World Wide Web Celebrates 25th Anniversary

[Gerald]

It's the place where we can communicate without speaking, where we can meet people we might never have crossed paths with, where we can shop and bank and watch movies.

It's an easily accessible repository of mankind's knowledge. It's almost hard to believe what the World Wide Web has become in just 25 years.

It was made publicly available on the 6th August 1991 and was the vision of British physicist Tim Berners-Lee, who first came up with the idea in 1989 and successfully tested it in 1990.

Using a NeXT Computer, which can currently be seen at the Science Museum, he developed the world's first website and first web browser, as well as the mechanisms that now power the web such as URLs, HTML and HTTP. [

http://news.sky.com/story/world-wide...rsary-10524799

Yes, the Internet takes as granted today, but it was not too long ago that it was the "Stone Age" but the development is massive.

Note: Saturday 06 August 2016,05:50, UK