Webwereld

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Webwereld
File:Webwereld logo.svg
Available inDutch
Founded1995
Dissolved2020
FounderOscar Kneppers
ServicesIT news
ParentInternational Data Group
URLwebwereld.nl
CommercialYes
Current statusDefunct

Webwereld was a Dutch online newspaper about IT by the International Data Group. It was the oldest Dutch technology website until it was discontinued in 2020.[1]

History

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Webwereld was founded in 1995 by Oscar Kneppers, who got the idea after visiting Silicon Valley in the summer of that year.[1] Another Dutch tech website Tweakers.net was founded in 1998 after Femme Taken concluded that the moderation on Webwereld was too strict.[2]

In August 2011, Webwereld published about court documents in the Apple Inc. v. Samsung Electronics Co. lawsuit.[3] In October 2011, Webwereld started Lektober (portmanteau of leak and October in Dutch) where they publicized about a security bug every day of the month in a website of a well-known Dutch organization.[4] In 2011, Trans Link Systems considered suing Webwereld because they sold RFID writers that could be used for free traveling in Dutch public transport.[5]

Journalists

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References

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