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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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1994 – The World-Wide Web Consortium (W3C) held its first meeting at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Albert Vezza and Tim Berners-Lee founded the group to development and maintain international standards for the World Wide Web. Since then, the W3C has overseen the validation efforts in HTML and other formats.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• Delta rolls out WiFi on flights
• Microsoft releases Windows NT 4.0 SP2
• Edward R. Murrow features the Whirlwind computer on See It Now

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2002 – Gary McKinnon has been in the news ever since his arrest. Back in 2002, he hacked into networks run by NASA, the Pentagon, along with other military bases around the US. He claims he was on a hunt to find evidence that the US has been covering up alien contact.

What makes this a tough case is that McKinnon lives in the UK. Since the arrest, he has been waging a war against being extradited to the United States. He has been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome – a form of Autism.

BTW – this is the largest military hack known to have been perpetrated by one individual.

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Other Historical Events in Technology

• The World Wide Web proposal is published by Tim Berners-Lee
• Intel introduces the 45nm Penryn chips
• On Computable Numbers with an Application to the Entscheidungs-problem – is published by Alan Turing

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