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...Capping a series of computer network problems, the HUSC e-mail server crashes, irretrievably losing more than 3,000 e-mails. In February, computer worries continue as one-third of the 900 first-years in Expository Writing must re-section after the program malfunctions...
...that eventually the system could go global. "This initial document didn't go down well," says Berners-Lee. But he persisted and won the indulgence of his boss, who okayed the purchase of a NeXT computer. Sitting on Berners-Lee's desk, it would become the first Web content "server," the first node in this global brain. In collaboration with colleagues, Berners-Lee developed the three technical keystones of the Web: the language for encoding documents (HTML, hypertext markup language); the system for linking documents (HTTP, hypertext transfer protocol); and the www.whatever system for addressing documents (URL, universal resource locator...
Berners-Lee also wrote the first server software. And, contrary to the mythology surrounding Netscape, it was he, not Andreessen, who wrote the first "graphical user interface" Web browser. (Nor was Andreessen's browser the first to feature pictures; but it was the first to put pictures and text in the same window, a key innovation...
...planning for years, the lab's move will be accompanied by the digitizing of its most frequently used tapes so they can be run from a huge, 1,000-gigabyte server, improving sound quality and eliminating competition over what is now a limited number of tapes...
...survey results indicated that 10 percent of students and one-third of organizations had Web pages. But Lopez said the HCS server alone has nearly 200 organizations on its machine...