Happy 20th Birthday the First Website

Today is the 20th day of world wide web. Today 20 years ago the first website was published. So, it’s not the birthday of internet which was born in 1974.

David Murphy of PC Mag has a good piece explaining this discrepancies:

Here’s the deal: The Internet is neither 20, nor is it actually synonymous with what’s being celebrated today. That’s the World Wide Web. The first use of the word Internet came some fifteen years and change prior to the launch of the first actual Web page, and it was coined in December of 1974 as a way to describe a global system of computers connected via the TCP protocol.

The Internet is the technological underpinning that makes the World Wide Web possible. It’s the system of local area networks, regional networks, and other separate networks that are all interwoven such that computer A can connect up to computer B (or smartphone C) to facilitate an exchange of information.

The Web, in contrast, is analogous to a handshake – just one method a person can use to interact with another person in some capacity. Berners-Lee didn’t connect up all the computers in the world in 1991. Rather, he developed three different technologies that made it possible for users to better find and share information among these connected systems.

Top Domain Creator approves new domain names

ICANN, the organisation that create top domain extension such as .com, .net, .org, etc are in the process of making a revolutionary change by going to give anyone to decide which extension one wants to create. In short, you may create www.yourname.youchoice. Is it that far? Bizjournals has more

ICANN or the International Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers has approved a resolution that will open up the allowed suffix that follows the traditional “dot” to just about anything any company can come up with.

There are currently about two dozen approved top-level domains, or TLD’s, like .com, .org and .net, as well as dozens of country-specific suffixes. The new resolution will approve just about any word in any language to end a Website address, like .microsoft, .hotel or .virginia.

“Today’s decision will usher in a new Internet age,” said Peter Dengate Thrush, chairman of ICANN’s board of directors. “We have provided a platform for the next generation of creativity and inspiration.”

ICANN says it will begin a global marketing campaign to publicize the new opportunities and begin accepting registrations on Jan. 12.

Approval for .xxx Pornographic Domain

ICANN Approves .XXX Domain. A domain which will specifically contains adult pornographic contents

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has given the .XXX top-level domain (TLD) its final seal of approval. The TLD is meant to give pornographic websites a clearly marked home on the Internet, but it has gone through so many ups and downs over the last 11 years that it’s almost a shock that it has finally gone through. Still, the measure didn’t pass without opposition—nine ICANN board members voted in favor of .XXX, while three opposed and four abstained—and the vote went against the recommendation of ICANN’s Government Advisory Committee.

The addition of the new .XXX domain was strongly protested by the adult entertainment industry Thursday. Diane Duke, the executive director of the Free Speech Coalition, which represents the adult industry, said that the FSC would encourage the industry to boycott the new domains.

Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic Tools

Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic Tools

To check if your website or blog contains malware (malicious software), spyware or other viruses, you can check it through Google Safe Browsing Diagnostic Tools

1. Visit http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=
2. Put your URL at the end. Example http://www.google.com/safebrowsing/diagnostic?site=blog-indonesia.com
3. The result will tell you if a site/blog is safe or not.

A malware-infected website is a reason for Google to de-index or ban it.