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Web 25 : histories from the first 25 years of the World Wide Web. New York, NY. ISBN 978-1-4331-3269-8. OCLC 976036138. {}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher ; Gillies, James; Cailliau, Robert (2000). How the Web was born : the story of the World Wide Web. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-286207-3. OCLC 43377073.
Year Name Chief developer, company Predecessor(s) 1980 Ada 80 (MIL-STD-1815) Jean Ichbiah at CII Honeywell Bull: ALGOL 68, Green 1980 C with classes: Bjarne Stroustrup [7] C, Simula 67 1980 Applesoft III: Apple Computer: Applesoft II BASIC 1980 Apple III Microsoft BASIC: Microsoft Microsoft BASIC 1980–81 CBASIC: Gordon Eubanks
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.
The World Wide Web began to enter everyday use in 1993, helping to grow the number of websites to 623 by the end of the year. [2] In 1994, websites for the general public became available. [3] By the end of 1994, the total number of websites was 2,278, including several notable websites and many precursors of today's most popular services. [1]
How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web, Robert Cailliau, James Gillies, R. Cailliau (Oxford University Press, 2000), ISBN 0-19-286207-3 Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web by Its Inventor , Tim Berners-Lee, Mark Fischetti (Paw Prints, 2008)
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.
The history of the Internet originated in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks.The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and devices on the Internet, arose from research and development in the United States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in the United Kingdom and France.
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