Amaya Toman In today's installment of our regular series called Back to the Past, we will once again look at Apple. This time, it will be a commemoration of the MacWorld Expo conference from 1997, at which Apple concluded a rather unexpected, but nevertheless salutary partnership with Microsoft. But we will also remember the day when the World Wide Web became available to the public.
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Microsoft-Apple Alliance
August 6, 1997 was, among other things, the day of the MacWorld Expo conference. It's no secret that Apple really wasn't doing the best at the time, and help finally came from an unlikely source - Microsoft. At the aforementioned conference, Steve Jobs appeared together with Bill Gates to announce that the two companies were entering into a five-year alliance. At that time, Microsoft bought Apple shares worth 150 million dollars, the agreement also included mutual licensing of patents. Microsoft created a version of the Office package for Macs, and also loaded it with the Internet Explorer browser. The aforementioned financial injection from Microsoft eventually became one of the key factors that helped Apple get back on its feet.
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The World Wide Web Opens to the Public (1991)
On August 6, 1991, the World Wide Web became accessible to the public. Its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, presented the first rough foundations of the web as we know it today in 1989, but he worked on its concept even longer. The arrival of the first software prototype dates back to 1990, the lay public did not see the publication of the new Internet technology including all programs until August 1991.
Other events not only in the field of technology
- Viking 2 entered orbit around Mars (1976)
