Wikipedia:GLAM/Wikipedians in Special Residence/Hans Muller/Presentatie/IHS-internet

Internet and Wikipedia for collaboration

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• 1942-now: digital computer, first for weapon research, science and administration
  
  
• 1969-1981: computernet ARPA-net, internet Computer Science Network in the USA
  
  
• 1989-1991: World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee (Cern for particle physics, Geneva):
  • automatic exchange documents with hyperlinks via internet (url, html, http)
    
    
• 1994: free wiki software for collaboration by programmer Ward Cunningham
  
  
• 1995-now: commercialising the internet, cheap data storage, scalable data bases
  
  
• January 2001: free workable internet-encyclopedia www.wikipedia.com by Sanger and Wales

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  Jimmy Wales
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  Larry Sanger