Proper anniversary or not, all the talk of Web history got me thinking about just how much the concept of connected hypertext pages has changed the way we all process and share information. Berners-Lee didn't invent the term "hypertext," but he did invent the HyperText Transport Protocol (HTTP) along with the network it powered: the World Wide Web. This let him turn his ideas about theoretical decentralized information networks into an actual for-real non-theoretical decentralized information network. Berners-Lee's place of employment happened to be CERN (the European Organization for Nuclear Research), which meant that he had access to a lot of neat technology. Still, it is true that on March 12, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee wrote Information Management: A Proposal, a paper which discussed his observations on how data flowed around the network at his place of employment and which suggested ways to improve that flow. That's not entirely accurate, actually-the "World Wide Web" wasn't usable by anyone outside of CERN until Aug( Internaut Day, as it's called). If any day is properly the Web's "anniversary," it's that one. According to a whole lot of media sources, the World Wide Web is turning 25 today.
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