Domain time capsule: What the WorldWideWeb looked like in 1993
Twenty years ago, the WorldWideWeb was officially launched as a non-paid network of computers, interconnected via the hypertext protocol. What was the ‘WWW’ map like in 1993 – at an era when the sole browser was Mosaic? Believe it or not, TIME Magazine went digital that year, and while Yahoo did not exist yet, there […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.WWW: The free WorldWideWeb turned 20 today
Where were you on April 30th, 1993 – the day that it was announced the WorldWideWeb would be free? We were in the army boot camp, crawling through obstacle courses and tossing grenades from behind reinforced walls. It’s all good, we survived. Twenty years later, the Internet contains several billion pages, some of which are […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Happy 20th anniversary, WWW
The sole reason you are reading this right now is because twenty years ago today – on November 12, 1990 – the formal proposal for the creation of the World Wide Web was published. Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau proposed to build a “Hypertext project” called “WorldWideWeb” (one word, also spelled as “W3”): … as […]
Copyright © 2024 DomainGang.com · All Rights Reserved.Verisign to start charging for ‘www’ use in Domain Names
The WWW prefix – a relic from the early days of the ‘world wide web’ – is about to become more expensive to use. Citing skyrocketing operational costs, Verisign announced that it will not automatically enable the prefix for new domain registrations, unless the registrant explicitly requests it; for a fee of course. “We examined […]
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