Happy 20th Birthday, World Wide Web
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.
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20 years of revolutionizing humanity :)
Posted by: George Tziralis
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March 13, 2009 12:10 AM
as a teenager! who'd have thought it possible?
Posted by: Marshall Kirkpatrick
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March 13, 2009 12:10 AM
As an social media marketer ı just work on Web, what if there not be it is? I guess nothing.
"...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 :)
Happy birthday Web :)
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.....
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.
... 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)
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 ?
Thanks to Sir Tim!
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 ?
H BDay!
The Youth of Internet will be unleashed now.
I am sure next 10 yrs will overshadow what happened in last 20 yrs.
Row Data Now !
It's my 20th birthday today, too!
@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.
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. "
Another wonderful invention BY A MAN that's helped civilization.
Why don't we have 'Thank Men for Civilization Day'?
Kudos to the 'Killer App' of all times.
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.
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.
Happy Birthday World Wide Web! Sincerely, eZanga.com
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...
See?! The guys at RWW know a great color when they see it!
We'll defer to Berners-Lee's go
Thanks to Tim without him we would have not explored this much without Internet All people are now addicted to Internet
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!
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.
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.
thanks.
The Youth of Internet will be unleashed now.
http://swagbucks.com/refer/issaareef please join this is a great search engine
good.thanks for this.
Great.Why don't we have 'Thank Men for Civilization Day'?
Great post.Thanks a lot.
Wow, how time fly when you have ADSL (0-:
Could you imagine life as we know it today without all of this?
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It's amazing how time goes so fast, I remember downloading in a 3 kb/sec speed.....
Happy birthday Web :)
Seemed like anything was possible then.
39.Happy birthday Web :)
Happy birthday World Wide Web :)
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42.Happy birthday World Wide Web :)