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Happy 30th birthday, World Wide Web!
May. 3rd, 2023 07:55 amSunday marked the 30th anniversary of CERN releasing the WWW to the public! (Now) Sir Tim Berners-Lee developed the concept of the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) to make it easier to share information within CERN among their scientists, running on a computer that Steve Jobs helped create after he was kicked out of Apple, The NeXT Step. It was an amazingly powerful computer and included an optical drive - not a CD - for storage!
The NeXT basically became the prototype for the later Mac operating systems when Jobs returned to Apple.
The Register article, though short, has some very good material in it.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/02/world_wide_web_30th_anniversary/
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/05/02/167232/cern-celebrates-30-years-since-releasing-the-web-to-the-public-domain
And just to be pedantic, the Internet and the World Wide Web are two different things! The internet is a communications network: the hardware and protocols for moving information between hosts (a host is any device that connects to the internet). WWW is the software, such as the web browser that you're using right now, that makes it a heck of a lot more easier for end users to benefit from it.
The NeXT basically became the prototype for the later Mac operating systems when Jobs returned to Apple.
The Register article, though short, has some very good material in it.
https://www.theregister.com/2023/05/02/world_wide_web_30th_anniversary/
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/05/02/167232/cern-celebrates-30-years-since-releasing-the-web-to-the-public-domain
And just to be pedantic, the Internet and the World Wide Web are two different things! The internet is a communications network: the hardware and protocols for moving information between hosts (a host is any device that connects to the internet). WWW is the software, such as the web browser that you're using right now, that makes it a heck of a lot more easier for end users to benefit from it.
