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Cern re-creating first web page to revere early ideals

A team at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (Cern) has launched a project to re-create the first web page.
The aim is to preserve the original hardware and software associated with the birth of the web.
The world wide web was developed by Prof Sir Tim Berners-Lee while working at Cern. 
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The first web site built was at CERN, and was first put online on 6 August 1991

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Ship's anchor slows down East African web connection

East Africa's high-speed internet access has been severely disrupted after a ship dropped its anchor onto fibre-optic cables off Kenya's coast. The ship was waiting to enter Mombasa - one of Africa's busiest ports - when it anchored in a restricted area. It could take up to 14 days to repair, cable owners The East African Marine Systems (Teams) told the BBC. Read more



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Sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee, OM, KBE, FRS, FREng, FRSA (born 8 June 1955), also known as "TimBL", is a British physicist, computer scientist and MIT professor, credited for his invention of the World Wide Web (not the Internet), making the first proposal for it in March 1989.
The first web site built was at CERN, and was first put online on 6 August 1991.
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Campaigners are launching a bid to secure Scotland's own internet domain name.

The move by Dot Scot Registry follows a decision by a global internet body to allow the creation of new website domain suffixes.
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) plans to dramatically increase the number of domain endings from the current 22.
The Scottish government said it supported the bid for a .scot domain.
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More than 100,000 volunteers have promised to help a campaign to get more people on the internet.
Government digital champion Martha Lane Fox hopes they will "engage people with the joys of being on the internet".
It is part of the Race Online 2012 campaign which is trying to get millions more people using computers by the end of next year - 9m people in the UK have never used the internet.
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The first Internet domain name, Symbolics.com, was registered March 15, 1985.

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How the internet is changing language

'To Google' has become a universally understood verb and many countries are developing their own internet slang. But is the web changing language and is everyone up to speed?
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Will the Internet make us stupider?

Few observers, in 2000, would have foreseen Facebook being a ubiquitous presence on the Internet in 2010. Even fewer would have felt comfortable predicting whether some phenomenon like it would be "good" or "bad" for human interaction, or for society's use of the English (or any other) language, for that matter. Undaunted by the perils of prognostication, the Pew Research Centre's Internet and American Life Project recently asked nearly 900 tech-savvy professionals to "imagine the Internet" in 2020.
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Title: Information Management: A Proposal.
Authors: Tim Berners-Lee, CERN.

This proposal concerns the management of general information about accelerators and experiments at CERN. It discusses the problems of loss of information about complex evolving systems and derives a solution based on a distributed hypertext system.

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