“The number of websites has burst above one billion and is growing apace, according to figures updated in real time by online tracker Internet Live Stats,” Agence France-Presse reports.
“Tim Berners-Lee, considered the father of the World Wide Web, touted the milestone on Twitter — one of the most prominent websites in the mushrooming but sometimes murky Internet world,” AFP reports.
“The World Wide Web turned 25 in April this year,” AFP reports. “It was born from an idea in a technical paper from Berners-Lee, then an obscure, young computer scientist at a European physics lab.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Ah, the World Wide Web. Conceived twenty-five years ago by Sir Tim Berners-Lee on Steve Jobs’ NeXTcube running NeXTStep, the forerunner of modern Macs and OS X.
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One billion websites and still nothing on the net. Sorry could not resist.
Oh are there some of you that don’t get the reference. Here let me pull out the /shjtt tag. Yes folks it’s the satire, humor, joke, tall tale tag for those of you who are comedically challenged.
Thought al gore built the internet
He is better known for being awarded the Nobel Prize among others for his “Brilliant work” on the Global Warming.
You forgot the “/s” at the end of you comment.
Berners commented on this.
Al Gore’s contribution was the recognition that the Internet was not /er should not be specific to government and educational institutions and that it should be opened up to everyone. At the time the US government paid heavily for the Internet infrastructure.
I am not crediting Al Gore, but trying to add to the conversation.
Question: Did he actually say he invented it, or are people putting words into his mouth?
It was a quote taken out of context. He has tried to explane what he meant, but that is to long for our short attention span news. He was the first person in congress to get what the internet could do. He pushed to have it opened up. The “invented” part is a debate. The WWW was Sir Berners-Lee idea. Al Gore’s part was getting the US government to pass laws and fund prodjects that made it happen. You don’t have to like him or agree with all of his politics, but he deserves a lot of credit for what he did for the internet.
If you watch the Rose interview of Time (part 2), Charlie asked Tim a question before going into a conference about what he though he should ask.
Tim’s response was, “ask them what comes after the internet”.
Great question. Makes you wonder who’s lab paper that will come out of.
Oh to get a glimpse of that lab paper a few days before it comes out …. and to have some available cash to invest it in the right places.
“The World Wide Web turned 25 in April this year,” AFP reports. “It was born from an idea in a technical paper from Berners-Lee, then an obscure, young computer scientist at a European physics lab.”
“MacDailyNews Take: Ah, the World Wide Web. Conceived twenty-five years ago by Sir Tim Berners-Lee on Steve Jobs’ NeXTcube running NeXTStep, the forerunner of modern Macs and OS X.”
Don’t forget that unnamed European Lab was Cern. I love how they under report the most important inventions/discoveries of all human kind, leaving out little tidbits now and then. The first web browser was the foundation for what we use today, (Firefox), in the 90’s it was Netscape, and prior to that just Mozilla.
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Done!
I finished the web yesterday. 😉