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published on 04/08/05
College celebrates ten years of the Web
Now that the Internet has become both commonplace and crucial to college life, it’s difficult to remember a time without it. Ten years ago, The Miscellany News reported that Vassar had been officially connected to the World Wide Web, which enabled students for the first time to connect to outside Web pages and multimedia content. The article introduced students to the new wired world that would become essential to academics as well as extracurriculars only a decade later. The article, published April 7, 1995, explains how the Internet is to be accessed: “Using ‘browser’ programs, such as Netscape or Mosaic, one may look up information on a nearly infinite amount of subjects through the Web.”
Access to the web also enabled students to create their own web pages, and students buzzed with the idea of making their pages viewable to the rest of the world (something that could never before happen). Of course, the web grew in popularity rapidly throughout the 1990s. A 1996 MIT study on the Web found there to be 23,000 Web pages in 1995. Google, one of the most popular online search engines, now searches 8,058,044,651 web pages. We’ve come a long way!
—John Palmer, Features Editor
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