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Some historic fact, because we take it all too easy for granted: The World Wide Web was just developed in 1990 ! This took place at "CERN", the European Laboratory for Nuclear Research (www.cern.ch), which was founded in 1955 by The Federal Republic of Germany, Belgium, Denmark, France, Greece, Italy, Norway, The Netherlands, United Kingdom, Sweden, Switzerland and Yugoslavia. The original idea came from a young computer scientist, Tim Berners-Lee, who wrote first a memo, which soon became a proposal: "Information Management: A Proposal" by Tim Berners-Lee, CERN, March 1989, May 1990. http://www.w3.org/History.html "This proposal concerns the management of general information about accelerators and experiments at CERN. It discusses the problems of loss of information about complex evolving systems and derives a solution based on a distributed hypertext system." A document, which writes history. In other words, nuclear physics became way to complex in order to manage the flow of data in the laboratories. Just remember: NASA's moon landing would not have been possible without computers. This was the next step of the revolution. The internet is now managed by The World Wide Web Consortium, with its website (www.w3.org), one of the most important websites at all! The WWW Consortium, funded by a large number of corporate members, including AT&T, Adobe Systems, Inc., Microsoft Corporation and Sun Microsystems, Inc., promotes the growth of the Web by developing technical specifications and reference software made freely available to everyone. The Consortium is run by MIT with INRIA (The French National Institute for Research in Computer Science) acting as European host, in collaboration with CERN. In December 1990 development begins for first browser (called "WorldWideWeb"), editor, server, and line-mode browser. It culminates in first Web client-server communication over Internet in December 1990. The National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, was instrumental in the development of early graphical software utilizing the World Wide Web features created by CERN. NCSA focuses on improving the productivity of researchers by providing software for scientific modeling, analysis, and visualization. The World Wide Web was an obvious
way to fulfill that mission. NCSA Mosaic, one of the earliest
web browsers, was distributed free to the public and led directly
to the phenomenal growth of the World Wide Web. |
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 above: orginal image from the "Proposal" (http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html) |
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For all you folks, who are interested, we recommend for you to study the HISTORY OF THE INTERNET by accessing the following links: http://www.w3.org/History.html |
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