Internauts, today we celebrate this glorious technology that brings us all together!
It gave rise to the internet as we know and use it today.
The internet and the World Wide Web are not interchangeable.
The internet was first connected in 1969, and refers to the data pipe that carries information between nodes.
Think of the World Wide Web as neurons, and the internet as synapses.
In 1980, Berner-Lee created a personal database of people and software models at CERN.
It was here he deployed the use of hypertext, where each page linked to another existing page.
And in April 1993,CERN announced the decisionto make the underlying code for the web royalty-free in perpetuity.
Some, includingBerners-Lee himself, quibble about the actual birthday of the World Wide Web.
Others regard August 6 as the Web’s birthday.
“The decision to make the web an open system was necessary for it to be universal.
you might’t propose that something be a universal space and at the same time keep control of it.”
Here’s to the next 25 years of scintillating cat gifs.
