… when Sir TB Lee invited us all to play.
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Well, technically this past Friday but close enough.
Via CNET News …
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It was 20 years ago today: The Web
History in the making: Berners-Lee’s original schematic for a client/server model for a distributed hypertext system.
Is it already 20 years since Tim Berners-Lee authored “Information Management: A proposal” and set the technology world on fire?
Back in 1989, Berners-Lee was a software consultant working at the European Organization for Nuclear Research outside of Geneva, Switzerland.
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So he got to work on a document, which is amazing to read with the benefit of 20-20 hindsight. But it would take Berners-Lee another couple of years before he could demo his idea.
Even then, the realization of his theory had to wait until the middle of the 1990s when Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen popularized the notion of commercial Web browsing with Netscape.
And as prescient as the CERN document was, not even Berners-Lee could imagine where his basic design was about to lead.
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