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WWW founder-fathers: Tim Berners-Lee (left), Robert Cailliau, and Ted Nelson after the Advisory Committee meeting of the WWW Consortium, in Tokyo.


When dotcom-based stockmarket collapsed ...

larry

... it looks like Internet was not timely informed what happened. Internet traffic grew more than 100% in 2001 from 48 PB/month to 100 PB/month and
this growth continues in 2002.


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We have spent a tremendous amount of time over the last four or five years really crafting our external e-business initiatives, - IBM e-commerce director Scott Gannon The key words that came to my mind while writing (and DOING) this (WWW) history were: synergy,serendipity and
coincidence. Ben Segal, CERN
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Andy Grove (right photo) summed up the online pioneers' attitude when asked about the return on investment (ROI) from his firm's Internet ventures: "This is Columbus in the New World...
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... What was his ROI?"  by Christopher Anderson

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... If you think you're living in a revolutionary period now, wait till you start getting unsolicited e-mail from the Bolsheviks or Mao, or find yourself on Catherine the Great's home page...    World Wide Web will sound like an awfully modest enterprise.  You laugh?
   Go ahead. They laughed at Galileo. Not to mention the Internet. Philadelphia Inquirer.
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Don Hoefler journalist is credited with coining the phrase: "Silicon Valley" In 1971, in a series of articles that Hoefler wrote for ELECTRONIC NEWS, a weekly tabloid, he first used the phrase "SiliconValley" to describe the congeries of electronics firms mushroomingin Santa Clara county...
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See a viewpoint of the founder of worldwide #1 fiber optics high speed networking company: A Tale of Lambs, Preschoolers and Networking, by Frank Levinson, Finisar CEO
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 The First building of Silicon Valley:   Varian Associates building (photo left),    Stanford Industrial Park, Palo Alto, California, 1953.

 Silicon Valley is explosively expanding its geographical borders.  It was only a small part of Palo-Alto 's Stanford University Park 50 years ago. It has become one of the fastest growing regions of California now.

 And there will not be any geographical borders for Silicon Valley's future, because it's transforming itself to Internet Valley, which is destroying any geographical limits for the new kind of human being...
 

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