How we got from 1 to 162 million websites on the internet
According to the latest numbers, there are more than 162 million websites on the internet today. We have come a long way since the first baby steps of the World Wide Web. Back in January of 1996 we had...
View ArticleThe computer infrastructure behind the Large Hadron Collider
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider (LHC) will be producing roughly 15 petabytes of data each year (15,000,000,000,000,000 bytes). In other words, the LHC is not only huge in physical size (filling a 17-mile...
View ArticleWeb history – CERN open sourced World Wide Web today in 1993
We’ve noted many successful open source projects and products before on this blog, and the Web is arguably the biggest one of them all. Two such products we’ve failed to recognize, however, are the...
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