Web Browsers and World Wide Web Anniversary
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Curl on Linux - Reference Guide
Curl is a powerful tool that is mainly used to transfer data. It has way more functions, but I won't be able to cover everything. This blog post is mainly a reference for later use and not a step-by-step guide. Therefore I won't cover everything in depth.
Most of it should work on other operating systems too, but I'll use Linux as reference. I'll keep this page up-to-date and add more topics in the future.
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No, APG’s Support Charts Are Not ‘Can I Use’ for ARIA
I have opinions on the ARIA Authoring Practices Guide (APG).
I am critical of it in my Uncanny A11y post. I have campaigned against its use of menus for navigation. And its preference for grids over tables, including ARIA layout grids. I was frowny when, after being demoted from a W3C Note, it rebranded itself during Global Accessibility Awareness Day as a pattern library, spewing 404s, dropping warnings, and failing WCAG. I regularly remind people it was only ever meant to experiment with ARIA patterns in an idealized context, independent of support or HTML-first principles.
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WWW Project Turns 30
History of the Web compares and contrasts the license-free web with another internet protocol at the time, Gopher: [...]
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The web’s most important decision
In February of 1993, the University of Minnesota made an announcement. In specific commercial usage of the protocol, they would be charging licensing fees. Not large fees, and not in all cases. But, in some small way, they would be restricting access.
Overnight, sentiment shifted. Internet users took to BBS boards and mailing lists to express outrage about Gopher’s decision. IBM declared that they wouldn’t support internally any protocol with restrictive licensing. The world began searching for alternatives.
Back at CERN, Berners-Lee had just the thing. He was already in early conversations with CERN about an open-source license for the platform. But after the Gopher announcement, he changed that request. He didn’t want any restrictions at all, no rights or attachments at all. The web needed to be free. Truly free.
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The World Wide Web turns 30
Too vague, apparently — and so at first, nothing happened. But Berners-Lee kept working on his idea. And slowly, the individual components of what would become the World Wide Web took shape: URLs for web addresses had to be created, HTML to describe the pages as well as the first web browser.
The result was revealed to the global public exactly 30 years ago: On April 30, 1993, the researchers at CERN launched the World Wide Web and it was the beginning of the stellar rise of the [Internet].
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30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world
"The web setting out as something which was universal, something which anybody could use, I felt was very important," he said. "It's no good having something which will run on any platform if, in fact, there is a proprietary hold on it."
Berners-Lee eventually convinced CERN to release the World Wide Web into the public domain without any patents or fees. He has since attributed the runaway success of the web to that single decision.