Happy Belated Birthday...

...to the World Wide Web!

There are, as this BBC article suggests, a number of different ways to determine the proper birth date for the Web, but April 30, 1993, might be the most appropriate:

That's the day that Cern [the European laboratory in Geneva where it was invented] put the web in the public domain, thereby ensuring that the world would have a single system for accessing the Internet, instead of a Microsoft Web, a Macintosh Web and who knows, perhaps even an Amstrad Web.

So hurray for Cern, happy 15th birthday to our beloved World Wide Web, and renewed congratulations to its primary inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee.

In a separate BBC article, Berners-Lee says the Web is "still in its infancy." Looking ahead, he predicts that the future Web will put "all the data in the world" at the fingertips of every user.

We're getting there, many thanks to Sir Tim and his colleagues at W3C.

 

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[Jeylan]

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