Total number of words: 15420 Number of images: 13 Reading time: 15 minutesIntroductionIBM, Microsoft, and other industry pioneers of the open source computer era laid the foundation of computer hardware with their technology and influence. The World Wide Web protocol in 1990 allowed networks around the world to be interconnected, and since then people have officially entered the Internet era, and centralization has helped billions of people join the Internet and create a stable, robust infras...