2009 marked the 20th anniversary of http://www.
Conceived by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and his team of scientists. On the Monday of March 13th, 1989, they successfully gave birth to what had now become known as the World Wide Web. "Back then there were 26 web servers. Now there are 10 to the power of 11 pages, that's as many as the neurones in your brain," he noted.
Seven months after the World Wide Web turned 20, the Internet turned 40.
On Wednesday, October 29, 1969, the internet was born. Researchers at the University of California and the Stanford Research Institute - 314 miles away - successfully linked two computers online, when the words "LO", typed on a keyboard at the University of California appeared on the screen in the Stanford Research Institute.
By the mid '80s, 16 million people were said, already began exchanging email. By 2000, some half a billion people started using the Internet. In 2008, Google reported there were more than 1 trillion pages in its search engine.
Professor Leonard Kleinrock who led the team of researchers back in 1969, made the comment, "The internet is a democratising element; everyone has an equivalent voice. There is no way back at this point. We can't turn it off. The internet Age is here."
He also pointed out, "As a teenager the internet is behaving badly, the dark side has emerged. The question is when it grows into a young adult will it get over this period of misbehaving?"
Conceived by Sir Tim Berners-Lee and his team of scientists. On the Monday of March 13th, 1989, they successfully gave birth to what had now become known as the World Wide Web. "Back then there were 26 web servers. Now there are 10 to the power of 11 pages, that's as many as the neurones in your brain," he noted.
Seven months after the World Wide Web turned 20, the Internet turned 40.
On Wednesday, October 29, 1969, the internet was born. Researchers at the University of California and the Stanford Research Institute - 314 miles away - successfully linked two computers online, when the words "LO", typed on a keyboard at the University of California appeared on the screen in the Stanford Research Institute.
By the mid '80s, 16 million people were said, already began exchanging email. By 2000, some half a billion people started using the Internet. In 2008, Google reported there were more than 1 trillion pages in its search engine.
Professor Leonard Kleinrock who led the team of researchers back in 1969, made the comment, "The internet is a democratising element; everyone has an equivalent voice. There is no way back at this point. We can't turn it off. The internet Age is here."
He also pointed out, "As a teenager the internet is behaving badly, the dark side has emerged. The question is when it grows into a young adult will it get over this period of misbehaving?"
