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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.
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