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...text, graphics, video, anything--a "hypermedia" system--and that eventually the system could go global. "This initial document didn't go down well," says Berners-Lee. But he persisted and won the indulgence of his boss, who okayed the purchase of a NeXT computer. Sitting on Berners-Lee's desk, it would become the first Web content "server," the first node in this global brain. In collaboration with colleagues, Berners-Lee developed the three technical keystones of the Web: the language for encoding documents (HTML, hypertext markup language); the system for linking documents (HTTP, hypertext transfer protocol); and the www.whatever...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TIM BERNERS-LEE: THE MAN WHO INVENTED THE WEB | 5/19/1997 | See Source »

...things that are there [now] are often broken, and it would save a lot of time--you wouldn't have to go up to the desk," said Salvatore Gogliormella '98, calling the current lab "kind of like a dungeon...

Author: By Adam S. Hickey, | Title: Language Lab to Move to Lamont | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...their exercise, they become mine. Write what they look like: 15 young people in jeans, sweatshirts and sweaters, bodies hooked over a white sheet of paper, pursuing memories, dressing them up and watching to ascertain that their hands are following their instructions. The flower is laid aside on the desk, its work done. The students are off now like hounds. They follow the scent to funerals, weddings, proms. One girl will remember lying in the night grass under a blue moon with her little sister. Another will recall a last dance with a midshipman in Navy whites. A boy will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: STUDYING STUDENTS | 5/12/1997 | See Source »

...student passed his time napping, according to Joseph G. Cleemann '98 and Osvaldo E. Pereira '98, who were working behind the circulation desk that night...

Author: By George T. Hill, | Title: Hilles Library Elevator Mishap Traps Student | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

Pereira came to work at the circulation desk at 8 p.m., before the Payne technician arrived. He said he spoke to the Harvard technician, who was already there...

Author: By George T. Hill, | Title: Hilles Library Elevator Mishap Traps Student | 5/5/1997 | See Source »

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