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4 April 2017 (): 2016 Turing Award "for inventing the World Wide Web, the first web browser, and the fundamental protocols and algorithms allowing the Web to scale" [42] 2022: Seoul Peace Prize for inventing the World Wide Web, supporting policies to address unequal Internet access, and aiming to decentralize user data with the Solid project.
The National Intelligence Board (NIB), formerly the National Foreign Intelligence Board and before that the United States Intelligence Board [1] is a body of senior U.S. Intelligence Community leaders currently led by the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). [2] The Board is tasked with reviewing and approving National Intelligence ...
Robert Cailliau (last name pronunciation: [kajo], born 26 January 1947) is a Belgian informatics engineer who proposed the first (pre-www) hypertext system for CERN in 1987 [1] and collaborated with Tim Berners-Lee on the World Wide Web (jointly winning the ACM Software System Award) from before it got its name.
The World Wide Web enabled the spread of information over the Internet through an easy-to-use and flexible format. It thus played an important role in popularising use of the Internet. [49] Although the two terms are sometimes conflated in popular use, World Wide Web is not synonymous with Internet. [50]
The World Wide Web began to enter everyday use in 1993, helping to grow the number of websites to 623 by the end of the year. [2] In 1994, websites for the general public became available. [ 3 ] By the end of 1994, the total number of websites was 2,278, including several notable websites and many precursors of today's most popular services.
The Nib was an American online daily comics publication focused on political cartoons, graphic journalism, essays and memoir about current affairs.Founded by cartoonist Matt Bors in September 2013, The Nib was an independent member-supported publisher [1] that ceased operating in September 2023.
Tim Berners-Lee: Inventor of the World Wide Web (Ferguson's Career Biographies), Melissa Stewart (Ferguson Publishing Company, 2001), ISBN 0-89434-367-X children's biography; How the Web was Born: The Story of the World Wide Web, Robert Cailliau, James Gillies, R. Cailliau (Oxford University Press, 2000), ISBN 0-19-286207-3
The World Wide Web (WWW or simply the Web) is an information system that enables content sharing over the Internet through user-friendly ways meant to appeal to users beyond IT specialists and hobbyists. [1] It allows documents and other web resources to be accessed over the Internet according to specific rules of the Hypertext Transfer ...