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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 history of the Internet has its origin 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 ...
The first subdomain created for a non-English Wikipedia was deutsche.wikipedia.com (created on Friday 16 March 2001, 01:38 UTC), [47] followed after a few hours by catalan.wikipedia.com (at 13:07 UTC). [48] The Japanese Wikipedia, started as nihongo.wikipedia.com, was created around that period, [49] [50] and initially used only Romanized Japanese.
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]
Sanger originated the name "Wikipedia", chosen from "a long list of names", which he later said was "a silly name for what was at first a very silly project". [17] [33] Sanger created Wikipedia's first introductory pages and home pages, and invited the first few people to make contributions to the website, which was then called the Nupedia Wiki ...
The Internet (or internet) [a] is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) [b] to communicate between networks and devices. It is a network of networks that consists of private , public, academic, business, and government networks of local to global scope, linked by a broad array of ...
A Strategic Plan for Deploying an Internet X.500 Directory Service, RFC 1430, February 1993; Vinton Cerf & Bob Kahn, Al Gore and the Internet, 2000-09-28 [108] Vinton Cerf et al., Internet Radio Communication System July 9, 2002, U.S. Patent 6,418,138; Vinton Cerf et al., System for Distributed Task Execution June 3, 2003, U.S. Patent 6,574,628
The Main Page, known as HomePage from 15 January 2001 to 25 January 2002, [a] has been the dominant page on Wikipedia since its inception. The first page to be created, on any given day it is by far the most viewed page on the website, with more than 23 million daily views as of 2016. Viewing the history of the English Wikipedia's Main Page is ...