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The World Wide Web Hits 20th Birthday

Posted March 17, 2009 9:16 AM by Harry Goldstein
Pathfinder Tags: birthdays CERN tim berners-lee World Wide Web

In March 1989, an obscure 33-year-old science fellow at the Centre Europee de Recherche Nucleaire (CERN) decided to mix ideas from hypertexting with the Internet's transmission control protocol to see what would happen.

Initially, he hoped that he could create an interlinked collection of documents that would enable researchers to quickly view each other's work in progress. He had no inkling that he had come up with the concept that would become the World Wide Web.

While Tim Berners-Lee did not get permission from his superiors at CERN to put his proposal for the "information management" scheme into practice for another year or so, he still counts that initial plan as the birth of the Web.

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03/18/2009 12:23 AM

He opened pandora's box!

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03/18/2009 4:29 PM

I always have trouble accepting that one person ever invented the web....

the internet and bulletin boards have been around for so much longer - I don't reckon one person could be named the 'inventer' much the same as for computers - it was a natural progression...

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03/22/2009 10:21 AM

I always have trouble accepting that one person ever invented the web....

I resent very much this affirmation!

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03/24/2009 12:12 PM

The blurring between the WWW and the Internet is what causes confusion.

The "web" doesn't exist without the hardware that is linked via communication protocols and the infrastructure that supports the transmission of the data. It is a synergy of both hardware and software. The Internet is "linked" hardware. But the linking is done partly through hardware and partly software.

His ideas are integral to the internet as we now know it. It would be more accurate, I think, to distinguish between the Internet and the WWW. The WWW is founded on "hyperlinking". That may indeed be attributed to Mr.Berners-Lee.

(See: http://www.freesoft.org/CIE/Topics/57.htm)
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