Sunday, May 18, 2014

17 May - History and Importance of The Day


World Telecommunication and Information Society Day

Norway National Day



1792 - Two dozen merchants and brokers established the New York Stock Exchange. In good weather they operated under a buttonwood tree on Wall Street. In bad weather they moved inside to a coffeehouse to conduct business.

1954 - In Brown v. Board of Education, the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously ruled that segregation of public schools "solely on the basis of race" denies black children "equal educational opportunity" even though "physical facilities and other 'tangible' factors may have been equal.

1991- Tim Berners-Lee set up HyperText Markup language (HTML) and Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) at CERN. He put the protocol on a computer. Thus first server got launched in the word wide web.





17 May Knowledge History - Science, Engineering and Management

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