Happy 20th Birthday to the World Wide Web!!!

[Natalka]

Happy Birthday WWW!!!

Twenty years ago, on August 6, 1991, the world wide web became publically available! Its creator, Tim Berners-Lee, posted a short summary of the project on a placeholder page.
With support from Robert Cailliau, a systems engineer, Berners-Lee succeeded in converting a NeXT computer as the first web server, hypermedia browser and web editor.

The background - The World Wide Web has its foundation in work that Berners-Lee did in the 1980s at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research. He had been looking for a way for physicists to share information around the world without all using the same types of hardware and software. This culminated in his 1989 paper proposing ‘A large hypertext database with typed links’.


First posting:

The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system.
The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone. It aims to allow information sharing within internationally dispersed teams, and the dissemination of information by support groups.

He explained how to download the browser.
He uploaded the first image in 1992.

In 1993, it was announced by CERN that the World Wide Web was free for everyone to use and develop, with no fees payable – a key factor in the transformational impact it would soon have on the world.

More on the history, and where the web is going next - great article:

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/0...to-the-public/

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[Kitty77]

Wow, 20 years already!

[miztia]

I won free internet for a year in a contest, and then decided I might as well buy a computer. Brand new Win95 166mhz whoohoo!!
I had no clue what the internet was or what it would do. LOL Couldnt live without it now!