The World Wide Web beginning and early years

On August 6, 1991 Tim Berners-Lee, a computer scientist, wrote in a newsgroup: 

 The WWW Project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system…The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone…

This date is known as the birth of the World Wide Web.

The World Wide Web, WWW, or Web is a model that specifies how to share and access information over the Internet. The first steps to becoming the web a reality had taken place in 1980 when Tim Berners-Lee, a graduated in Physics from Queen’s College at Oxford University, started working as Independent Contractor at CERN(European Organization for Nuclear Research). During that time, projects’ information was stored and updated in different computers, and sharing information was difficult because of the differences in hardware, operating systems and software. To solve that issue and improve the way of organizing and sharing the information Berners-Lee built Enquire, an hypertext based software that allowed users create, edit and extract information. Enquire was the predecessor of Web.

RHoK Hackathon: Offering solutions for World problems

Random Hacks of Kindness, also know as RHoK, it's an initiative that aims to develop open source solutions for problems in risk management and climate changes. The RHoK collects these problems and helps to organize events in different cities providing the necesary resources to let software designers and developers work together in solutions.

The RHoK was founded by Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, Nasa and the World Bank. The first "Hackathon" was held in Mountain View, California in November 2009 and it was name "RHoK 0". "I'm Ok" and "Tweak the tweet" are examples of the applications created during this event. Both applications were used in Haiti and Chile earthquake response.

Linux's 20th Anniversary

On 1991, Linus Torvalds, a student at the University of Helsinki, got the idea of developing his own operating system. After he sent a message to a newsgroup explaining his idea and asking for some feedback, many developers joined him in the development of the code. So, what started as a hobby became one of the biggest colaboration projects in in the history of computing. The final product of this work was the Linux Kernel.

Two decades later, Linux Foundation is celebrating the 20th anniversary of this project. The foundation will hold events in diferent locations around the world:

• LinuxConnJapan
• LinuxConn will be held in Vancouber, Canada. Agust 17 - 19, 2011
• LinuxConn Europe will be held in Prague, Czech Republic. October 26 - 28, 2011 
• LinuxConn Brazil, to be held in Sao Paulo, Brazin. November 17 -18,  2011

Also, the anual T-Shirt design and video contests were opened. This year the topic was the "20th Anniversary of Linux". You can see the winner of the T-shirt design contest  here, and the winner of the video contest will be unveiled at the LinuxConn in Vancouver.