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18 unusual facts about World Wide Web


American Memory

When the World Wide Web accelerated in 1993, the pilot program was refocused to deliver digitized materials by way of the internet.

Attack of the Killer App

Fry asks, "Since when is the internet about robbing people of their privacy?", to which Bender replies, "August 6th, 1991", which is the date that Tim Berners-Lee announced the World Wide Web project and software on the newsgroup alt.hypertext.

Biblioteca Virtual en Salud

In Latin America and the Caribbean, a Biblioteca Virtual en Salud (BVS, translation: Virtual Health Library) is an institution that employs the World Wide Web to "improve access to reliable, locally relevant information on health and health sciences for health-professionals, researchers, academics, educators, decision makers, and the general public".

Boy Who Never Slept

It is a comedy with some elements of romance, and is available for download by many means, (including the web and BitTorrent download).

Captology

This includes the design, research, and program analysis of interactive computing products (such as the Web, desktop software, specialized devices, etc.) created for the purpose of changing people's attitudes or behaviors.

Cessy

Tim Berners-Lee lived on Rue de la Mairie in Cessy when he invented the World Wide Web.

Content adaptation

Advances in the capabilities of small, mobile devices such as mobile phones (cell phones) and Personal Digital Assistants has led to an explosion in the number of types of device that can now access the Web.

DataPoint, Inc

The small computer sales company expanded into the internet service provider market in 1995, when the first commercial providers started to gain traction linking customers to the World Wide Web.

Infra Corporation

Infra Corporation is a division of EMC Corporation that produces infraEnterprise, which is a multi-tier web-based IT Service Management software tool.

Joshua David Stone

With the growing popularity of the World Wide Web, he also composed one of the more comprehensive websites on spirituality which has often been used as a point of reference on New Age topics.

Maxine Cassin

Despite failing health and artistic isolation, Cassin communicated with other poets, artists, and friends through the World Wide Web, usually through messages typed in all-capital letters.

MobLogic

All parties involved (CBS and the Wallstrip team) went into the deal with the idea of creating more short-form web video.

National Runaway Switchboard

NRS also maintains a Web site, www.1800RUNAWAY.org, which was significantly revamped in 2006 and which presents a wide range of information both on NRS and on runaway and homeless youth in general, including guidance for what families should do if a child is missing.

The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5

In an early piece on the World Wide Web, The Washington Post noted The Lurker's Guide as a "Star Trek" (sic) resource accessible through www.infi.net/cool.html.

The Plug-In Drug

Winn was even more hostile to the Internet and the World Wide Web than she had been to television itself twenty-five years before.

Virtual Case File

The software was originally intended to be deployed in mid-2004, and was originally intended to be little more than a web front-end to the existing ACS data.

Web performance optimization

Although attempts to improve download and display speeds have existed since the World Wide Web was invented in 1993, the field was not standardized, or given a name, until 2004, when web-performance expert Steve Souders began to describe it as "web performance optimization".

WWW2

World Wide Web, a system of interlinked, hypertext documents that runs over the Internet


Aragonese Wikipedia

The Aragonese Wikipedia (or Biquipedia) is the Aragonese language edition of the Web-based free-content encyclopedia Wikipedia.

Ashish Gulhati

His articles and columns in PCQuest and Dataquest magazines in 1993 and 1994 were among the first in the mainstream Indian computing press to inform thousands of readers about alternative operating systems, Unix, Linux, open-source software, Email, the Internet and the World Wide Web, years before Internet access was commercially available in India.

Battlestar Galactica: Razor Flashbacks

Battlestar Galactica: Razor Flashbacks is a collective title given to a series of seven "webisodes" (or "featurettes") released in late 2007 in lead up to the television movie Battlestar Galactica: Razor via the world wide web and weekly airing.

Bert is Evil

Being unaware of Sesame Street, Dhaka printer Mostafa Kamal had copied the collage from the World Wide Web, leaving the image of Bert in his collage.

Computational sociology

Electronic records such as email and instant message records, hyperlinks on the World Wide Web, mobile phone usage, and discussion on Usenet allow social scientists to directly observe and analyze social behavior at multiple points in time and multiple levels of analysis without the constraints of traditional empirical methods such as interviews, participant observation, or survey instruments.

Danny Yee

Starting in 1992 via email, in 1993 via Usenet, and especially with their subsequent publication on the World Wide Web, Yee's mostly self-published reviews are widely consulted by readers evaluating book titles.

David Chilton Phillips

In the House of Lords, he chaired the select committee on Science and Technology and he is credited with getting Parliament onto the World Wide Web.

Degree Confluence Project

The Degree Confluence Project is a World Wide Web-based all-volunteer project which aims to have people visit each of the integer degree intersections of latitude and longitude on Earth, posting photographs and a narrative of each visit online.

Distributed workforce

Using a shared software approach called SaaS, or software as a service, workers and teams can share files securely as well as access the company’s databases, file sharing, telecommunications/unified communications, Customer relationship management (CRM), video teleconferencing, human resources, IT service management, accounting, IT security, web analytics, web content management, e-mail, calendars and much more.

Enterprise social software

Carl Frappaolo and Dan Keldsen defined Enterprise 2.0 in a report written for Association for Information and Image Management (AIIM) as "a system of web-based technologies that provide rapid and agile collaboration, information sharing, emergence and integration capabilities in the extended enterprise".

Gregory Weir

Weir writes most of his games in a language called ActionScript 3 for the Flash platform, with the intent that they be played in a web browser.

Grendel's Cave

Grendel's Net conducted their development as an experiment in Classic ASP and Microsoft SQL 6.0 programming for the World Wide Web.

Long-tail traffic

Ethernet, WWW, SS7, TCP, FTP, TELNET and VBR video (digitised video of the type that is transmitted over ATM networks) traffic is self-similar.

Mobile Cloud Storage

In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee created the first page on the "World Wide Web" that began the opportunity for the so-called "utility" to be realized.

Nokia IPSO

Up to that point, JavaScript and frames had been avoided in order to facilitate the use of Lynx as a command line interface.

Quanta Plus

Quanta Plus, originally called Quanta, is a web Integrated development environment (IDE) for HTML, XHTML, CSS, XML, PHP and any other XML-based languages or scripting languages.

Ralph Nelson

He was the father of Project Xanadu (precursor and main inspiration of the World Wide Web's HTML format and HTTP protocol) inventor Ted Nelson (by his first wife, actress Celeste Holm), and, by his other marriage(s): Ralph, Peter, and Meredith Nelson.

Range voting

Range voting is common for things where there is no single winner: for instance on the Web, sites allow users to rate items such as movies (Internet Movie Database), comments, recipes, and many other things.

Referer spoofing

In HTTP networking, typically on the World Wide Web, referer spoofing (based on a canonised misspelling of "referrer") is the sending of incorrect referer information in an HTTP request in order to prevent a website from obtaining accurate data on the identity of the web page previously visited by the user.

ReserveAmerica

As of December, 2005, the reservation service offers centralized information for more than 57,000 campgrounds, cabins, parks and tours of national sites, historic homes and caves through a single Web-based portal at www.recreation.gov.

Rustle the Leaf

Because news of the publication spread via the World Wide Web, requests for the copies of the book came in from organizations and nations around the world—including requests from the National Army of Pakistan, the Canadian government, a leading luxury hotel chain based in Indonesia, NASA's Langley Research Center, and an EPA regional office, which asked to be supplied with books anonymously for fear of reprisals from the Bush Administration.

ScienceWorld

Weisstein is also the editor of MathWorld, one of the most well known sources of information on mathematics on the Web.

Shelly Palmer

expanded its staff and production facilities to include more work with music as well as programming and production for CD-ROM, the World Wide Web, Interactive Television and other digital media.

Shema Yisrael Torah Network

The Shema Yisrael Torah Network is a group of (mainly English) websites dedicated to spreading Jewish thought, halakha (Jewish law) and other material through the World Wide Web, email and written material.

Web for Schools

The initial inspiration came from Robert Cailliau, a Belgian computer scientist who developed together with Tim Berners-Lee the World Wide Web.

Wii U system software

The Wii U Menu may also be used to launch applications entirely beyond just gaming: the Miiverse social network which is integrated with all games and applications; the Internet Browser for the World Wide Web; play media through Netflix, Hulu, YouTube, Nintendo TVii, and more; download Wii U software and content through the Nintendo eShop; and receive official notifications from Nintendo.