Friday, March 13, 2009
Happy Birthday World Wide Web!
Yes, I know. You can't remember a time before WWW, but it was created 20 years ago this month. A computer scientist named Tim Berners-Lee looked at the Internet and decided the rapidly expanding global network of interconnected computers could use some organizing. Berners-Lee, now Sir Timothy, wrote a proposal called, "Information Management: A Proposal" and here we are. The Economist celebrates by exploring how the "bland title" changed everything about the way we do science - and how we live. Sir Timothy planned to blow out the candles today.
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Happy Birhtday world wide web.
I thought is was creasted before this time, more than 20 years.
It is growing fastly, and add more information for us.
I can not imagine our life without WWW. How worse it eill be.
It makes the world and information getting easily.
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