The High Performance Computing and Communication Act is passed and Microsoft release final version on Internet Explorer 3.0. All on today’s On This Day from TEST Huddle.
1991 – Al Gore creates the Internet
In the United States, the High Performance Computing and Communication Act of 1991, drafted and introduced by Senator Al Gore, is enacted, becoming Public Law 102-194. This act was introduced as a Bill by Al Gore to make widespread internet access possible in the United States. The Act will enable the creation of a national high-speed fibre optic network, the National Information Infrastructure (NII). The Act will also fund the National Centre for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois. At this centre the Mosaic Web browser is created which will later be credited by most scholars as being responsible for starting the Internet boom of the nineties. Al Gore will later be parodied after he is mis-quoted in 1999 as saying that he created the Internet.
1996 – Final version of Internet Explorer 3.0
The final version of Internet Explorer 3.0 web browser for Windows 3.1 is released. The browser is the first to feature support for Cascading Styles Sheets (CSS). It’s also the first version of the Internet Explorer to include support for ActiveX controls, Java applets, inline multimedia, and the Platform for Internet Content Selection (PICS) system. These additional features prove popular and it is this version of INternet Explorer that will become the first version of the browser to gain widespread popularity.
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