Happy Birthday World Wide Web!
15
years ago today, Tim
Berners-Lee publicly released his WWW project onto the Internet. According to Wikipedia:
"On August 6, 1991, he [TBL] posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. This date also marked the debut of the Web as a publicly available service on the Internet."
As the Wikipedia states, this was the point when hypertext was married to the Internet.
The original alt.hypertext posting is still available, thanks to Google Groups:
"The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system."
Also note that Berners-Lee made available the first Web browser - "prototype (very alpha test) simple line mode browser" - and the first hypertext editor. For, you know, reading and writing on the Web ;-)
Via Alex and Justin and Jeremy, who points to a BBC timeline.
2 TrackBacks
TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.readwriteweb.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/2707
FOLLOW RWW ON TWITTER
RECENT JOBS
Comments
Subscribe to comments for this post OR Subscribe to comments for all ReadWriteWeb posts
yo man
Long live WWW
Posted by: kedaar | August 7, 2006 3:31 AM
:) I've been online half that time :D
Posted by: Ivan Minic | August 7, 2006 3:54 AM
This WWW thing seems lame. I don't think it's going to catch on.
Posted by: Nick | August 7, 2006 5:21 AM
This should be a national holiday. No joke.
Posted by: Walter Stevenson | August 7, 2006 6:44 AM
very good news indeed.
Posted by: julie | August 7, 2006 6:53 AM
I have been online for 13 years thanks to Mr. Lee
Posted by: digitalsista | August 7, 2006 6:57 AM
respect! look how big this new internet thing has become
Posted by: Dave | August 7, 2006 7:00 AM
Yes, and before that there was, in 1960, Ted Nelson and Project Xanadu, and in 1962, Marshall McLuhan and "The Gutenberg Galaxy" (still in print and still a fascinating read).
We are still dealing with issues that Nelson and McLuhan discussed. Forty years ... technology takes time to become absorbed into culture.
Posted by: cassio | August 7, 2006 7:11 AM
I kinda miss the old BBS's though...
Posted by: Captain Jason | August 7, 2006 7:11 AM
dont u just hate the way that internet has taken over our daily lives, i hate it and i wish it was dead. die internet! die!
Posted by: world wide suckers | August 7, 2006 7:22 AM
Gopher pwns HTTP.
;)
Posted by: Ian Monroe | August 7, 2006 7:24 AM
oh my god, the web is such a fucking USELESS tool, i cant understand why you people are all so happy that its been around for 15 years already. i mean, it just invites a bunch of hackers to take over your whole computer, while all it does for you is that it gives access to some shitty online games and porn, thats basically it. we were so much better off in the good old days before computers were around, i cant believe all you geeky motherfuckers have become corrupted by comps. the PC takes all your free time, and ruin your eyes. i wish the fucking internet had never been invented, goddamit.
Posted by: ihatetheinternet | August 7, 2006 7:28 AM
HAPPY BIRTHDAY Mr. Internet!
Posted by: antonio ciccarone | August 7, 2006 7:39 AM
I remember reading that in class that very day and going to the lab to try it all out...We had no idea what it would become...
Posted by: Kevin | August 7, 2006 7:55 AM
Ugh.. that's not when the internet was invented, it was when the World Wide Web was invented... there's a difference.
Posted by: Max Kelley | August 7, 2006 8:15 AM
Happy Birthday.
I feel the web should be used more often to share research data.
cancer , aids, research should be all coordinated to help people find solution to these killer diseases.
microsoft is doing a great job by donation so much money, where is google and other tech companies ??
Posted by: wellwisher | August 7, 2006 8:27 AM
I think the "WWW" picture should have a Union Jack background. I love you Tim.
Posted by: Luke Labern | August 7, 2006 8:56 AM
Struff before the web was cool too - using a hayes 3/12 modem to connect to a WildCat BBS - and downloading ASCII pron pictures to print on a tele-type like printer.
I used to love chicks with nice @'s!
Posted by: Old Timer | August 7, 2006 12:09 PM
wow.
that is THE day I was born.
and my birthday was yesterday of course.
wow.
i never knew this.
that's amazing.
Posted by: micah | August 7, 2006 5:09 PM
Happy birthday,WWW from Velipoja.
Posted by: Velipoja | August 8, 2006 2:07 AM
And all this time I thought Al Gore invented it all.
Posted by: Dick | August 8, 2006 4:54 AM
Happy B-day WWW!
Posted by: J Bruce | August 9, 2006 10:35 AM
Long Live The World Wide Web . . . 15 wonderful years of the internet . . . Just think how big the web has become . . . I use it daily to find my news and to socialize . . check e-mail . . . watch my fave Tech Shows . . . broadband has made for many improvements . . . and portable media devices being able to connect to it is awesome too . . cell phone and data networks connecting the the internet makes it an integral part of everyday life . . . aww . . the wonders of the World Wide Web . . . Long Live the Internet . . .
Posted by: David O'Mara | August 12, 2006 5:29 PM
Happy Birthday!!
Posted by: Wade Allen | August 23, 2006 7:49 AM
Damn, it's a couple of months older than me. Well, happy birthday. Who wants cake?
Posted by: alexjohnc3 | September 2, 2006 7:15 PM