20 Years Ago, World Wide Web Was Born

San Jose Mercury News ^ | 03/12/2009 | Elise Ackerman

[nickcarraway]

It all began 20 years ago today with a frustrated 29-year-old programmer who had a passion for order.

Tim Berners-Lee, now famous as the founder of the World Wide Web, was working as an obscure consultant at Cern, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics, in the suburbs of Geneva. Berners-Lee loved the laboratory. It was full of stimulating projects and creative people, but his work, and the work of his colleagues, was stymied by the lack of institutional knowledge.

[wastedyears]

Thank you Al Gore.

(I hope you all know I don’t need a /sarc tag)

[conservative_crusader]

I thought Al Gore invented the internet?

[Always Right]

[LiteKeeper]

It wasn’t Algore? next you will tell me there is no Easter Bunny!

[devane617]

Will the real ManBearPig please stand up.

[Plutarch]

Is it just me, or does the link not work?

[humblegunner]

[The Californian]

I can’t get it to work either.

[Fiddlstix]

Ping

[spookie]

The research net used by universities and DoD labs was the foundation for the internet as we know it. It had been limited to only those sites approved by DOD in the 1970’s. the protocol used in internet was the backbone of this net.

[deannadurbin]

Thank God AL BORE never became president. I still remember Chris Matthews crying when AL BORE made his concession speech.

[steve-b]

Is it just me, or does the link not work?

It's Al Gore's fault.

[psjones]

That was going to be my line, but you beat me to it.

[Dallas59]

[Domandred]

Tim Berners-Lee

.... um

[HereInTheHeartland]

Tim Berners-Gore

[Retired Greyhound]

The interwebs are just a bunch of tubes with phone numbers, ya know?

[Republic_of_Secession.]

Though the internet itself is much older dating 20 years before that.

[JD91]

20 years...........seems like yesterday when Al was busy working on inventing the internet and the globe was utterly cold - so cold that he had to say inside and “invent” things!