Happy Birthday WWW!
A belated happy 15th birthday to the World Wide Web. On August 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee posted the source code for his WorldWideWeb project on an alt.hypertext Usenet discussion group and changed the World forever.
In the historical blink of an eye, the web has transformed business, government, and everyday life far more than any other technology in human history. Beyond the obvious effects of the web revolution, we are now just beginning to experience the benefits of the once underappreciated ideals that drove Mr. Berners-Lee to share his creation with the rest of the World–simple information exchange and open collaboration (e.g., open-source software). Who would have thought in 1991 that Microsoft Windows could be bested by an operating system created by volunteers (Linux) or that individuals could actually have a voice in politics (via the blogs) or that encyclopedias would be threatened by amatuers (Wikipedia)? It’s a brave new World. Thank you, Sir Tim Berners-Lee.
