Fifteen years of the World Wide Web
November seems to be the month for anniversaries. Not only does it mark the advent of Windows but it is also the month when the World Wide Web was born five years later. Here is Wikipedia on the origin:
In March 1989, Tim Berners-Lee wrote “Information Management: A Proposal”, which referenced ENQUIRE and described a more elaborate information management system. [3] He published a more formal proposal for the actual World Wide Web on November 12, 1990 [4]. Implementation began on November 13, 1990 when Berners-Lee wrote the first Web page [5] on a NeXT workstation.
Old men reminiscing are boring so I will confine myself to expressing my sense of wonder at how the World Wide Web has affected lives and society everywhere. As more people get broadband, there will be even more changes, especially if we all get the really high speeds that are imminently possible. Combined with wireless and the ever increasing power and miniaturization of hardware, the possibilities are mind-boggling.