Knight Talks Tech

Research Activity 01

Find out more about the Osprey tracking.
http://scottishwildlifetrust.org.uk/things-to-do/osprey/
Two chicks tagged with satellite trackers in 2015. In 21015, one fly 7352km and the other 6812km. Interestingly, the tracked ospreys don’t always take the same route, some travel along the west coast of Britain, another down the east coast and one more centrally.
http://www.ospreys.org.uk/category/satellite-tracking/
The osprey tracked here travelled to Africa rather than stopping Spain like the Scottish birds.
http://www.osprey-watch.org/osprey/follow-osprey-migration-with-satellite-tracking-projects/
Not all Osprey migrate, some stay within their region but may move locally during breeding season.
Find out more about Tim Berners-Lee and the history of the web.
Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 while working at CERN. First web client and server were written in 1990. URI, HTTP and HTML specs written by Berns-Lee refined as Web technology spread.
Initially could only work on the NeXT (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT) computer. Nicola Pellow create a text browser to work on any computer.
Web browsers developed over the period of 1992 and 1995 aloowing grpahics, scripting and animation. Mosaic was also created which helped increase the popularity of the WWW.
The Dot-com boom and bust between 1999 and 2001 heralded a massive number of businesses attempting to take advantage of the WWW, many of which failed losing vast amounts of money.
2002 onward (Web 2.0) is when companies such as Google came to the fore-front. Facebook, YouTube became popular off the back of people user the Web for sharing and connecting with each other.
The World Wide Web was built on the system of connected computers started by ARPANET which was built in 1969 (http://www.whoishostingthis.com/resources/history-of-web/).
A more detailed of the history between 1945 and 1995 can be found here: https://www.w3.org/History.html

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