1991
British physicist Tim Berners-Lee posted a description of a project he called the "World Wide Web" to an online newsgroup, effectively revolutionizing modern life
Working for CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, he invented his service to allow scientists to easily share and access information via the Internet. Although the infrastructure of the "Net" had been growing for years, it was until then a highly technical system known mostly to academics and scientists like Berners-Lee.
The World Wide Web, as Berners-Lee conceived it, would use the Net to connect
documents with clickable links (hypertext) and make them searchable. Under the encouraging headline "Try it," Berners-Lee's post included information on accessing the first Web server and a Web browser prototype, and gave the address (coordinates) of an example website he'd created. This Web page (the world's very first ) further explained the project he'd nicknamed "W3," explaining how to search the Web and how to build your own page. Academia began using the service first, then industry. In early 1993, Mosaic was released, the first Web-browsing software for PCs and Apple Macintosh computers. Anyone with an Internet connection could now surf, and help create,the Web. Berners-Lee had written in that first post: "The project started with the philosophy that much academic information should be freely available to anyone." Today the word "much" seems quite an understatement, and "academic" almost laughable. But it is astonishing to be reminded that so much of what's on the Web is "freely available" because Berners-Lee created the Web for free.
For his donation, he was named by Time magazine as one of the top 20 thinkers of the 20th century, and was awarded a knighthood in 2004.
"The dream behind the Web
is of a common information space in which we communicate by sharing information.
Its universality is essential:
the fact that a hypertext link can point to anything,
be it personal, local or global, draft or highly polished."
From NPR -The Writer's Almanac 8.6.2011
8 comments:
can't imagine being without it now...
Michelle....is that your painting??? don't know if you
looked, but i posted on windthread a "mark" that is a personal symbol
for me and
LOOOOOOOOK!!!! there is similarity!
Hi Grace
Nice to know we share strokes. All symbols are universal, we're just dipping in to the stream. It's a large painting I did for a show in 2005 - dimensional, with gilded tree bark chips embedded at the bottom, and some layering of acrylic paint mixed with sand laid on in layers with a knife. Send me the URL related to the specific image you are referring to, or the date you posted in case I missed the it.
it's windthread.typepad.com and the post is Thinking about marks symbols of 7~31~11
a beautiful painting. like energy making love
Well thank goodness for this day!
Grace, can you put up a google followers widget so it's easy to connect through google friends connect right to the blog without having to go to google reader. If you do, then your posts drop into my blog dashboard daily and I see them each time you post. I'm still searching for your symbol post.
here's the link to the post for grace:
http://windthread.typepad.com/windthread/2011/07/thinking-about-marks-symbols.html
Thanks-Got it, now "following" her blog too - and wrote to her about the mark we have in common. Meanwhile, time to move on to the new posts, and out into the lovely afternoon here.
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