Posts Tagged: world
WWW hits 20
Some of WWW’s memorable moments on its way to success.
In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee submitted a paper called “Information Management: a Proposal” to his supervisor Mike Sendall. This document, called “vague, but exciting” by Sendall, became the blueprint for the World Wide Web which launched the following year.
Internet becomes the 6th sense
Students at the MIT Media Lab have developed a super cool prototype of a computer system which can turn any surface into an interactive display screen. It can be coupled with Internet, to create a digital **6th sense**. Check this out.
Looking for Greener Pastures
Tens of thousands of Africans – men, women and children fleeing their homeland – attempt to make the perilous trip from their home countries to Europe every year, seeking refuge, asylum and economic opportunity. Some travel thousands of miles overland, being handed from smuggler to smuggler, ending up at one of many ports in northern Africa, to be packed into makeshift boats and make treacherous sea crossings to European soil, to places like Spain’s Canary Islands and tiny Malta where they hope to either sneak in unnoticed, or, if intercepted, be allowed to stay. Many do not survive the journey.
