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Happy 20th Birthday WWW. Here’s What Your Creator Has Planned.

zee Written on 13th March 2009                                                                                                              5 COMMENTS some text
Zee, Editor in Chief at The Next Web, Principal at WeDoCreative.

Happy 20th Birthday WWW. Heres What Your Creator Has Planned.Twenty years ago, a young unknown scientist called Tim Berners-Lee created a document titled “Information Management: A Proposal”. Berners-Lee, based out of a laboratory near Geneva at the time, had put together a – albeit rough – outline of what the World Wide Web is today.

Initially proposed to create a way for people to keep track of each other whilst working on major projects, little did the now Sir Tim Berners-Lee realise that the tools ambitions  would prove fruitful on a GLOBAL scale.

Now based out of MIT and leading the World Wide Web Consortium, Sir Timothy plays a vital role in the web’s future development and standards. Today however, we hope he’s celebrating and has acknowledged, for at least a minute, how much of an impact he has really had. Sir Timothy Berners-Lee, we salute you.

Tim Berners-Lee Talks of The Future of the Web

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The World’s Very First Webserver

Boris Written on 16th September 2008                                                                                                              4 COMMENTS some text
Boris Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Serial Internet Entrepreneur

The Worlds Very First Webserver

This is a photo of the very first Web Server. It was used by Tim Berners-Lee (Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee actually) while he worked at CERN. As you can see the first web server was a NeXT box. NeXT was a company founded by Steve Jobs after he left Apple. The company never took off and was acquired by Apple when they were looking for a new operating system. The first web browser, developed by Berners-Lee was called WorldWideWeb and was developed on NeXTSTEP, the NeXT development toolset.

They (Herb Brody) say that telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror. But I still think it is good to look back on how things got started and where they ended up since then. The first website was put online in August 1991. Just think about how much has happened since then and try to imagine how much we can expect from the next 17 years…

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