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The Original Website

cvining — Wed, 24 Jul 2013 18:19:51 +0000

The Original Website cvining Wed, 07/24/2013 - 11:19

The very first website ever was created at CERN in 1989. Here is their official recreation of that original site:

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

and, for the record, a CNN article about the website

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/30/tech/web/first-website-cern

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English, Please

cvining — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 19:38:17 +0000

English, Please cvining Fri, 09/04/2009 - 12:38

A friend in Saskatchewan recently bought a computer and called me for help. "How do I change the language of this thing to English? Everything's in French on this new machine!"

Helpful as any tech support guy I reply without hesitation: "haven't a clue."

"Then why did I call you?"

After a bit of googling and some back and forth we determine several things.

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This is a test.

cvining — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 04:56:24 +0000

This is a test.

If this had been an actual emergency, we would have told you. Trust us.

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Dependable Drupal Hosting

cvining — Sun, 22 Jul 2007 12:17:05 +0000

Introduction

Time to summarize my quest for the perfect host for my various websites. None of my sites get particularly heavy traffic, but I manage some "community" services which place certain demands on the hosting company. A couple years ago I outgrew pair.com and I've not really found the pefect hosting company yet. This post is an attempt to summarize my experiences, mainly so I won't forget why I made the moves I did. Perhaps one or two other folks can also benefit from my experiences.

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Internet Growth

cvining — Wed, 29 Nov 2006 20:49:13 +0000

Internet Growth cvining Wed, 11/29/2006 - 12:49

In 1993 the number of internet users was a trivial percentage of the world population. Today there are over a billion users, nearly 17% of the world population[1], and some 440 million host computers on the internet [2].

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