Internet speed is pretty fast nowadays, but it can always be faster. At least thats what researchers from Australia thought when they succeeded in getting an internet connection that reached 44.2 terabits per second. To put those numbers in a perspective that people understands a little better, it means they could download around 1,000 HD […]
29 years ago today, the first server “web server” in history is set up by Tim Berners-Lee on a NeXTcube at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory in Geneva, Switzerland. The launch of this first server is considered the public release of the World Wide Web.
April 4, 1994. Ironically, 19 years to the day after Microsoft was formed, Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark create the Mosaic Communications Corporation, which will later be renamed Netscape Communications Corporation. Andreessen had developed the Mosaic web browser while working at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois.
March 16, 1995 . The worlds first Wiki, WikiWikiWeb was created as Ward Cunningham invites people to add and edit content. A Wiki is a database that can be a community collaboration. Cunningham has said the inspiration for the name Wiki came from the Wiki Wiki Shuttle bus he learned of during a trip to Hawaii. Six years later, […]
35 years ago today, the first Internet domain symbolics.com is registered by Symbolics, a Massachusetts computer company. The rest is pretty much history.
