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Southern Africa Gets Connected
While serving as executive director at SANGONeT, an Internet service provider and training institution for civil society, labour and community organizations, Anriette sterhuysen, with many others, helps establish email and Internet connectivity in Southern Africa. -
Van Jacobson Solves Internet Congestion
Van Jacobson develops algorithms for the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) that help solve the problem of congestion and are still used in over 90% of Internet hosts today. -
Tim Berners-Lee Creates WWW
At CERN, the European Physical Laboratory, Tim Berners-Lee creates the World Wide Web. Robert Cailliau is a key proponent of the project, and helps Berners-Lee author a proposal for funding. Later, Cailliau develops, along with Nicola Pellow, the first web browser for the Mac OS operating system. -
Linus Torvalds Creates Linux
Linus Torvalds creates Linux and becomes a leading supporter of Open Source software -
World Wide Web Opens to Public
The World Wide Web is made available to the public for the first time on the Internet.