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The World Wide Web
Of all the Big Ideas in computer networking, the invention of the
World Wide
Web (also called the WWW, or just the
Web) would have to be the biggest.
History:
- 1989
- original proposal from Tim Berners-Lee at CERN for a "Web" of linked documents.
Prototype followed soon after.
- December 1991
- First public demonstration.
- February 1993
- Mosaic (first
alpha version) released by NCSA. First fully
operational, multiplatform version released in September. Awareness
of WWW project growing.
- February 1994
- We (Division of IT) start running a Web server on machine ironbark. at
Bendigo (first regional institute in Australia to
do so, and in the first 10 nationally!) Rah, Rah!
- Early 1995
- Netscape Communications
releases Netscape
Navigator 1.1. The rest is, as they say, history.
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