Kardashev index
0.708
Based on primary energy power · Type I = 1
AccelerationFour-dimensional view35 years agoThe Internet
1991-08-06
The World Wide Web Goes Public
Berners-Lee publicly releases the World Wide Web project.
Art style · 1990s CRT pixel art
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5.45Bpeople
1/2 of today
1.2×10¹³W
1/2 of today
2290.7floating-point operations per second per dollar (FLOP/s per $, nominal dollars)
1/35.49M of today
0.03 seconds
1 times faster than today
39,897km/h
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Rumelhart, Hinton and Williams publish a method for training multilayer networks in Nature. Source
Orbiting above the atmosphere, the telescope delivers sharp images of deep space and measures the expansion rate of the universe. Source
Sony introduces the commercial lithium-ion battery, giving phones, laptops and electric cars a lightweight power source. Source
Berners-Lee publicly releases the World Wide Web project. Source
Torvalds announces his kernel project, which becomes the open-source foundation of servers and Android. Source
China gains full-function access to the global internet via a 64K leased line. Source
The first mammal cloned from an adult somatic cell is born. Source
Long short-term memory networks let recurrent neural networks remember much longer sequences. Source
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