Posted by Migo on Aug 7th, 2006
CNN reported on this, as well as a few other places. Not as many as I’d expect though.
Yesterday marked the 15th birthday of the world wide web. Tim Berners-Lee invented the very first web server and browser in 1990. He didn’t release the software publicly until 1991, which was when the web first went worldwide. Later in ‘91, the first web server outside of Europe went online. By 1992 there were 26 servers up and running, Tim Berners-Lee put up his first web page in the same year.
In April of 1993, Mosaic came along. It was the first browser to run on Windows and offered a simple point-and-click interface. This was also the month that Cern, the company Berners-Lee worked for, was convinced to make web technology free to the public. In June, the HTML language we all know and love was released. Followed, at the end of 1993, by the first webcam.
In 1994, the BBC its first website for their TV program, The Net, President Bill Clinton launched whitehouse.gov, and Netscape Navigator made its debut.
I could go on and on, but I won’t. The proof of the impact of the worldwide web is all around us today. It’s huge and it’s only getting bigger. So, go, look around, make yourself at home, and maybe make a page yourself. After all, if today isn’t the day to do it, I don’t know when would be.
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