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12th November 1990: The World Wide Web formally proposed by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee

12th November 2021
Tagged as: Britain, CERN, Computer, Computing, Internet, Science, Technology, World Wide Web

Within five years the World Wide Web began to be adopted by people and companies that weren’t connected with science or academia, and it has seemingly been dominated by photographs of cats ever since.

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2nd November 1988: Release of the Morris Worm signalled the first major internet security attack

2nd November 2020
Tagged as: America, Computing, Internet, Science, Technology, United States, USA

By the time the attack was brought under control over the next few days, between 2,000 and 6,000 major systems had been affected.

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12th November 1990: World Wide Web first proposed

12th November 2018
Tagged as: Communication, Computing, Internet, Invention, Science, Technology

On the 12^th November 1990, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee published the first formal proposal for the World Wide Web.

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12th November 1990: The World Wide Web formally proposed by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee

2nd November 1988: Release of the Morris Worm signalled the first major internet security attack

12th November 1990: World Wide Web first proposed

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

23rd May 1915: Italy enters the First World War on the side of the Triple Entente and declares war on Austria-Hungary

22nd May 1849: Abraham Lincoln becomes the first and only President to be awarded a patent

21st May 1927 and 1932: Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic, followed five years later by Emilia Earhart as the first woman

20th May 1882: Establishment of the Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

8th July 1932: Dow Jones falls to lowest point in the Great Depression

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

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