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Happy 20th Birthday, World Wide Web

2009-03-13T06:50:17Z

On March 13th, 2009 the World Wide Web will turn 20 years old. Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented this world-changing layer on top of the Internet on this day in 1989. It's hard to overstate the impact this young technology has had already and it's even more exciting to think about where it's going in the future.

Berners-Lee has some great ideas about where the web should go next. His vision is of a major advance that could serve as the foundation for innovations that we can't even imagine today.

]]> One year ago Berners-Lee said that all the pieces needed to build a new Semantic Web are now in place. Last month he gave an impassioned talk at the high-profile TED conference about a related concept called Linked Data, a set of ideas he outlined in 2006. The gist of the idea is that we need every institution that can do so to put raw data in a standardized format up on the web.

What's so exciting about raw data? We'll defer to Berners-Lee's 15 minute explanation at this year's TED conference. The video of his talk will be posted on the TED website early Friday morning, but ReadWriteWeb readers can check it out now.

Thank you Tim, for what you've done for the world already.

Comment from George Tziralis on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T07:10:02Z

20 years of revolutionizing humanity :)

Comment from Marshall Kirkpatrick on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T07:10:32Z

as a teenager! who'd have thought it possible?

Comment from Eğitişim Kariyer Enstitüsü on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T07:37:38Z

As an social media marketer ı just work on Web, what if there not be it is? I guess nothing.

Comment from Igor Poltavskiy on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T08:23:49Z

"...the World Wide Web was begun in 1992 by the English physicist Sir Tim Berners-Lee, now the Director of the World Wide Web Consortium, and Robert Cailliau, a Belgian computer scientist, while both were working at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. In 1990, they proposed building a "web of nodes" storing "hypertext pages" viewed by "browsers" on a network,[1] and released that web in 1992...." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Wide_Web :)

Comment from Timo Heuer on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T08:49:33Z

Happy birthday Web :)

Comment from Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T08:57:58Z

I remember building websites with Mosaic Version 1.0 'way 'way back when the earth's crust cooled, and using the text-based browser 'lynx' on my sparc station. Wow, the times they have achanged.....

Comment from Jeff Crites on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T09:09:21Z

Blowing out some candles today. I remember 1989 well. No cell phones, no internet ... I think the most cutting edge thing we did for entertainment was play some video golf game at a local pub.

Comment from Jeff Crites on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T09:11:28Z

... well, the internet might've existed ... but we had no clue it did. I meant to say "no web" (didn't start surfing til mid 90s when Netscape Navigator came out)

Comment from Jean-Marc Liotier on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T09:47:16Z

Time Berners-Lee's proposal at http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html mentions March 1989, but where did you find the March 13th date ?

Comment from Paul Villacorta on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T09:49:22Z

Thanks to Sir Tim!

Comment from Lame Spirale on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T10:12:01Z

Everybody has to do link data, but how ?
Should i read all http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/ documentation ?

I was searching a way of doing a semanting vocabulary for music theory but it's hard to get started. Which mailing list to follow ? which group to ask ? Is it already done ?

Comment from Sumeet on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T11:32:42Z

H BDay!
The Youth of Internet will be unleashed now.
I am sure next 10 yrs will overshadow what happened in last 20 yrs.

Comment from Nicolas Cynober on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T12:07:45Z

Row Data Now !

Comment from Dorian Muthig on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T12:41:53Z

It's my 20th birthday today, too!

Comment from Tom Heath on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T12:51:49Z

@Lame Spirale:

Check out http://linkeddata.org/ where there are links to a number of tutorials on the subject, in particular: http://linkeddata.org/docs/how-to-publish

On the subject of creating vocabularies, also check out the VoCamp series of events, info at: http://vocamp.org/ . There is also a mailing list and IRC channel for the VoCamp community, details on the wiki: http://vocamp.org/wiki/Main_Page#VoCamp_Mailing_List_and_IRC_Channel

HTH,

Tom.

Comment from Nicolas on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T13:25:52Z

it all started at CERN (of Large Hadron Collider fame...) in Geneva, a great example of international collaboration between scientists to discover the secrets of the universe's origin:

"There are many theories as to what will result from these collisions, but what's for sure is that a brave new world of physics will emerge from the new accelerator, as knowledge in particle physics goes on to describe the workings of the Universe. "

Comment from Markus on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T14:36:23Z

Another wonderful invention BY A MAN that's helped civilization.

Why don't we have 'Thank Men for Civilization Day'?

Comment from Varun Mahajan on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T15:35:32Z

Kudos to the 'Killer App' of all times.

Comment from Curt on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T15:55:03Z

I remember when the World Wide Web and I used to hang out at Club Bag watching Blood on the Saddle and trading drinks from a 40 of Rheinlander. Seemed like anything was possible then.

Comment from GoEverywhere Team on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T16:22:00Z

Happy Birthday to the WWW! Life would be an amazingly different place without it. Could you imagine life as we know it today without all of this? Online shopping, social media, email and instant messaging. It's amazing how much has changed in such a short period of time.

Comment from Annalise on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T18:21:28Z

Happy Birthday World Wide Web! Sincerely, eZanga.com

Comment from Jon on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T20:50:05Z

I kept tellin him, 'Tim', I said, 'you gotta make this text red!' But he said blue was the way to go and so here we are...

Heh hehheh - but what color is it AFTER you click his super hyper links?

Oh...

Comment from Jon on 2009-03-13

2009-03-13T20:51:24Z

See?! The guys at RWW know a great color when they see it!

Comment from steel pipe on 2009-03-14

2009-03-14T07:37:46Z

We'll defer to Berners-Lee's go

Comment from venkat on 2009-03-14

2009-03-14T13:15:03Z

Thanks to Tim without him we would have not explored this much without Internet All people are now addicted to Internet

Comment from John A Robb on 2009-03-14

2009-03-15T02:56:23Z

I first connected to the Internet, well I only new the web then so I guess I really got connected to the www in 1996. Nothing strange about that except I thought I'd missed the whole thing. I thought it was over. I'm glad it wasn't!

Comment from Mike on 2009-03-14

2009-03-15T05:36:01Z

Happy B-Day WWW. And because of you, http://www.freegovtjobs.com is able to provide access to 1,000's of vacant government jobs located across the United States.

Comment from boya on 2009-04-07

2009-04-07T15:25:45Z

I remember when boya the World Wide Web and I used to hang out at Club Bag watching Blood on the Saddle and boya trading drinks from a 40 of Rheinlander. Seemed like anything was possible then.

Comment from HD LCD monitor on 2009-07-08

2009-07-09T04:27:11Z

thanks.

Comment from cephe kaplama on 2009-07-09

2009-07-09T10:42:54Z

The Youth of Internet will be unleashed now.

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2009-07-10T21:18:31Z

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Comment from 乐清网站制作 on 2009-07-16

2009-07-17T02:39:05Z

good.thanks for this.

Comment from cephe kaplama on 2009-07-18

2009-07-18T10:02:40Z

Great.Why don't we have 'Thank Men for Civilization Day'?

Comment from söve on 2009-08-11

2009-08-11T14:43:32Z

Great post.Thanks a lot.

Comment from Green Tea Purity on 2009-08-27

2009-08-27T17:38:11Z

Wow, how time fly when you have ADSL (0-:

Comment from grow taller on 2009-08-28

2009-08-28T10:55:16Z

Could you imagine life as we know it today without all of this?

Comment from ROSE on 2009-09-28

2009-09-28T21:24:23Z

HELP! HELP! HELP! HAITIANS IN THE BAHAMAS NEED DIRE HELP, THE HAITIANS BAHAMIANS ARE BEING DENIED THE ONLY DOCUMENT THAT MADE THEM PART OF THE COUNTRY. NOW THE GOVERNMENT HAS ASKED FOR A HAITIAN POLITICIAN TO COME AND SIGN A DOCUMENT INDICATING THAT ALL HAITIAN BORN CHILDREN WILL BE GRANTED A HAITIAN PASSPORT INSTEAD OF THE REGULAR CERTIFICATE OF IDENTITY.

THE HAITIANS ARE BEING DRAGGED OUT OF THEIR HOMES WEARING ONLY THE CLOTHES ON THEIR BACKS AND SOMETIMES NOTHING AT ALL, THEIR BELONGINGS STOLEN BY OFFICERS, NEWBORN BABIES ARE TAKEN OUT OF THEIR HOMES WITH NOTHING BUT WHATS ON THEIR LITTLE FRAGILE BODIES, THE HAITIANS ARE BEATEN, MISTREATED, SLEEP ON THE COLD CEMENT AT THE DETENTION CENTER, MOST TIMES THE OFFICERS REFUSED BASICS NEEDS BROUGHT TO THEM AT THE CENTER, SOMEONE NEED TO GET THIS MESSAGE TO THE PROPER AUTHORITIES, ANYBODY GET HELP FOR THE HAITIANS AND THEIR CHILDREN IN THE BAHAMAS.

Comment from RegCure Review on 2009-10-08

2009-10-08T21:27:29Z

It's amazing how time goes so fast, I remember downloading in a 3 kb/sec speed.....

Comment from tatil rehberi on 2009-10-26

2009-10-27T01:21:27Z

Happy birthday Web :)