I am a theoretical physicist and currently Director of 
August 07, 2011
Happy birthday, World Wide Web!
Yesterday, August 6th was the 20th anniversary of the World Wide Web, which was built on the foundation of the much older internet. The internet was the name given to the network of linked computers around the globe that was used in the early days primarily by research institutions to transfer data and send email.
The World Wide Web was a radical advance created by Tim Berners-Lee when he standardized the three protocols that now enable users to easily put up information on servers in a manner (using HTML) that other users can use their web browsers to find because of its unique address (the familiar URL), and then transfer that information from the remote servers to their own computers (using HTTP).
The internet and the World Wide Web certainly are the biggest revolutions in my lifetime, the one thing that I simply cannot imagine life without.
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i would also like to say Happy Birth Day to WWW.Really nice post and nice update thanks for posting it
Happy b'day to WWW
Hi Professor,
Nice to know that the WWW has been around for 2 decades now!! Kudos to the great advancement in technology that we would never have imagined!!Yes, we cannot do without it anymore, it has become an active part of our life. Thanks very much for the knowledge.
Cheers
Yvonne
Progress moves at an ever increasing rate, nowhere more so than WWW
The dot com crash seemed to sort out a lot of the chaff and now it is great to see social media becoming so prominent in all spheres of life, something may be not imagined 20 years ago, many people now read their newspapers and watch television online, I would love to know what is next???
Thanks for your thought provoking insight
Tony Selby