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Essay On World Wide Web

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Sir Tim Berners Lee is the computer scientist who created what people know as the World Wide Web. After graduating from Oxford University, Berners-Lee became a software engineer at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, near Geneva, Switzerland. Here, Berners-Lee noticed that scientists were having trouble sharing information. Berners-Lee once stated, “In those days, there was different information on different computers, but you had to log on to different computers to get at it. Also sometimes you had to learn a different program on each computer. Often it was just easier to go and ask people when they were having coffee…”.

In the late 1980s, millions of computers were already connected by developing …show more content…

Founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak created Apple Computer on April 1, 1976, and incorporated the company on January 3, 1977, in Cupertino, California.
Wozniak built each computer by hand, and although he'd wanted to sell them for little more than the cost of the parts - at a price at that would recoup their outlay as long as they shipped 50 units - Jobs had a larger view. jobs inked a deal with the Byte Shop in Mountain View to supply it with 50 computers at $500 each. After the store took its cut, the Apple I sold for $666.66. the legend is that Wozniak liked repeating numbers and was unaware of the 'number of the beast' connection.
On October 5, 2011, Steve Jobs died, marking the end of an era for Apple. The first major product announcement by Apple following Jobs's passing was iBooks Textbooks for iOS and iBook Author for Mac OS X. In jobs’ autobiography, he stated that he wanted to reinvent education and the textbook industry.
Today, Apple is the world's largest information technology company by revenue and the world's third-largest mobile phone manufacturer after Samsung and Huawei. In February 2015, Apple became the first U.S. company to be valued at over $700 billion US. Apple's most recent release was on November 3, 2017, the ten year anniversary of Apple, with the iPhone X. With iPhone X, the device is the display with an all-new 5.8 inch super

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