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<p>[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 4523308, member: 33"]Yes, a narrow date range. From the history of the World Wide Web in Wikipedia article: First, Tim Berners-Lee invented the original browser which was limited to use within CERN. Then "The browser was released outside CERN to other research institutions starting in January 1991, and then to the general public in August 1991." "CERN made the Web protocol and code available royalty free in 1993, enabling its widespread use. After the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Supercomputing_Applications" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Supercomputing_Applications" rel="nofollow">NCSA</a> released <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)" rel="nofollow">Mosaic</a> later that year, the Web became very popular with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_founded_before_1995" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_founded_before_1995" rel="nofollow">thousands of websites</a> springing up in less than a year." <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web</a></p><p><br /></p><p>From this one can guesstimate that the cap dates 1993-1994? If the company was out of business by 1995.</p><p><br /></p><p>I was working as a librarian at Northwestern University in Chicago starting in late 1989 until 1998. We were technologically cutting edge for the time. I still remember teaching business grad students what a URL was, and how to use it. Fun times![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Figtree3, post: 4523308, member: 33"]Yes, a narrow date range. From the history of the World Wide Web in Wikipedia article: First, Tim Berners-Lee invented the original browser which was limited to use within CERN. Then "The browser was released outside CERN to other research institutions starting in January 1991, and then to the general public in August 1991." "CERN made the Web protocol and code available royalty free in 1993, enabling its widespread use. After the [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Supercomputing_Applications']NCSA[/URL] released [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser)']Mosaic[/URL] later that year, the Web became very popular with [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_websites_founded_before_1995']thousands of websites[/URL] springing up in less than a year." [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web[/URL] From this one can guesstimate that the cap dates 1993-1994? If the company was out of business by 1995. I was working as a librarian at Northwestern University in Chicago starting in late 1989 until 1998. We were technologically cutting edge for the time. I still remember teaching business grad students what a URL was, and how to use it. Fun times![/QUOTE]
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