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By the end of 1992, there were ten websites. [1] The World Wide Web began to enter everyday use in 1993, helping to grow the number of websites to 130 by the end of the year. [ 2 ] In 1994, websites for the general public became available. [ 2 ]
In keeping with its origins at CERN, early adopters of the Web were primarily university-based scientific departments or physics laboratories such as SLAC and Fermilab. By January 1993 there were fifty web servers across the world. [52] By October 1993 there were over five hundred servers online, including some notable websites. [53]
The Web was invented by English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN. [9] ... Within the next two years, there were 50 websites created. [15] [16]
The history of the Internet originated in the efforts of scientists and engineers to build and interconnect computer networks.The Internet Protocol Suite, the set of rules used to communicate between networks and devices on the Internet, arose from research and development in the United States and involved international collaboration, particularly with researchers in the United Kingdom and France.
It was the first search engine that used hyperlinks to measure the quality of websites it was indexing, [27] predating the very similar algorithm patent filed by Google two years later in 1998. [28] Larry Page referenced Li's work as a citation in some of his U.S. patents for PageRank. [29] Li later used his Rankdex technology for the Baidu ...
Berners-Lee was born in London on 8 June 1955, [24] the son of mathematicians and computer scientists Mary Lee Woods (1924–2017) and Conway Berners-Lee (1921–2019). His parents were both from Birmingham and worked on the Ferranti Mark 1, the first commercially-built computer.
The linking of commercial networks and enterprises by the early 1990s, as well as the advent of the World Wide Web, [8] marked the beginning of the transition to the modern Internet, [9] and generated sustained exponential growth as generations of institutional, personal, and mobile computers were connected to the internetwork.
Decade Description 1970s–1980s The PLATO system (developed at the University of Illinois and subsequently commercially marketed by Control Data Corporation) offers early forms of social media with Notes, PLATO's message-forum application; TERM-talk, its instant-messaging feature; Talkomatic, perhaps the first online chat room; News Report, a crowd-sourced online newspaper, and blog; and ...