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In the News 3/12: Happy 25th Birthday, Internet!

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CERNtainly doesn’t look like that now …

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Pew Internet Project: World Wide Web Timeline

Since its founding in 1989, the World Wide Web has touched the lives of billions of people around the world and fundamentally changed how we connect with others, the nature of our work, how we discover and share news and new ideas, how we entertain ourselves and how communities form and function.

The timeline below is the beginning of an effort to capture both the major milestones and small moments that have shaped the Web since 1989. It is a living document that we will update with your contributions.

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CERN Project: The birth of the web

Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist at CERN, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automatic information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.

The first website at CERN – and in the world – was dedicated to the World Wide Web project itself and was hosted on Berners-Lee’s NeXT computer. The website described the basic features of the web; how to access other people’s documents and how to set up your own server. The NeXT machine – the original web server – is still at CERN. As part of the project to restore the first website, in 2013 CERN reinstated the world’s first website to its original address.

On 30 April 1993 CERN put the World Wide Web software in the public domain. CERN made the next release available with an open licence, as a more sure way to maximise its dissemination. Through these actions, making the software required to run a web server freely available, along with a basic browser and a library of code, the web was allowed to flourish.

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Poll Finds Christie’s Numbers Underwater For First Time

A Fairleigh Dickinson University PublicMind poll put the Republican governor’s statewide popularity at an all-time low — it has dropped 20 percentage points since November. Forty-one percent of voters surveyed said they approved of Christie’s job performance, compared to 44 percent who disapproved. According to the newspaper, this is the first time since Christie took office in 2010 that the poll shows Christie’s job approval underwater. The three-point difference, however, is within the poll’s 3.7 point margin of error. The poll surveyed 703 New Jersey voters between March 4 and March 9.

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Reports: GM Facing Criminal Inquiry Over Delayed Recall

General Motors may be facing a criminal investigation over its delay in recalling vehicles with faulty ignition switches blamed for 13 deaths and 31 accidents, and are reporting.

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Inside West Virginia’s Struggle To Break Its Coal Addiction

“People around here are so afraid of losing the coal industry because of the fictitious ‘war on coal’ that they will do anything to try to give coal an edge, or the industry an edge,” he said.

But the decline of coal in Central Appalachia is impossible to ignore, and while transitioning its focus away from the coal industry may be what West Virginia needs to do to survive, changing the economy and culture of a state long dependent on coal – with many of its leaders still loyal to the coal industry – has proven to be an uphill battle.

People around here are so afraid of losing the coal industry because of the fictitious ‘war on coal’ that they will do anything to try to give coal an edge.

“Simply put, we need to put a new economy in place,” said David Graham, who’s running for the West Virginia House of Delegates

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Feinstein: CIA Improperly Searched Computer Network Meant For Congress

WASHINGTON (AP) – The head of the Senate Intelligence Committee said Tuesday the CIA improperly searched a stand-alone computer network established for Congress in its investigation of allegations of CIA abuse in a Bush-era detention and interrogation program and the agency’s own inspector general has referred the matter to the Justice Department.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., said she had “grave concerns that the CIA’s search may well have violated the separation of powers principles embodied in the U.S. Constitution,” as she publicly aired an increasingly explosive dispute between Congress and the spy agency.

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Weather …

TheVane: Here’s Why Severe Storms Are Expected from Philly to Roanoke

A strong area of low pressure developing over the Ohio Valley tonight doesn’t only spell tribble for the winter fatigued from Chicago to Maine expecting as much as two feet of snow, but a powerful cold front encroaching on a warm, moist airmass over the Mid-Atlantic will help touch off a nasty line of thunderstorms that could be severe, including the potential for a weak tornado or two.

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Editor’s Note: Feel free to share other news stories in the comments.


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  2. princesspat

    A GOP Majority? These Republicans Could Run The Senate in 2015

    The cast of characters waiting in the wings to chair powerful Senate committees if Republicans win the majority this November would radically shift the direction of the chamber and probably make life miserable for the White House.

    It won’t be the majority leader’s choice. GOP committee members will vote on them, although sources say senators tend to negotiate and agree upon the assignments ahead of time. Based on seniority, conversations with Republican sources and the quirks of internal conference rules with regard to committees, here’s who is best positioned to chair the various panels.

    Warning! Clicking the link and seeing the photos might be deeply distressing. It is for me 🙁

  4. princesspat

    HealthCare.gov Traffic Up 40 Percent After Obama’s FunnyOrDie Interview

    Traffic to HealthCare.gov spiked 40 percent Tuesday from Monday after President Obama’s interview with actor Zach Galiafinakis debuted online, the Obama administration said.

    The Twitter account for HealthCare.gov said Wednesday morning that about 890,000 people visited the website Tuesday, a 40 percent increase from the day before. For reference, traffic in January and early February was generally fluctuating between 200,000 and 400,000 visitors per day, according to figures obtained by TPM.

  5. JanF

    What Would It Take To Destroy A Black Box?


    “It is extremely rare for a black box to be destroyed,” says [Scott Hamilton, director of Leeham Co., an aviation consulting company]. “Black boxes have traditionally outperformed their design.”

    Hamilton says he cannot think of a single case in which both devices have been damaged to the point to where there is no useful data.

    “It would take a concentrated fire beyond its design strength, or an impact so high that it would be beyond what it could withstand.”

    The question was raised about whether the boxes could send out beacons:

    The viability of that technology is very good,” aviation security consultant Chris Yeats. “Of course the big question is whether the airline industry that often bleats on out about the fact that it is constantly losing money hand over fist will want to invest in that technology.”

    I would think that it would be a good investment. The uncertainty raised by a completely missing airplane … with crew and passengers and possibly cargo … would seem worthwhile to avoid.

  6. rb137

    I’ve had email continuously since 1990. I guess I got in there early. It was pretty clunky back then, though. I remember seeing the first websites around 1992 or 1993. It was a little while before I could do anything that wasn’t just ASCII.

    Remember ASCII flowers?

    WWWW

     WWW

    –   W

    –   |  ^

    –   | /

    –   |/

    –   |

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    Happy Birthday, Internet!

  7. JG in MD

    We were pretty clunky in our office, not at all geeks or nerds, but we kinda hadda keep up with our partners. Never thought of myself as an Early Adopter.

    Come to think of it… it’s totally amazing that the Web spread so fast. Nobody had it, then everybody had it.

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