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Click to see a restoration of the VERY FIRST WEBSITE. Then imagine how websites will look 20 years from now.
- Tech Watch Column - Michigan Libraries (bi-monthly Newsletter)
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- Happy 90th Birthday Yoshiko Uchida!
Sunday, November 11 is the birthday of Japanese-American writer Yoshiko Uchida. Uchida grew up in California during World War II. Her family was forced to live in a Japanese internment camp for three years during the war. Her experience there inspired...
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- You Can Shape Your Life ? Take A Step.
So many times I hear students and teachers make reference to the ?REAL WORLD?. ?You?re going to need to know this when you get out in the real world.? ?I don?t need Shakespeare in the real world.? The ?real world? seems to be some time in the future when...
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Happy Birthday! The World Wide Web is 20 years old.
Click to see a restoration of the VERY FIRST WEBSITE. Then imagine how websites will look 20 years from now.It was 20 years ago on April 30, 1993 that the World Wide Web was opened to all, setting off one of the biggest transformations in technology and altering the way we communicate. To celebrate the occasion, the creator has brought the world's first website back to life.
By the end of 1993, there were more than 500 websites. By 2013, an estimated 630 million websites exist on the World Wide Web, according to CERN.
"The fact that they called their technology the World Wide Web hints at the fact that they knew they had something special, something big," CERN said in a blog post. From the LA Times
- Tech Watch Column - Michigan Libraries (bi-monthly Newsletter)
Tech Watch Column - Michigan Libraries (bi-monthly newsletter) The Michigan Library Association puts out a bi-monthly newsletter called, "Michigan Libraries". In it, there is a featured column called "Tech Watch", which highlights new and innovative technology...
- Cfp: 5th Workshop On Innovations In Scholarly Communication (oai5)
CFP: 5th Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication (OAI5) The OAI5 Organising Committee is welcoming poster submissions for the 5th Workshop on Innovations in Scholarly Communication at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland, which will take place from...
- Happy 90th Birthday Yoshiko Uchida!
Sunday, November 11 is the birthday of Japanese-American writer Yoshiko Uchida. Uchida grew up in California during World War II. Her family was forced to live in a Japanese internment camp for three years during the war. Her experience there inspired...
- Plaza Staff Rec: 'world's End'
Remember Y2K? That was the global fear that because of a programming error, the world's computers would become useless on January 1, 2000, sending civilization into chaos. Marc Chadbourn's novel World's End - originally published in 1999...
- You Can Shape Your Life ? Take A Step.
So many times I hear students and teachers make reference to the ?REAL WORLD?. ?You?re going to need to know this when you get out in the real world.? ?I don?t need Shakespeare in the real world.? The ?real world? seems to be some time in the future when...