Open Web Technology and Content Policy

Boaz Sender

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The Open Web

"A network of such [computers], connected to one another by wide-band communication lines [which provide] the functions of present-day libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval and [other] symbiotic functions."

History of the web

• Feb 1958 Advanced Research Projects Agency created by DoD in response to Sputnik
• Oct 1969 1st ARPANET link established between UCLA & Stanford with a BBN IMP
• Mar 1970 ARPANET reaches the East Coast (at BBN)
• Dec 1974 The term "internet" is coined as a short hand for internetwork
• IDK 1984 First DNS implementation at UC Berkley
• IDK 1989 CERN get's their network on the internet
• Mar 1989 TBL invents the dub dub dub at CERN
• Jan 1990 TBL names the WWW

TBL's famous Screen Snap

• IDK 1991 TBL publishes HTTP 0.9 published
• Mar 1992 Viola released by a UC Berkley student

• Apr 1992 Erwise released by some University of Helsinki students

  

• Mar 1998 Netscape open sources it's browser (code name mozilla)
• May 1998 United States v. Microsoft antitrust case
• Nov 1998 KDE releases KHTML
• Nov 1998 AOL acquires Netscape
• Jun 1999 Apache forms
• Jan 2001 Wikipedia launches
• Jun 2001 Apple forks KHTML to work on Webkit
• Jan 2003 Apple releases Safari
• Jul 2003 Mozilla foundation formed
• Jun 2004 WHATWG desents from W3C
• Aug 2005 Mozilla corporation formed
• Jan 2007 Apple releases iPhone/iOS