Today is the 25th
Anniversary of the World Wide Web (WWW), one of World’s topmost and greatest
inventions! Twenty-five years ago the World Wide Web was just an idea in a
technical paper presented by a young Computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee, now
Sir Tim Berners-Lee, at the CERN Lab in Switzerland, outlining a way to access
files on linked computers. Mr. Berners-Lee convinced CERN to adopt his system,
demonstrating its usefulness by compiling a Lab phone book into an online index
and so on. The key aspect of the design was that it worked across various
operating systems. This pioneering work
paved the way for a global phenomenon that has touched the lives of billions of
people around the world. He presented this paper on 12th March 1989, which
history has marked as the birthday of World Wide Web.
Thank you Sir Tim
Berners-Lee and World Wide Web!
For more information you
may see these videos on the invention of WWW and its status today (by clicking on the following links):
(Sir Tim Berners-Lee)
(25th
Anniversary of The World Wide Web)
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