Hello World: The Internet Turns 20
Twenty years ago today Tim Berners-Lee proposed linking text together on the Internet and the Web was born.
“I just had to take the hypertext idea,” he once wrote, “and connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol and domain name system ideas and — ta-da! — the World Wide Web.”
His March 1989 proposal to the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) to do just that was accepted after revision in 1990. On August 6, 1991 the first Web page was put online.
So we celebrate an idea today. And celebrate where it’s come in 20 short years.
Cheers to thinkers big and small, and all who turn ideas into actuality.
Michael Cervieri is a ScribeLabs co-founder and an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs where he teaches a course called Tubes, Code and Content. On Twitter, he's @bmunch.
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