillis is an American pioneer of parallel processing computers and founder of Thinking Machines Corporation.......
Sir Francis Hincks was an Irish-born Canadian journalist and politician. He served as joint premier of the united......
Geoffrey Hinton is a British-Canadian cognitive psychologist and computer scientist known as the “godfather of......
histogram, graphical representation of a frequency distribution—the number of times each value occurs in a dataset—used......
John Henry Hobart was a U.S. educator, publisher, author, and bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church whose emphasis......
Oveta Culp Hobby was an American editor and publisher of the Houston Post (1952–53), the first director of the......
Ralph Hodgson was a poet noted for simple and mystical lyrics that express a love of nature and a concern for modern......
Herman Hollerith was an American inventor of a tabulating machine that was an important precursor of the electronic......
Holocaust museum, any of several educational institutions and research centres dedicated to preserving the experiences......
holography, means of creating a unique photographic image without the use of a lens. The photographic recording......
William Hone was an English radical journalist, bookseller, publisher, and satirist, notable for his attacks on......
Franklin Henry Hooper was the U.S. editor in chief of Encyclopædia Britannica from 1932 to 1938, and the brother......
Horace Everett Hooper was a U.S. publisher of Encyclopædia Britannica from 1897 until his death. He was a master......
Sir Thomas Hopkinson was a British editor and a leader in the development of photojournalism. Hopkinson was a freelance......
hornbook, form of children’s primer common in both England and America from the late 16th to the late 18th century.......
3D printing is a process that consists of layering two-dimensional cross-sections sequentially to build a three-dimensional......
Quantum computers work by exploiting the dual nature of matter: since matter, according to quantum mechanics, can......
You get that important call you’ve been waiting for, and you scramble for earphones in your bag. You groan as you......
With its flexible architecture and far reach, the Internet allows various computer networks to seamlessly connect......
Wi-Fi has become an integral part of our fast-paced everyday lives. Thanks to Wi-Fi, we no longer have to be tethered......
In an era of hacks, leaks, whistle-blowers, and media organizations that appear to have become information launderers......
Roy W. Howard was an American journalist and editor who was codirector of the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain from......
E.W. Howe was an American editor, novelist, and essayist known for his iconoclasm and pessimism. Howe went to work......
Joseph Howe was a Canadian statesman and newspaper publisher, premier of Nova Scotia in 1860–63, agitator for responsible,......
Julia Ward Howe was an American author and lecturer best known for her “Battle Hymn of the Republic.” Julia Ward......
William Dean Howells was a U.S. novelist and critic, the dean of late 19th-century American letters, the champion......
HTML, a formatting system for displaying material retrieved over the Internet. Each retrieval unit is known as......
HTTP, standard application-level protocol used for exchanging files on the World Wide Web. HTTP runs on top of......
HTTP 404, HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP) error indicating that an online resource could not be located. A 404......
Hu Shuli is a Chinese journalist and editor who cofounded Caijing (1998), the preeminent business magazine in China.......
Huawei is a Chinese multinational technology company headquartered in Shenzhen, China. Founded in 1987 by Ren Zhengfei,......
Elbert Hubbard was an American editor, publisher, and author of the moralistic essay “A Message to Garcia.” A freelance......
HuffPost, American liberal Web site that offers news and commentary. It was founded in May 2005 by political activist......
Hughes Electronics Corporation, American provider of wireless telecommunication services and formerly a leading......
David Hughes was an Anglo-American inventor of the carbon microphone, which was important to the development of......
John Hughes was the first Roman Catholic archbishop of New York, who became one of the foremost American Roman......
Sir Edward George Warris Hulton was a British publisher and creator (1938) of the Picture Post, a weekly magazine......
Hulu, Internet streaming service created in 2007 by NBCUniversal and News Corporation that allows users to stream......
human-machine interface, means by which humans and computers communicate with each other. The human-machine interface......
Leigh Hunt was an English essayist, critic, journalist, and poet, who was an editor of influential journals in......
Charlayne Hunter-Gault is an American newspaper reporter and broadcast journalist who covered current events, geopolitics,......
hydrological map, chart showing such hydrologic features as rivers and streams; the purpose and content of these......
hydrophone, device for converting sound waves into electrical signals, similar in operation to a microphone but......
hyperlink, a link between related pieces of information by electronic connections in order to allow a user easy......
Hypertalk, a computer programming language designed in 1985 as “programming for the rest of us” by American computer......
Viggo Hørup was a Danish politician and journalist, the leading late 19th-century advocate of parliamentary government......
IBM OS/2, operating system introduced in 1987 by IBM and Microsoft to operate the second-generation line of IBM......
IBM OS/360, operating system introduced by IBM in 1964 to operate its 360 family of mainframe computer systems.......
Mo Ibrahim is a Sudanese-born British entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded one of the largest mobile phone......
ICANN, nonprofit private organization incorporated in California on September 18, 1998, and tasked with taking......
ICQ, Internet instant messaging software popular in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. ICQ was created in......
Idei Nobuyuki is a Japanese business executive who served as chairman (2000–05) and CEO (1999–2005) of the Japanese......
illuminated manuscript, handwritten book that has been decorated with gold or silver, brilliant colours, or elaborate......
IMDb, Web site that provides information about millions of films and television programs as well as their cast......
incipit, the opening word or words of a medieval Western manuscript or early printed book. In the absence of a......
incunabula, books printed during the earliest period of typography—i.e., from the invention of the art of typographic......