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TLA's 2
200
CDA
400
PPP
600
TBL
800
TCP
1000
Sun (as in Sun Microsystems)
Yes, There Are Other Browsers
200
Developed by a band of plucky Norwegians, this is "The Browser That Was Made For You!"
400
The World Wide Web Consortium's testbed browser.
600
Apple's ill-fated attempt to enter the browser market.
800
IBM's ill-fated attempt to enter the browser market.
1000
Oracle's ill-fated attempt to enter the browser market.
Web History
200
The computer for which the first Web browser was written.
400
The global event that occurred on February 8, 1996.
600
This site from O'Reilly may have been the first Web portal.
800
Where the first US Web Server was located.
1000
He developed the first WWW software with Tim Berners-Lee.
Before the Web
200
The document-linking technology proposed by Vannevar Bush in his landmark essay, "As We May Think"
400
This hypertext system was referred to in Wired magazine as "the longest-running vaporware story in the history
of the computer industry."
600
Invented by Charles Goldfarb, it separates content structure from presentation.
800
The author of HyperCard, the program the popularized hypertext.
1000
Designed by computer demigod Douglas Engelbart, the first hypertext system.
Follow the Money
200:
Tthis venture capital firm is known for its keiretsu, featuring such successful firms as Compaq, Intuit, Sun and
Netscape.
400:
Tthis noted venture capitalist used to date Bill Gates.
600:
This unusual investment bank was involved in a rather tacky spam marketing scheme with one of its investors, Wired
Digital.
800:
The formerly "revolutionary" company that took out full page ads in the Wall Street Journal offering
to buy websites.
1000:
This venture capital firm's investment portfolio includes the following firms: AvantGo, Vicinity, When.com and
Career Builder.
Open Source
Here, I had the audience submit questions. Unfortunately, I don't have them. Oops.
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