Twenty years ago, computers were either the size of a basketball court or they were novelties that we played with. Twenty years ago, we got our news at 6 p.m. on television or in the morning newspaper. Twenty years ago, if you wanted to buy a sweater, you drove from store to store until you spent as much on gas as you did on the sweater.And then 20 years ago today, Tim Berners-Lee wrote a paper that laid out his thoughts for the World Wide Web. That one paper would be the seed that changed the way we communicate, shop, gather friends, date and do business. That one paper arguably held one of the most important ideas of the 20th century.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/031309-hurrah-berners-lee-web-celebrates-20th.htmlWeb founder looks to big changes
The founder of the World Wide Web says the pace of innovation on the web is increasing all the time.Marking the 20th anniversary of his proposal to create the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee said “new changes are going to rock the world even more”.The future of the web lies in mobile phones, he said at the Swiss research centre where he was working when he proposed the web.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7943319.stmCern celebrates 20 years of the web
The European Centre for Nuclear Research, or Cern, on Friday celebrated 20 years since the conception of the World Wide Web.Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who was working at Cern at the time, first proposed the idea of the World Wide Web in March 1989, when he submitted a paper entitled Information Management: A Proposal to his supervisor Mike Sendell.
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Hurrah Berners-Lee! Web celebrates 20th anniversary
Twenty years ago, computers were either the size of a basketball court or they were novelties that we played with. Twenty years ago, we got our news at 6 p.m. on television or in the morning newspaper. Twenty years ago, if you wanted to buy a sweater, you drove from store to store until you spent as much on gas as you did on the sweater.