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 collection contains about one thousand examples and are divided into seven rooms called Masks of the World, Mexico across History, The Huichols and the Jaguar, Alebrijes and Dances of Guerrero, Devils and Death, Identity and Fantasy, and Afro-Indian masks.

The group maintains two inventories of " Heritage pubs ", the National Inventory ( NI ), which contains only those pubs that have been maintained in their original condition ( or have been modified very little ) for at least 30 years, but usually since at least World War II.

( Exception: the first book, Around the World in 80 Days, contains some pictures by Pao but most are by other photographers.

* Philip José Farmer's World of Tiers series ( 1965 – 1993 ) contains a nostalgic and ironic reminder of the Barsoom stories.

The clinical literature contains reports of many paraphilias, only some of which receive their own entries in the diagnostic taxonomies of the American Psychiatric Association or the World Health Organization.

The Kukkiwon has its own unique physical building that contains the administrative offices of Kukkiwon ( World Taekwondo Headquarters ) in Seoul, South Korea and is the system of taekwondo.

W. H. Auden's poem, " September 1, 1939 ", written at the start of World War II, contains these lines:

The Panorama Museum sited on the Volga contains artifacts from World War II.

The Warcraft universe contains several similarly named " World Trees " on the world of Azeroth: Nordrassil, Teldrassil and Vordrassil.

World Showcase contains pavilions representing eleven countries — click on the links below for more information about each.

The film contains adaptations of " The Veldt ", " The Long Rain ", " The Last Night of the World " and expands the prologue and epilogue with intermittent scenes and flashbacks of how the illustrations came to be.

The Eye of the World is protected by Someshta ( the Green Man ) and contains one of the seven seals on the Dark One's prison, the Dragon banner of Lews Therin Telamon and the Horn of Valere.

After World War II, the state of Hesse was established ( see Greater Hesse ), and Wiesbaden became its capital, though nearby Frankfurt am Main is much larger and contains many Hessian government offices.

The Silk Stocking National Historic District, located between Broadway and Seawall Boulevard and bounded by Ave. K, 23rd St., Ave. P, and 26th St., contains a collection of historic homes constructed from the Civil War through World War II.

* the Gondwana Rainforests of Australia World Heritage Area contains rhyolite-restricted flora along the Great Dividing Range

This article contains information from the CIA World Factbook 2009.

In not a few instances the New World Translation contains passages which must be considered as ' theological translations.

It is a area dedicated to international hockey, including World and Olympic competition and contains profiles on all IIHF member Countries.

Their most recent commercial I Love the World, created by the 72andSunny agency, contains amended verses and the refrain from the traditional campfire song " I Love The Mountains ".

The 194 metre long structure contains twenty rooms with relics and photographs related to World War II and one room dedicated to World War I.

The historic center of Bukhara, which contains numerous mosques and madrassas, has been listed by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.

Central Greenwich Town contains a UNESCO World Heritage Site centred on Christopher Wren's Royal Naval College and the Old Royal Observatory.

The church cemetery contains the graves of over 100 soldiers of the First Australian Imperial Force who died at No. 1 Australian Auxiliary Hospital ( Harefield Park Hospital ) after being wounded in World War I.