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Weaving the Web : the original design and ultimate destiny of the World Wide Web by its inventor. San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco. ISBN 0-06-251586-1. OCLC 41238513. Brügger, Niels (2017). Web 25 : histories from the first 25 years of the World Wide Web. New York, NY. ISBN 978-1-4331-3269-8.
They made a significant contribution to the history of the World Wide Web. ... SLAC launched the first web server in North America on December 12, 1991. [8]
The Web was invented by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee while at CERN in 1989 and opened to the public in 1993. It was conceived as a "universal linked information system". [3] [4] [5] Documents and other media content are made available to the network through web servers and can be accessed by programs such as web browsers.
1999: America Online has over 18 million subscribers and is now the biggest internet provider in the country, with higher-than-expected earnings. It acquires MapQuest for $1.1 billion in December.
In 1993, Ashok Gadgil invented a lightweight, easy-to-use and economical device that used UV light to purify water. It could process four gallons per minute at a cost of 5 cents for every thousand ...
[20] [21] He received the 2016 Turing Award "for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale". [22] He was named in Time magazine's list of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th century and has received a number of other accolades for his invention. [23]
[13] [14] [15] However, the World Wide Web Wanderer is intended only to measure the size of the web rather than to facilitate search. September: 2: First web search engine: W3Catalog, written by Oscar Nierstrasz at the University of Geneva, is released to the world. It is the world's first web search engine.
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. [34] The “Web 1.0 era” ended in 2005, coinciding with the development of further advanced technologies during the start of the 21st century. [35] The first public digital HDTV broadcast was of the 1990 World Cup that June; it was played in 10 theaters in Spain and Italy. However, HDTV did ...