Hip Hip Hooray!
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to you,
Happy birthday to the worldwide web!
Happy birthday to you!
Today CERN (the European Organisation for Nuclear Research) will celebrate 20 years of the web, a system developed by their employee Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.
Not to be confused with the ‘internet’ (which has been around in differing forms for closer to 50 years) the worldwide web is a “…network of content servers that allow information to be shared in specially formatted documents, hosted on systems connected to each other via the internet” (from iTnews Australia, own emphasis).
What was once a revolutionary file sharing and document organisation system has transformed the way we exist in the world. Using the web to share ideas, thoughts, and opinions, via images, text and video has changed the way we position ourselves in the world, changed the way we read (rather than from start to finish in a book we can read sideways, forward, backwards, and into other media from the starting document) and even changed the way we network and conduct business!
When you head out for your work drinks this afternoon, be sure to say a quick toast in celebration of the birthday of the web – we owe it so much!
Signing off,
Louise.
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