Category Archives: World Wide Web
The Web Goes Public, First Email From Space, Grace Murray Hopper and COBOL
August 1, 1967 The US Navy recalls Grace Murray Hopper to active duty. From 1967 to 1977, Hopper served as the director of the Navy Programming Languages Group in the Navy’s Office of Information Systems Planning and was promoted to … Continue reading
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Milestones in the History of Technology: Week of February 29, 2016
February 29, 1939 The klystron vacuum tube, the first significantly powerful source of radio waves in the microwave range, is set up at the Boston airport and a plane successfully blind-lands before a group of top military officials. The klystron, … Continue reading
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Milestones in the History of Technology: Week of January 11, 2016
January 11, 1994 The Superhighway Summit is held at UCLA’s Royce Hall. It was the “first public conference bringing together all of the major industry, government and academic leaders in the field [and] also began the national dialogue about the … Continue reading
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The Evolution of the Desktop (Video)
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The Internet is Coming to NPR
Source: “If We’d Only Known About The Impending Spam” HT: “Dawn of the Web: an oral history”
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The Web at 20 and at 25
25 years ago today (March 12, 1989), Tim Berners-Lee circulated a proposal for “Mesh” (later to be known as the World Wide Web) to his management at CERN. 45 years ago this year (October 29, 1969), the first ARPANET (later to be known as … Continue reading
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The Internet Geography Visualized
Source: deviantART HT: Gizmodo
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Wikipedia Launched
Today in 2001, Wikipedia was launched. Since its creation, Wikipedia has grown rapidly into one of the largest reference websites. As of November 2013, Wikipedia was ranked by comScore as the 8th most popular web destination in the U.S. with more than … Continue reading
Al Gore Gives Birth to the Internet
Today in 1994, The Superhighway Summit was held at UCLA’s Royce Hall. It was the “first public conference bringing together all of the major industry, government and academic leaders in the field [and] also began the national dialogue about the Information … Continue reading
The Story of Information 