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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 5:00 AM

15 Years of Modern Web Browsing

On April 22, 1993 the initial version of the Mosaic web browser was released. Mosaic was the first web browser that had broad adoption as well as the first web browser that supported images embedded together with the marked up text. Mosaic had been developed
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Tuesday, March 04, 2008 5:00 AM

20 Years of Content Types

An invention that now seems to be ubiquitous turns out to only be 20 years old. RFC 1049 introduced the notion of a standardized Content-type field that message processors could use to automatically identify the type of a structured message and interpret
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 5:00 AM

10 Years of XML and More Still Coming

Over the weekend XML 1.0 turned 10 years old from the day it was first accepted as a W3C recommendation. It started as a subset of SGML that allowed generic document content to be served and processed over HTTP. It's now used for everything, including
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