the most commonly used character encoding on the World Wide Web until December 2007, when it was surpassed by UTF-8.

* 1993 – CERN announces World Wide Web protocols will be free.

* 1991 – Tim Berners-Lee releases files describing his idea for the World Wide Web.

* WWW: World Wide Web Conference

Bulletin board systems were in many ways a precursor to the modern form of the World Wide Web, social network services and other aspects of the Internet.

According to the FidoNet Nodelist, BBSes reached their peak usage around 1996, which was the same period that the World Wide Web suddenly became mainstream.

Category: Pre – World Wide Web online services

The film is full of deliberate anachronisms, from the Count Basie Orchestra playing " April in Paris " in the Wild West, to Slim Pickens referring to the Wide World of Sports, to the German Heer of WWII.

* Web browser, used to access the World Wide Web

The World Wide Fund for Nature has stated that 361 animal and plant species have been discovered in Borneo since 1996.

The World Wide Fund for Nature divides the island into seven distinct ecoregions.

A team of biologists convened by the World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) developed an ecological land classification system that identified fourteen biomes, called major habitat types, and further divided the world's land area into 867 terrestrial ecoregions.

The Factbook has been on the World Wide Web since October 1994.

The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web ( WWW ) and the infrastructure to support email.

Category: World Wide Web Consortium standards

The World Wide Fund for Nature ( WWF ) divides the waters of the Columbia and its tributaries into three freshwater ecoregions, naming them: Columbia Glaciated, Columbia Unglaciated, and Upper Snake.

Retailers can now select from a large number of wholesalers with sites on the World Wide Web.

The earliest descriptions of a global communications network came long before the World Wide Web entered popular awareness, though not before traditional science-fiction writers such as Arthur C. Clarke and some social commentators such as James Burke began predicting that such networks would eventually form.

Leading up to the Conference of the Parties ( COP 11 ) meeting on biodiversity in Hyderabad, India 2012, preparations for a World Wide Views on Biodiversity has begun, involving old and new partners and building on the experiences from the World Wide Views on Global Warming.

It has a presence on the World Wide Web at www. cpan. org and is mirrored worldwide at more than 200 locations.

These include the World Wide Web Consortium's Resource Description Framework ( RDF ) as well as Platform for Internet Content Selection ( PICS ) labels used by Microsoft's Internet Explorer Content Advisor.

The term " Cyberspace " started to become a de facto synonym for the internet, and later the World Wide Web, during the 1990s, especially in academic circles and activist communities.

With the advent of the World Wide Web and other multimedia technologies, bands such as The Smashing Pumpkins ( with the album Machina / The Machines of God ), Coheed And Cambria ( with the Amory Wars as a backing story for every one of their albums ), and Nine Inch Nails ( with the album Year Zero ) exploited emergent cultural phenomena such as the alternate reality game to provide additional web-based content beyond that on the album itself.

This includes three of Engelbart's key papers, edited into book form by Yuri Rubinsky and Christina Engelbart to commemorate the presentation of the 1995 SoftQuad Web Award to Doug Engelbart at the World Wide Web conference in Boston in December 1995.

* 1997 – HTML 4. 0 is published by the World Wide Web Consortium.

:: The World Wide Web can be thought of as a database, albeit one spread across millions of independent computing systems.

The World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ), founded in 1994 to promote open standards for the World Wide Web, brought Netscape Communications and Microsoft together with other companies to develop a standard for browser scripting languages, called " ECMAScript.

The highly successful BattleTech line led to a series of video games, some of the first virtual reality gaming suites, called Virtual World ( created by a subdivision of the company known at the time of development as ESP, an acronym for " Extremely Secret Project ") and a Saturday-morning animated TV series.

They were particularly interested in virtual reality ( particularly the BattleTech Centers / Virtual World ) but also developed desktop computer games.

After the sale of Virtual World, Jordan turned his attention to the founding of a new games venture called WizKids.

In Wealth, Virtual Wealth and Debt Soddy praises Wells ’ s The World Set Free.

Many other titles contain in-game depictions of graffiti ( such as The Darkness, Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone, NetHack, Samurai Champloo: Sidetracked, The World Ends with You, The Warriors, Just Cause, Portal, various examples of Virtual Graffiti, etc .).

In 2006, Lara Croft was inducted into the Walk of Game and the Guinness Book of World Records has recognised her as the " Most Successful Human Virtual Game Heroine.

* NOAA's Virtual World Program

* World Wide Web Virtual Library — Belgian History Index

* Roger D. Smith: " Simulation: The Engine Behind the Virtual World ", eMatter, December, 1999.

* Virtual World Language Learning

During the period 1994-1995 Fujitsu and CompuServe co-developed WorldsAway, an interactive Virtual World which as of 2010 is still running and operating as VZones.

A medium exercise is conducted within a " Virtual World " and brings together several departments, teams or disciplines.

Gorillaz are cited by the Guinness Book of World Records as the Most Successful Virtual Band.

In 2001, the band's eponymous debut album sold over seven million copies, and featured hits such as the songs " 19-2000 " and " Clint Eastwood ," earning them an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records as the Most Successful Virtual Band.

VRML ( Virtual Reality Modeling Language, pronounced vermal or by its initials, originally — before 1995 — known as the Virtual Reality Markup Language ) is a standard file format for representing 3-dimensional ( 3D ) interactive vector graphics, designed particularly with the World Wide Web in mind.

The term VRML was coined by Dave Raggett in a paper called “ Extending WWW to support Platform Independent Virtual Reality ” submitted to the First World Wide Web Conference in 1994, and first discussed at the WWW94 VRML BOF established by Tim Berners-Lee, where Mark Pesce presented the Labyrinth demo he developed with Tony Parisi and Peter Kennard.

Many human-edited directories, including the Open Directory Project, Salehoo and World Wide Web Virtual Library, are edited by volunteers, who are often experts in particular categories.

* Virtual World Wiki

* Virtual Travel in the Little World of Guareschi

During an interview with Virtual World News, Alex Chapman of the British law firm Campbell Hooper stated: " Now we ’ ve spoken with the gambling commission, and they ’ ve said that MMOGs aren ’ t the reason for the, but they won ’ t say outright, and we ’ ve asked directly, that they won ’ t be covered.

* Virtual World Entertainment The maker of the full size BattleTech VR Simulator, BattleTech: Firestorm

Wario Land spawned seven popular sequels: Virtual Boy Wario Land, Wario Land II, Wario Land 3, Wario Land 4, Wario World, Wario: Master of Disguise, and Wario Land: The Shake Dimension.

SNK is now currently supporting Nintendo's Virtual Console service on the Wii in the US with Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting, and World Heroes.