The WWW (World Wide Web) turns 25 this week in March!
Happy Birthday to the World Wide Web!
It was this week 25 years ago that British scientist Tim Berners-Lee was simply trying to share research data with colleagues all over the world. This would become what is infamously known as the World Wide Web! It took two years to complete this project and in August of 1991 it officially launched!
Berners-Lee could have never imagined how much of a worldly impact he was making twenty five years ago but the world thanks him for it!
Happy 25th birthday WWW!
Articles from around the web:
- http://www.cnn.com/2014/03/11/tech/web/early-world-wide-web/
- http://www.mercurynews.com/business/ci_25319197/timeline-25-years-world-wide-web
- http://mashable.com/2014/03/12/world-wide-web-quarter-life-crisis/
My First Experience
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The first thing I remember is AOL dial up. We all like to imitate the dial up sound and the “You’ve got mail” don’t we? I’d get signed in and there was an icon for the World Wide Web on there. My older brother, Ryan, showed me this one day and our conversation went something like this:
Ryan: “You go here (World Wide Web) and it takes you anywhere.”
Me: “Like where?”
Ryan: “Anywhere. Whatever website you want to go to.”
Me: “How do I know what to type in [this was before Google]?”
Ryan: “I don’t know, you will just go to webistes.”
Me: “OK… I’m going back to the chat rooms.”
I didn’t get it but he did! That’s why he’s the brains of these operations!
