# The Cassette Tape: Origin of the Playlist Before Spotify queues and Apple Music playlists, there was the mixtape—a cassette recorded by hand, one song…
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NCSA Mosaic was the first popular graphical web browser, released in January 1993 by Marc Andreessen and Eric Bina at the University of Illinois. Mosaic…
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Perl was a high-level programming language created by Larry Wall in 1987 that became known as the "glue language of the internet" for its powerful…