World Wide Web 20th Anniversary

[Nikos Kartalis]

It is already 20 years since World Wide Web or WWW did it's first steps to the world. 20 years ago, like today on March 13, 1989, Tim Berners-Lee started "Information Management: A proposal" a project that changed the world for ever while is well known today as the Internet.

Berners-Lee could imagine where his basic design was about to lead. To wit, part of his very modest conclusions:

"We should work toward a universal linked information system, in which generality and portability are more important than fancy graphics techniques and complex extra facilities."

"The aim would be to allow a place to be found for any information or reference which one felt was important, and a way of finding it afterwards. The result should be sufficiently attractive to use that it the information contained would grow past a critical threshold, so that the usefulness the scheme would in turn encourage its increased use."

Happy Birthday WWW! Thanks for everything


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