The Internet has evolved unstoppable since its origins and has become an essential tool for many people around the world — more than 5,500 million individuals use it regularly. It has not only accelerated communications worldwide, but has also enabled new forms of social interaction. Here are some interesting statistics and facts about the evolution
On April 30th, 1993, the World Wide Web (WWW) became of public domain. CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, published a statement that made it available to everyone with an open license. The WWW was invented by Tim Berners-Lee in 1989. At that time, there were other information systems competing with the web project,
The European data center hubs continue to grow and expand. Although the FLAP market continues to be one of the biggest data center markets in Western Europe, other markets have also been growing considerably during recent years. Since investments are particularly strong in emerging data center markets, such as Madrid and Lisbon. FLAP market The
The exhaustion of IPv4 addresses has been a concern for more than a decade. IPv4 addresses are 32-bit and provide 4,294,967,296 unique addresses. Such a number of IP addresses has become insufficient for the current number of worldwide devices connected to the Internet. However, IPv4 is still the Internet Protocol that routes most of the
The OSI model, short for Open Systems Interconnection model, is a 7-layer model that describes an architecture of data communications in computer networking. The OSI reference model was developed in the late 1970s. However, due to its late invention, it was not implemented and has only remained as a reference model. The current model implemented
We have collected some of the most popular database management systems (DBMS) nowadays. Let’s start by defining what a database management system is. What is a database management system? A database management system (DBMS) is a software used to define, manipulate, retrieve, store and manage data in databases. To sum up, database management systems are
DevOps and DevSecOps are work methodologies that aim to release better software, faster. They focus on the collaboration between software development and IT operations departments to increase agility in development and deployment processes. These methodologies are based on the Agile methodology to speed up processes across departments. These new approaches to software development are based
Cloud computing is more than a trend nowadays. It has become part of our daily lives, both among businesses and individuals. This guide about cloud computing aims to cover the most important aspects of this IT services distribution model. As well as some trends that are closely related to its evolution. Chapter 1: What is
Symbolics.com is the first registered .com domain name on the Internet; it is to say, the oldest .com domain. It was registered by Symbolics, Inc., an American computer manufacturer, back on March 15, 1985. Decades later, in August 2009, it was acquired by XF.com Investments (now napkin.com). First 100 registered .com domains The first 100
Inodes in Linux are unique identifiers that describe files and directories within a filesystem. It is important to keep an eye on them to avoid issues related to inode shortage or excessive usage. What is an inode? An inode is a data structure that keeps track of all the files and directories within a Linux
