
I'm a little confused. I'm pretty sure I saw on AOL news the other day that The Internet is celebrating it's 16th birthday. I couldn't find the story again to place the link here, but while searching for it I came across all sorts of ages for the Internet. I wanted to clarify this birthday thing so I went to the people that know:
WORLD WIDE WEB CONSORTIUM (or W3C). On their site I found a
history section that shows a timeline starting from 1945 up to 1995. So after reading that everything became as clear as mud. You ever heard the saying "
the more you read the less you know"?
From what I can gather, is that the 16 year age seems to relate to the term '
WorldWideWeb', the name
Tim Berners-Lee gave to the first web client and server he wrote in 1990. Although that would make it 17 surely?
Hhhhhhanywayyy! Whatever its '
official' age, it has evolved into something very different from its beginnings. Here is a great video of the early days. Not quite as bad as the picture above on the right, but kids today viewing this video might think so. Hehe.
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