Posts Tagged ‘first web’

1991 – Sir Tim Berners-Lee showed everyone the first web browser and WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) HTML editor. The Browsers’ name was called “WorldWideWeb”, but was later changed to “Nexus”. Berners-Lee ran it on the NeXTSTEP platform and worked with not only the File Transfer Protocol (FTP), but the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP). Nexus is not in production anymore.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• 3Com announces they will acquire US Robotics
• Intel introduces the Pentium III
• Yahoo launches Buzz

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2006 – In February 2005, 3 former Paypal employees start a website that lets you upload and share your video. YouTube brought a new idea of putting your creations on the internet. However, it cost a lot of money to run. Therefore, Google stepped in. They purchased the site from the founders for $1.65 billion. Today marks the completion of this acquisition.

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Other Technology History Facts

• New York Times tears down their Walled Garden for Ad- supported content.
• Tim Bernes-Lee launches the first Web Page
• The first Make Money Fast scheme is uploaded to Usenet

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