The World Wide Web turns 20

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CommanderFrank

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Happy Anniversary World Wide Web….or may I call you WWW? :D Today marks the 20 anniversary of releasing the Web to the general public. Prior to that momentous day, the Web had been restricted to the CERN physics laboratory and the scientist working there. Boy, how you have grown.

By making the web openly available and royalty free, it quickly advanced to a globally used service, no longer the secret of the technologically minded.
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Oh wow, I've been on the web for over half of it's life! ;)
 
pimppride said:
shouldn't we be thanking Al Gore? :)
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Darn. You beat me too it. I was going to respond with the wise cracking comment:

God bless for Al Gore for having invented the internet single handedly in that physics lab that one afternoon.
 
Al Gore may have invented the Internet, but the guys at CERN invented the WWW......you give Gore way too much credit. :D

WBurchnall said:
Darn. You beat me too it. I was going to respond with the wise cracking comment:

God bless for Al Gore for having invented the internet single handedly in that physics lab that one afternoon.
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First got on it in 1997 with dial-up. Did the AOHell thing for a month and couldn't stand it. Then in 2000 I got broadband and my jaw dropped at the sheer speed of it. It was a whopping 1.5 Mbps! :)
 
I got my first internet connection when I was 11 in 2001, on my one-year-old Pentium 3 667Mhz.

It was 56k dial-up, until in 2003, I got 512k ADSL.

In 2004, I upgraded to 768k. In 2006 to 2.5M. In 2009 to 7M. And in 2010 to 16M.

Then I went back down to 12M because it's cheaper and I don't need the extra 4M.

Wow, I've literally been here half of my life and half of its life.

I'm the same age as the internet :)
 
Got my own computer back in the mid 80's and on the net probably around 91/92.. I feel like an old fart now.
 
Think of all the incredible technology used to enable 4chan. It boggles the mind.
 
Time to pop a bottle and celebrate!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks WWW for keeping us all connected and taking it to another level!!!!!!!!!!
 
Porn has been flowing freely on the internet since before the WWW existed. Yes, there was an internet before the WWW.
 
Enjoy it while you can, next year the WWW can legally drink so expect problems ever friday night ;)

And for those interested I want to point out the internet was acctually created in 1968 (ARPANET) but was research/military (decommissioned in 1990) untill, as we all know, Al Gore passed the legislation to create the intratructure to create the WWW we know today.
 
Really only 20 years? Christ that makes me feel old.

I remember the days of browsing through a shell with lynx.
 
WWW is celebrating it's 20th birthday.. again??

Mmmm.. wonder what these articles were celebrating back in 2009??

"On March 13th, 2009 the World Wide Web will turn 20 years old. Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented this world-changing layer on top of the Internet on this day in 1989"
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/happy_20th_birthday_world_wide_web.php

"CERN on March 13 celebrates the 20th anniversary of a proposal entitled, "Information Management: A Proposal," by Tim Berners-Lee, which would become the blueprint for the World Wide Web"
http://www.scientificamerican.com/report.cfm?id=web-20-anniversary

"In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee, an Oxford-educated computer scientist then working at CERN in Switzerland, proposed a new system for managing online information. Berners-Lee envisaged a system in which hypertext documents could be linked together. By clicking on a 'hot spot' (or link) in one document, the user would be automatically transferred to the document that was referenced in that link. What's more, Berners-Lee suggested that documents could be linked together without any central control or coordination. The proposal was accepted, and a year later Berners-Lee finished the first ever browser. He named it WorldWideWeb (with no spaces). It ran on a NeXT cube computer, and despite its lack of colour and absence of in-line graphics, the fundamentals would be familiar to today's web users".
http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/web/celebrating-20-years-of-the-world-wide-web-615150

"The modern day internet, better known as the "World Wide Web", which has completely transformed the way we live, has entered into its twenties today as many will mark the anniversary. Its inception dates back to 13 March 1989, when a computer scientist, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, at the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, popularly known as CERN Laboratory, presented a paper containing means and methods by which particles physics scientists could easily share and find out essential electronics documents".
http://www.itproportal.com/2009/03/13/world-wide-web-20-years-old-today/

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Heard Leo Laporte on his "Tech Guy" podcast this past weekend mention without elaboration that the WWW was 21 years old.. perhaps he was basing the WWW birthday as December 25, 1990 because of this..

In the fall of 1990, Berners-Lee took about a month to develop the first web browser on a NeXT computer, including an integrated editor that could create hypertext documents. He deployed the program on his and Cailliau's computers, and they were both communicating with the world's first web server at info.cern.ch on December 25, 1990 http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_lee.htm
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This does make for an interesting question.. when does something really begin.. when it is just an idea in the womb or a full fledged conceived and working product. Apparently some thought 2 years ago that Berners-Lee's March 13, 1989 proposal was the birth of WWW, while some others believe it is when the actual first web server was activated. And for those celebrating it on August 6, 1991, it is when Berners-Lee "posted a notice on the alt.hypertext newsgroup about where to download their web server and line mode browser, making it available around the world. Web servers started popping up around the globe almost immediately" http://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_lee.htm - Apparently, like Google's birthday http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/2010/0927/Google-and-the-birthday-mystery, there may be more than 1 answer.

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