On Tuesday 6th August 2024, China launched its inaugural batch of internet satellites, which are expected to be part of a constellation designed to compete with SpaceX’s Starlink. The constellation, named “Thousand Sails,” comprises over 15,000 satellites in low-Earth orbit that are anticipated to provide worldwide internet coverage. China plansRead More →
The World Wide Web (WWW), the invention attributed to Tim Berners-Lee while working at CERN, was conceived on 12th March 1989. This makes the World Wide Web 35 years old today. It is important to recognise that the Web and the Internet are two different entities; the Web is a service that functions via theRead More →
The history of the internet is a fascinating story of how various computer networks around the world were interconnected to form a global system of communication and information exchange. Timeline in brief 1950’s The origins of the internet can be traced back to the 1950s, when the Cold War betweenRead More →