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1981 – The IBM VM Machine, first list server

The first LISTSERV was hosted on an IBM Virtual Machine mainframe over BITNET. LISTSERV enabled group email collaboration, and spurred the first list spams, flame wars and online trolling

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published daily at 8.00am EST. For Jan 30th, here are the highlights:

• Mint, a financial web application, shows how online statistics and aggregated data can have invaluable insight about the offline economy. 
• A video of Mark Zuckerberg presenting Facebook’s technology infrastructure (on memcache)
• Found: For programmers and developers, a complete List of Algorithms, on wikipedia

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published daily at 8.00am EST. For Jan 29th, here are the highlights:

• ComScore has released a list of fastest growing sites and top advertising magnets.
• Adobe AIR has reached 100 million installs
• Google has launched measurement lab, a set of tools for net neutrality
• GMail has now an offline functionality. A MacWorld reviews states it’s “almost like the real thing“

I am doing a last heads-up for those who have missed the current promotion on bandwidth, for iWeb’s 50Gbps network. At the time I’m writing this post, there is only 3 days and 16 hours left before the end of the event:

To celebrate the event and invite you to the “party”, iWeb is launching exceptional promotions, available for a short time only:

Click on the image or here to view deals.

For information, you can get for instance:

• a free Unmetered 10Mbps port, which usually costs $100 per month at iWeb or other web hosting providers, 
• or a 50Mbps Unmetered 10Mbps port at $50 per month, instead of the normal price of $850 per month

The iWeb Tech News Highlights covers web hosting, web development, web design and general technology news and is published daily at 8.00am EST. For Jan 27th, here are the highlights:

• Internet Explorer 8 Release Candidate is now available
• Adobe opens Flash stream video protocol, keeps DRM a secret 
• DiveIntoPython3, a reference explaing the differences between Python3 and Python 2
• The Internet doesn’t give a damn about recession, a cool post from Royal Pingdom