How the web went world wide By Mark Ward Technology Correspondent, BBC News website From its origins at the Cern lab the web has become a phenomenonIn a few short years the web has become so familiar that it is hard to think of life without it. Along with that familiarity with browsers and bookmarks goes a little knowledge about the web's history. Many users know that Sir Tim Berners-Lee developed the web at the Cern physics laboratory near Geneva . But few will know the details of the world wide web's growth - not least because the definitive history of how that happened has yet to be written. One key date is 6 August 1991 - the day on which links to the fledgling computer code for the www were put on the alt.hypertext discussion group so others could download it and play with it. On that day the web went world wide. PC turns 25 The Times of India Friday, August 11, 2006 (Reuters) It’s hard to imagine a world without computers - but it wasn’t long ago that it was only the privileged few who had one at home. Renae Bunney looks back on 25 years of computing at home. On August 12, 1981, IBM released its personal computer, the smallest and lowest priced IBM at the time. There were already PCs in the market - like the Apple 2 - but it was the IBM PC that set the industry standard, and quickly dominated the home computer market. But a quarter of a century is a long time in the land of computers - we've gone from information being stored on cassettes, floppy disks, harddrives, and now you can store data on phones, tiny memory sticks and even your personal music player. MTV's 25 years of non-stop hits Jackson's 14-minute Thriller video became an MTV landmark. MTV, the world's first 24-hour rolling music channel, celebrates its 25th birthday this week. These days, of course, MTV is less of a TV station than an international conglomerate, broadcasting to 1.3 billion people in 179 countries via 78 different channels. Its moves into original programming has led to such hits as Beavis and Butt-head, The Osbournes and Jackass, while its movie arm has produced Oscar-nominated titles like Murderball and Hustle and Flow. Launched on 1 August 1981, the fledgling TV channel captured the public imagination with pop videos "on demand", competitions and enthusiastic "VJs" (video jockeys) who became almost as famous as the stars they introduced. Groundbreaking moments in its early years included the world premiere of Michael Jackson's Thriller video, the Live Aid concerts in 1985 and the birth of the MTV Video Music Awards. MTV on its way to more experimentation NEW DELHI, August 7 It is a decade now since MTV was launched in India to cater to youth in the age group of 15-24 years. So much so that yesteryear’s viewers were called the MTV Generation. But in the last few years, the original set of viewers has moved on and new sets of 15-24 year olds have come; industry analysts say that today’s youth do not belong to the MTV generation. Anniversary Of Hiroshima Observances This Week Neil Relyea First posted: 8/6/2006 This week there will be local observances held in the Tri-state to reflect on the dropping of atomic bombs on two Japanese cities six decades ago. On August 6, 1945 the first atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima, Japan. Three days later a second atomic bomb was dropped on the city of Nagasaki. The mayor of Hiroshima is using the 61st anniversary of the world's first atomic bomb attack to call for the elimination of all nuclear weapons. A bell rang at 8:15 a.m., marking the time when the American B-29 bomber, Enola Gay, dropped the bomb on the city in 1945. The attack killed more than 140,000 people.
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