Happy 20th Birthday WWW

13th March 2009

[HuskyPup]

I suppose this is the forum to post it!

Today CERN celebrates the www officially turning 20...yikes, and I don't believe I'll find this difficult to remember since my youngest daughter has just had a baby girl at 13.00 hrs on the 13th.

[Rugles]

I just asked the owners if we could all have the day off with pay.

They just laughed ... and said no.

[piatkow]

10 years ago last September I got access to this interwebby thing at work. Most people didn't have it a home as it was so expensive to subscribe to and a PC cost as much as a second hand car. Now you can't even get a job stacking supermarket shelves unless you have access to it.

[Yoshimi]

phew, when I saw this I had a mental block & thought it meant webmaster world was 20 today, my eyes were on stalks!

[Rugles]

interwebby thing

please use the proper terminology ... its the Internets!

[httpwebwitch]

Teh interweb?

[mack]

I remember being in my early teens and seeing a news report about the "next big thing". We would all have computers, they would be linked to the telecom networks and we would be able to retreive all sorts of information and Communicate with anyone who also has a connection.

Obviously the web thing was already happening, but had not yet reached the mainstream and was largle reserved for geeks, but it grabbed my attention.

Back then it was billed as the "information super highway".

Mack.

[Syzygy]

Twenty years ago this month, something happened at CERN that would change the world forever: Tim Berners-Lee handed a document to his supervisor Mike Sendall entitled "Information Management : a Proposal". "Vague, but exciting" is how Mike described it, and he gave Tim the nod to take his proposal forward. The following year, the World Wide Web was born.

Link to the CERN www@20 [info.cern.ch] site