WWW
Building a Web site may involve getting over a hump or two, but take care those humps dont turn into a camel.
BY PAUL ROLICH
The World Wide Web has been around for about 10 years, but in that short time, it has become a ubiquitous, pervasive, and invasive part of our culture. OK, fineI know it really is a little older than that, but in 1993, WWW (Port 80 HTTP) traffic made up just 0.1 percent of NSF backbone traffic. Marc Andreessen and chums didnt form Mosaic Communications Corp. (later Netscape) until 1994. So, for my purposes, 10 years it shall be.
Every organization from Fortune 500 companies to the little pizza shop on the corner has a Web site. Immense wealth and major corporations have been built on Web technology. Economies have gone through boom and bust based on the use of one little communications protocol. If you dont have a major presence on the Web, you dont exist.
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