Happy 20th Birthday to the free, open web!
Today Cern is celebrating 20 years of the free, open web. We all know the World Wide Web was created in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee, during his time at Cern. But did you know that it was another four years until the particle physics lab officially declared the web a free for all? On 30 [...]
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The World Wide Web Became Free 20 Years Ago Today
April 30th, 2013 |
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You and I can access billions of Web pages, post blogs, write code for our own killer apps—in short, do anything we want on the Web—all for free! And we’ve enjoyed free reign because 20 years ago, today, Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee and his employer, the CERN physics lab in Geneva, published a statement that [...]
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Yes, Government Researchers Really Did Invent the Internet
July 23rd, 2012 |
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“It’s an urban legend that the government launched the Internet,” writes Gordon Crovitz in an opinion piece in today’s Wall Street Journal. Most histories cite the Pentagon-backed ARPANet as the Internet’s immediate predecessor, but that view undersells the importance of research conducted at Xerox PARC labs in the 1970s, claims Crovitz. In fact, Crovitz implies that, [...]
Keep reading »The Web is (not) dead…if you believe Scientific American , not Wired
November 22nd, 2010 |
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Too often, we don’t appreciate what we have until it’s gone. That could happen with the World Wide Web—unless we protect the basic principles on which the Web is built. Protecting principles is also the key to the Web’s future growth, an argument laid out in "Long Live the Web," written as an exclusive for [...]
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