...Well, sort of. An article by Dr. James Gillies at BBC Technology News says the Web has many birthdays:
March 1989, when Tim Berners-Lee handed his boss a short document entitled Information Management: a Proposal, is one.
Christmas of the following year, when the Web was up and running on two computers, is another.
But perhaps the most important Web anniversary of all is 30 April 1993.
That's the day that Cern put the web in the public domain, thereby ensuring that the world would have a single system for accessing the Internet....
Now, Web innovator Tim Berners-Lee is encouraging people to join The Web We Want Campaign at webwewant.org, to help ensure an open, universal Web in the future.
Whenever the Web was born, it sure has changed photography in a huge way.
Mike
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Alan Hill: "The Web is the spin-off from the construction of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN, and it had to happen long before the LHC's design was completed. Berners-Lee and his colleagues realised that the LHC would generate so much data that new information handling procedures would be required to make the project possible.
"The discovery of the Higgs boson by the teams at CERN and the discoveries that they will probably make in the future with the LHC are unlikely to be as significant as this spinoff."
So one would naturally wonder when and what was the first photo ever to appear on the web...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Les_Horribles_Cernettes_in_1992.jpg
Posted by: hugh crawford | Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 12:53 AM
Web, is that the thing spiders weave to catch prey? Wel that has probably been around from at least 165 million years ago. Or is the thing economists and advertisers use to catch unweary customers. That is so young who care how old it is?
Posted by: Ed | Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 03:21 PM
Whenever the Web was born, it sure has changed photography in a huge way.
should be:
Whenever the Web was created and commercialised, it sure has trivialised photography in a huge way.
Greets, Ed.
Posted by: Ed | Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 03:23 PM
People, especially a certain self-promoting politician, tend to forget the history of TCP/IP and the Internet. It's not like we had no network before then, nor a communications protocol. We had many. It wasn't until 2004-2005 that one started emerging as the market leader.
We could have just as easily ended up with an internetworking system based on the work of a dozen different companies. The concept of the Internet or World Wide Web was actually around for a long time, but the majority of the communications protocols needed fleshing out, which they were as version after version came out.
The market selected the winner. It could be argued that the market selected the wrong one. We've been trying to fix and work around the flaws ever since. It scaled well, but not without grief and costly stretch marks.
Posted by: Ken N | Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 05:05 PM
The computer industry has so much (Apple II -> IBM PC; Mac OS -> windows; iPod, iphone! ipad -> samsung) debt to Job I always thought may be the Internet is not related to his. But as said, the ease of the programming using Next is one of the reason why Lee got the web server out.
RIP, Steve.
Posted by: Dennis Ng | Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 07:09 PM