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Bookmarks are called favorites or Internet shortcuts in Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge, and by virtue of that browser's large market share, these terms have been synonymous with bookmark since the First Browser War. [1] Bookmarks are normally accessed through a menu in the user's web browser, and folders are
Fabric bookmark with Bedouin embroidery, Lakiya, Israel A metal bookmark with a fabric tassel and decorative beads A bookmark is a thin marking tool, commonly made of card , leather , or fabric , used to keep track of a reader's progress in a book and allow the reader to easily return to where the previous reading session ended.
Another early browser, Silversmith, was created by John Bottoms in 1986. [23] [24] The browser, based on SGML tags, [25] used a tag set from the Electronic Document Project of the AAP with minor modifications and was sold to a number of early adopters. [26] [27] [28] At the time SGML was used exclusively for the formatting of printed documents.
They made up the majority of the first computer programmers during World War II; they held positions of responsibility and influence in the early computer industry; and they were employed in numbers that, while a small minority of the total, compared favorably with women's representation in many other areas of science and engineering.
The first prototype of a computer mouse, as designed by Bill English from Engelbart's sketches [1]. Early dynamic information devices such as radar displays, where input devices were used for direct control of computer-created data, set the basis for later improvements of graphical interfaces. [2]
Google Bookmarks was an online bookmarking service from Google, launched on October 10, 2005. [1] It was an early cloud-based service that allowed users to bookmark webpages and add labels or notes. [2] The service never became widely adopted by Google users. [3]
In 1980, Tim Berners-Lee created ENQUIRE, an early hypertext database system somewhat like a wiki. The early 1980s also saw a number of experimental hypertext and hypermedia programs, many of whose features and terminology were later integrated into the Web. Guide was the first significant hypertext system for personal computers.
Many consider it to be the first personal computer, despite the big dimension of some elements, e.g. the memory rack. [15] 1962: US Spacewar!, an early and highly influential computer game, is written by MIT student Steve Russell. The game ran on a DEC PDP-1. Competing players fired at each other's space ships using an early version of a ...