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From the vault This day in tech history, November 12
- 1931
ILLIAC IV designer Daniel Slotnick is born
Slotnick went on to design the ILLIAC IV, a Defense Department and University of Illinois machine that split one job across 64 processing elements; when it first ran at NASA Ames in 1972 it reached 200 million instructions per second.
- 1990
Berners-Lee and Cailliau propose the WorldWideWeb at CERN
Their memo asked for four software engineers and a programmer to build a hypertext system over CERN's existing servers, in two three-month phases: first browsers for reading, then a way for users to add their own material.
Then and now
1990: Web servers: 1. Today: 14.8 million. By the end of 1990 the only Web server was Tim Berners-Lee's info.cern.ch on a NeXT at CERN; Netcraft's July 2026 survey counted 14,772,048 web-facing computers serving 1,494,915,628 sites.
