The internet as we know it has profoundly changed all of our
lives, but many forget how young it is and how quickly it
evolved. The web, or "world wide web" turns 27 years old on
December 20. On that date in 1990, British engineer and
scientist Tim Berners-Lee, who once made a computer out of an
old television set, launched the world's first website, running
on a NeXT computer at the European Organization for Nuclear
Research (CERN) in Switzerland.
On 30 April 1993 CERN put the World Wide Web software in the
public domain. CERN made the next release available with an open
license, as a way to maximize its dissemination. Making the software required to run a web
server freely available, along with a basic browser, and a
library of code, the web quickly
flourished to
what it is today.
Incidentally, the web neutrality
act that was
overturned yesterday was just put in place during 2015.
Facebook, Google,
Twitter, YouTube, Netflix, Amazon, etc., grew and flourished
before the
government took over the web and the vote to keep the
government out of it will
not be the end of the world as some pundits will have us
believe. Evidence of
government control can be found in many other areas, such as
post office, student
loans, higher education, taxes, healthcare, banking, and
more. The internet
will not end because the government decided to not be in
charge of it.
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Dec 15, 2017
Jul 3, 2015
Five Internet Firsts
Symbolics Inc. registered the first
domain name, Symbolics.com, on March 15, 1985, before the real
internet was born. Symbolics Inc. grew out of MIT’s Artificial
Intelligence lab, and was the first company to make workstation
computers.
CERN launched very first website on August 6, 1991. It was a simple page, similar to a Word document with black lettering on a white background with blue hyperlinks. It briefly described project W3, better known now as the World Wide Web.
The first picture ever uploaded to the World Wide Web on July 18, 1992 was a picture of the all-girl comedy group Les Horrible Cernettes. The group was made up of administrative assistants and partners of researchers at The European Organization for Nuclear Research.
A little-known band called Severe Tire Damage, played live on the Internet for the first time on June 24, 1993.
YouTube was registered as a domain on February 14, 2005. On April 23, 2005, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim posted the first video called 'Me at the zoo'. The 19-second video features Karim standing in front of elephants at the San Diego Zoo, talking about his interest in “really, really, really long trunks.”
Incidentally, the Internet is what you connect to and the Web is how you view it.
CERN launched very first website on August 6, 1991. It was a simple page, similar to a Word document with black lettering on a white background with blue hyperlinks. It briefly described project W3, better known now as the World Wide Web.
The first picture ever uploaded to the World Wide Web on July 18, 1992 was a picture of the all-girl comedy group Les Horrible Cernettes. The group was made up of administrative assistants and partners of researchers at The European Organization for Nuclear Research.
A little-known band called Severe Tire Damage, played live on the Internet for the first time on June 24, 1993.
YouTube was registered as a domain on February 14, 2005. On April 23, 2005, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim posted the first video called 'Me at the zoo'. The 19-second video features Karim standing in front of elephants at the San Diego Zoo, talking about his interest in “really, really, really long trunks.”
Incidentally, the Internet is what you connect to and the Web is how you view it.
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