Amaya Toman The Internet is currently an integral part of everyday life for the vast majority of people, but it wasn't always like that. In today's part of our "historical" series, we will remember the first meeting of the W3C consortium, but we will also talk about the start of the development of the ASCA program.
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Vratislav Holub ASCA Program (1952)
On December 14, 1952, the United States Navy sent an official letter to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The letter contained a notice of intent to begin development of the Airplane Stability and Control Analyzer (ASCA) program. The beginning of the development of this program was also the beginning of the Whirlwind project. Whirlwind was a computer built under the direction of Jay W. Forrester. It was the first computer of its kind that could reliably perform real-time calculations.
WWW Consortium Meets (1994)
On December 14, 1994, the World-Wide Web Conosortium (W3C) met for the first time. The proceedings took place on the grounds of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The W3C was founded by Tim Berners-Lee in the fall of 1994, and its task was initially to unify versions of the HTML language from different manufacturers and to establish the basic principles of new standards. In addition to the unification of HTML standards, the consortium was also involved in the development of the World Wide Web and ensuring its long-term growth. The consortium is managed by several institutions - MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics (ERCIM), Keio University and Beihang University.
