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08/12/2011
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If you were lucky enough to own a PC back in 1991, it might have looked something like the NeXT
model pictured above. Back then we were listening to band-of-the-moment Nirvana and doing our
best Hannibal Lecter impressions after the release of Silence of the Lambs. Meanwhile, Tim
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Berners-Lee was typing a message on his NeXT PC to announce his latest project - the World Wide
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Web.
Twenty years ago this week, Berners-Lee posted a summary of the project on the CERN International Newsgroup,
Kasey Cassells (Global) - Happy Birthday,
World Wide Web!
I remember an IT lesson I had when I was about 11
in the early 90s, where the teacher showed us an
early MS-DOS computer in action. To illustrate the
exercise...
announcing that soon, with the click of a mouse or by typing a command, we would be able to “access the entire
world of data”. This announcement, as momentous as it seems today, went largely unnoticed. Although the Internet
had been used as a document sharing tool for years in institutions such as Berners-Lee’s workplace, the CERN
physics lab, the World Wide Web project marked the first time web services were publicly available.
The rise of WWW was a slow one. The text-based online world was not accompanied by an image (albeit on a
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separate page) until 1992, and it was not until the arrival of the Mosaic web browser in 1993 that people really
started to take notice - images were finally embedded alongside text and links were made easier to follow. From
1995, Microsoft included its Internet Explorer browser with all new machines, and web browsing as we know it had
arrived.
In the beginning, the web was essentially a library, with sites full of pages of information - all linked together and
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searchable by engines such as AltaVista, Yahoo (both launched 1995), and of course Google (launched 1998). The
web is now so much more than billions of pages of information. Although it’s still amazing that we can find the answer
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to any question within seconds (which British Prime Minister was born in a toilet?), many have built on the original
WWW idea to create services we couldn’t imagine life without today.
Web based applications and services have changed the music, news, publishing and communications industries
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beyond recognition. In the last few years alone, the mobile web has put information in the palm of our hand; cloud
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services have emerged as the solve-it-all tool of choice for businesses, and social media has transformed the way we
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communicate with each other.
In terms of technology, the web is relatively young, and has completely transformed since that day in 1991. Nobody
knows what the web will look like in another 20 years’ time, but it is certain that it will continue to make running our
lives and our businesses easier.
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I remember an IT lesson I had when I was about 11 in the early 90s, where the teacher showed us an early MS-DOS
computer in action. To illustrate the exercise he told us a funny story about a pupil from another class who believed
the devise would give him access to any information he wanted. The teacher said, rather scathingly, “He thought he
could type in any question he wanted and get the answer. Like how far away is the moon…” Then he looked at us all
very sternly and explained that the computer was a database and would only give out the information that had been
put into it. That was twenty years ago… and today it is hard to believe. Now you can type in any question at all and
expect to get the answer! The internet has completely revolutionised communication…
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