Happy Birthday to the WWW
The World Wide Web is 20 years old today, and the event is being marked by Sir Tim Berners-Lee making a keynote speech in the very place where he developed the idea - the CERN laboratories, near Geneva. In fact, he's due to be speaking right now as I type this.
To mark the event on my blog, which of course only exists because of Sir Tim's idea, the video above is from a speech he gave at a TED conference. He talks about the origin of the web - but also its future.
In addition, here are some other interesting webpages to mark the day:
The world's first ever website has an article on how Sir Tim came to invent the web in March 1989. By clicking on the hyperlinks (it seems odd to think they had to be invented doesn't it?) in the document you can see some screenshots of how the site looked in its very first incarnation.
The website of CERN (Berners-Lee's employer at the time of his invention), has an article on how the web works.
I believe the web has done more to help entrepreneurs than any other development in history, so join me in wishing.... Happy 20th Birthday to the World Wide Web.
(and a big thanks to Tim!)
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