Saturday, October 15, 2011

[did you know?] The First Internet

The internet's invention is credited to Tim Berners Lee. Sorry, it's not Al Gore. But did you know that the first web server was hosted on a NeXT computer - i.e. a machine whose design and production has Steve Jobs responsible for. NeXT computers were basically one of the first high-end workstation computers, i.e. a capable but easily accessible server (whereas previously you probably had to look to IBM for large systems of those kinds of things). The computer also used the NeXTSTEP "object-oriented" computer operating system that became the foundation of later Apple products, i.e. Mac OS X and eventually iOS and any OS that are derivatives of such. Just another one of the simple impacts of the man in black (turtleneck).

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