According to CERN: twenty years ago this month, something happened 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.
And today there was a celebration at CERN, which consisted of short presentations from Web veterans, a keynote speech from Tim Berners-Lee with a demonstration of the original browser, and a series of presentations from people that Tim believes are doing exciting things with the Web today, which you can see here.
I warn you that it sounds more interesting than it actually was. Which was a group of geeks talking geek. Don't get me wrong, I know I fall on the geekier side of the scale, just not that far to enjoy listening to people reminise about the history and expansion of the Internet. And having long discussions about minor details, such as the colon in web addresses and why the name.
Still, it's amazing to think that 20 years ago, the Internet didn't exist. Along with all the other things which weren't around/possible then...
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