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.

* 1974 – Philippe Petit performs a high wire act between the twin towers of the World Trade Center in the air.

* List of tenants in One World Trade Center

* List of tenants in Two World Trade Center

On September 11, 2001, 19 al-Qaeda Islamic extremists hijacked American Airlines Flight 11, United Airlines Flight 175, American Airlines Flight 77, and United Airlines Flight 93 and crashed them into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the southwestern side of the Pentagon building, and Stonycreek Township near Shanksville, Pennsylvania in a terrorist attack.

United Airlines Flight 93 crashed into a field as flight attendants and passengers — who had heard about the other three hijacked planes ramming into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon — fought hijackers who were likely flying to crash the plane either into the White House or the United States Capitol.

On September 11, 2001, Omari boarded American Airlines Flight 11 and assisted in the hijacking of the plane, which was crashed into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, as part of the coordinated attacks.

American 11 was hijacked 15 minutes after the flight departed by Omari and four other hijackers, which allowed trained pilot Mohamed Atta to crash the Boeing 767 into the North Tower of the World Trade Center as part of an attack that killed thousands of people.

* 2006 – Construction begins on the Freedom Tower for the new World Trade Center in New York City.

Its New York offices were on the 92nd and 98th – 105th floors of the South Tower of the World Trade Center at the time of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack.

On September 11, 2001, Nami boarded United 93 and assisted in the hijacking of the plane, which crashed into a field in rural Shanksville, Pennsylvania, after a passenger uprising, due to the passengers receiving information from their families of the 3 other hijacked planes that hit the World Trade Center and the Pentagon.

The land upon which it stands was created by land reclamation on the Hudson River using 1. 2 million cubic yards ( 917, 000 m < sup > 3 </ sup >) of soil and rocks excavated during the construction of the World Trade Center and certain other construction projects, as well as from sand dredged from New York Harbor off Staten Island.

The neighborhood, which is the site of the World Financial Center along with numerous housing, commercial and retail buildings, is named for adjacent Battery Park.

Immediately to the south lies the World Financial Center, a complex of several commercial buildings occupied by tenants including American Express, Dow Jones & Company, Merrill Lynch, Nomura Holdings, RBC Capital Markets, and Deloitte & Touche.

South of the World Financial Center lies the majority of Battery Park City's residential areas, in three sections: " Gateway Plaza ", a high-rise building complex ; the " Rector Place Residential Neighborhood " and the " Battery Place Residential Neighborhood ".

) Construction of residential buildings began north of the World Financial Center in the late 1990s and completion of the final lots scheduled to be completed by spring 2011.

Yacht harbor at North Cove, next to the World Financial Center

Landfill material from construction of the World Trade Center was used to add land.

Construction began on the first residential building in 1980, followed in 1981 with the start of construction on the World Financial Center.

Olympia and York, of Toronto, was named as the developer for the World Financial Center in 1981, who then hired Cesar Pelli as the lead architect.

By 1985, construction was completed and the World Financial Center saw its first tenants.

Current residential neighborhoods of Battery Park City are divided into a north and south section, separated by the World Financial Center Complex.

Upon return the air in the area was still filled with toxic smoke from the World Trade Center fires that persisted until January 2002.

More than half of the area's residents moved away permanently from the community after the adjacent World Trade Center towers collapsed and spread toxic dust, debris, and smoke.

The Winter Garden and other portions of the World Financial Center were severely damaged.

A future tunnel under West Street will provide access from Battery Park City to the World Trade Center Transportation Hub.