By UA/AU. From a final report of the publications committee regarding “a World Wide Web site for AUCC” (now Universities Canada, publisher of University Affairs) dated Jan. 10, 1996, almost exactly 20 years ago. More...

Sir Tim Berners-Lee is a British computer scientist. He was born in London, and his parents were early computer scientists, working on one of the earliest computers.
Growing up, Sir Tim was interested in trains and had a model railway in his bedroom. He recalls:
“I made some electronic gadgets to control the trains. Then I ended up getting more interested in electronics than trains. Later on, when I was in college I made a computer out of an old television set.”
After graduating from Oxford University, Berners-Lee became a software engineer at CERN, the large particle physics laboratory near Geneva, Switzerland. Scientists come from all over the world to use its accelerators, but Sir Tim noticed that they were having difficulty sharing information.
“In those days, there was different information on different computers, but you had to log on to different computers to get at it. Also, sometimes you had to learn a different program on each computer. Often it was just easier to go and ask people when they were having coffee…”, Tim says.
Tim thought he saw a way to solve this problem – one that he could see could also have much broader applications. Already, millions of computers were being connected together through the fast-developing Internet and Berners-Lee realised they could share information by exploiting an emerging technology called hypertext.
In March 1989, Tim laid out his vision for what would become the Web in a document called “Information Management: A Proposal”. Believe it or not, Tim’s initial proposal was not immediately accepted. In fact, his boss at the time, Mike Sendall, noted the words “Vague but exciting” on the cover. The Web was never an official CERN project, but Mike managed to give Tim time to work on it in September 1990. He began work using a NeXT computer, one of Steve Jobs’ early products. More...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 25 years of the web
Dave Winer, Scripting News, 2015/12/21

True for learning technology as well: "The people we celebrate as heroes of tech are the ones who made the most money, and that money is directly proportional to the amount of diversity they destroyed. More...

Le 4 janvier 2016 à 10h00, les sites internet des DIRECCTE du Nord - Pas-de-Calais et de Picardie vont laisser la place à un site internet unique concernant la DIRECCTE Nord - Pas-de-Calais Picardie.
Ce nouveau site aura pour adresse : http://www.nord-pas-de-calais-picar... (ouverture le 4 janvier 2016 à 10h00).
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eTerritoire centralise toutes les annonces d'emploi, de reprise d'entreprise ou de locaux disponibles partout en France. Voir l'article...