Modern Era · Europe · Technology
1990
Hubble and first web server
May 1990
In the same season NASA deployed the Hubble Space Telescope and Tim Berners-Lee set up the first web server at CERN on a NeXT computer bearing a handwritten sticker: This machine is a server. Do not power it down! Two technologies that would define knowledge in the coming century had gone live within weeks of each other.
In context
Also in 1990 (5 other events on record)
- Mandela walks free · Africa · Politics
- German reunification · Europe · Politics
- Hubble Space Telescope launched · North America · Science
- Iraq invades Kuwait · Middle East · War
- Lithuania declares independence · Europe · Politics
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