TBL-NEXT
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Above:
Tim's original Next being serviced at Cern...and REPLICA of 1st Web Page (lost...)
Steve Jobs started NEXT
in 1985...
1988 25mhz 68030
8-64MB Unix based OS
Custom GUI
with Postscript Backend.
Tim Berners Lee wrote the WWW on this computer.
He invented HTML
and hypertext links,
and URL addresses,
The first Web Server,
and the first browser
on a NEXT computer
while he was working
for CERN.
(1991 launch)
He started it in 1989...
Cern rejected it...
He re-wrote it in 1990...
Cern accepted it...
Cern released it in 1991.
In 1991 the first Web Site appeared.
In 1992, Stanford rewrote Tim's
Software on an IBM mainframe.
This was the first American site.
In 1993, browsers appeared
for the PC and Mac.
Web site growth
1991 1 site
1992 10
1993 130
1994 2738
1995 23,500
1996 257,601
1997 1,117,255
1998 2,410,067
1999 3,177,453
2000 17,087,182
2001 29,254,370
2007 121,892,559
2016 1,045,534,808 sites
Linus Torvalds made his own
UNIX during his second year
at the University of Helsinki.
He put it on the internet Fall 91.
...
At that time I was working
with 2 multiuser DOS systems,
on several 16MB Inboard 386's...
doing tech support for
350 handheld computer users,
Surfing BBS systems ...
and starting my text Adventure.
I had written a linked list
Streaming file Editor in Pascal
in 1982...
On Hollerith Cards.
Chuck
[Beans Thurs, 4-25-2024 Time : 5:46p]
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