infrastructure

computing-history

Tim Berners-Lee, the CERN, and the invention of the World Wide Web (1989)

This story marks one of the most important moments in the history of computing. Tim Berners-Lee's invention was so revolutionary that it spread across the globe within a few years, transforming how human civilization communicates and manages information through the use of hypertext. The creation of the World

infrastructure

Long Before the Internet: The Telegraph Submarine Cable Network (1850 - 1950)

Inventing the Telegraph I didn’t suspect—until recently—that submarine cables existed long before the Internet and fiber optics were invented. I had always assumed we waited until the invention of the telephone to start laying thousands of kilometers of copper cables across the ocean floor to transmit information